Warsaw: A Polish bus driver has been fired for sending 38,000 text messages on his company cellphone in a losing effort to win contest jackpot.

Leszek Wojcik, a bus driver in the northwestern Polish city of Slupsk, ran up a tab of some 94,000 zlotys ($34,000) with his text messages while trying to win a 100,000-zloty ($36,000) SMS contest that ended on June 30, Slupsk city transport spokesman Hubert Boba said.  read more