when i was 15 i ran up a £400 ($573) bill on my cell phone and at the time the contract was still under my dad's name because he worked for the cell phone company. He got me an iPhone 3 before it even came out. He saw my bill for that month and used my mom's hairbrush on my bare bottom... And he said the phone company had cut off my signal and to get it back i'd have to pay half the bill up front... £200 ($286) was two months worth of allowance money for me...