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Ever gotten a bill in the mail so ridiculously high that it makes you wish you could rally together a ragtag army of disgruntled miscreants and take down the corporation that charged you "Viking style"?

Sure, we all have. So why don't you? Gathering an army takes time and most of us don't have many friends willing to take an arrow to the chest for us, much less a check. Arrows, while cheaper than bullets, can add up and aren't tax deductible. And I'm pretty sure that any looting and/or pillaging is a federal crime.

Mythbuster Adam Savage, however, has both the manpower and weaponry to pull just such a caper and he didn't have to bury one friend in a fiery ship at sea to do it.

The Discovery Channel star and geek god was using his AT&T USB wireless computer connection, the one that allows Bill Curtis to be faster than Floyd Mayweather without the use of medications in strange paper bags marked "flax seed oil," during a trip to Canada.

He discovered the awesome evil of roaming charges when he returned stateside and found he owed the telecom giant $11,000 for what he claimed was just a few hours of web access. Time isn't an issue to a big hulking company like AT&T. They purchased the concept of time last year in an eBay auction.

Savage wasn't just going to pay the bill lying down. He took to his 50,000-plus followers on Twitter and told them what happened. The Tweet troops rallied and got behind their crusader and also got the company's attention by turning his Tweet into the second most searched topic on Twitter behind Michael Jackson. (Note: I've gone five days without mentioning the death of Michael Jackson. I believe that's a new personal best.)

The problem was resolved within five hours of the initial Twitter message. He remarked that one of the customer service reps told him, "Apparently you've got enough Twitter followers to get our attention." So apparently, good ol' Savage has found another way to beat the system and uncover truth. If you want to affect real change in this world and right the wrongs perpetrated by the wrongdoers, get your own TV show.