Bus driver a mobile lottery loser

A POLISH bus driver has been sacked for sending 38,000 text messages on his company mobile phone in a losing effort to win a contest jackpot.

By The Newsroom

Published 27th Jul 2007, 01:00 BST

Leszek Wojcik, from the north-western city of Slupsk, ran up a bill of about 94,000 zlotys (16,500) with his text messages while trying to win a 100,000-zloty (17,600) SMS contest that ended on 30 June, the city's transport spokesman, Hubert Boba, said.

He explained that a bus driver's monthly company phone bill is supposed to be limited to 15 zlotys (2.60).

Wojcik sent an average of 1,200 SMS text messages a day, each costing 2.4 zlotys (42p).