TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gay,_West_Virginia



Submitted December 22, 2014 at 07:01PM by llamanatee http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2q2fdp/til_that_in_2010_microsoft_banned_a_user_from/