Dead man gets television bill

BEIJING, March.16 (Xinhuanet) -- A man received a letterfor his long-overdue television license bill after his death 450years ago, centuries before the invention of Television and radio.

Germany's GEZ broadcast fee collection office sent the bill to the last home address of Adam Ries,the German mathematician, who bought the house in 1525. residents of the house said Wednesday. A club in his honor was set up at the property four centuries later.

"We received a letter saying 'To Mr Adam Ries' on it, with the request to pay his television and radio fees," said Annegret Muench, who now heads the club.

Muench returned the letter to the GEZ with a note explaining the request had come too late because Ries had died in 1559. She nonetheless received a reminder a few weeks later.

(Agencies)