>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23352230
>They wouldn't have needed to apologise to me :-}

Exactly $92,233,720,368,547,800? I see.

That's 147AE 147AE 147D8 in hexadecimal.
Doesn't seem to be random.
The difference between 147D8 and 147AE is 42.

In binary, it's: 101000111101011100001010001111010111000010100011111011000

If we break those binary digits out into parts, we see a repeating pattern as well, with one bit at the end:
101 000 1111 -- 5 0 15
010 111 0000 -- 2 7 0
101 000 1111 -- 5 0 15
010 111 0000 -- 2 7 0
101 000 1111 -- 5 0 15
101 1000 -- 5 8, or if we use 1011000 as one value it's 88, just like "88 miles an hour" in "Back to the Future"! LOL! :-)

Just freaky.

It's probably some "covert" message being reported widely, out in the open, and not just some random accident.