We prove that the classical Urysohn-Menger sum formula, dim(A or B) less-than-or-equal-to dim A + dim B + 1, which is also known to be true for co-homological dimension over the integers (and some other abelian groups), does not hold for cohomological dimension over an arbitrary abelian group of coefficients. In particular, we prove that there exist subsets A , B subset-of R4 such that 4 = dim(Q/Z)(A or B) > dim(Q/z) A + dim(Q/z) B + 1 = 3.