Clients should pay their bills, yes. But also, developers should check their bank accounts before shutting things down.
https://thesun.co.uk/news/8253908/...

Sorry but it's the sun, I'm not clicking on principal

Basically a dude didn’t get paid for construction of a new Travelodge building. So he drove a tractor though it. Turns out he didn’t check his bank account that day. And there had also been a bank holiday so the transfer came later than he expected.