Water Bill for What?

We guess this is one way for Conehead to balance the budget:

• A senior citizen's vacant home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood racked up a staggering $233,000 water bill, despite not having any plumbing for years.

  Diane Carli, 82, said the city of Chicago is threatening to garnish her pension, and she's looking for help because the Water Department isn't backing down on an outrageous bill she says is clearly an error.

  You don't need 20/20 vision to see this house in the Back of Yards neighborhood is abandoned.

The City contacted her and told her she needed a new water meter installed, even with no plumbing in the house, and then proceeded to bill her for half-a-million gallons of water that they claim the meter tracked over six months.

After repeated complaints, the City replaced the meter with a new one, which then registered ZERO gallons of water used. 

But the bill still stands.