Man pays 36 euro cents bill to debt-collector

BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhuanet) -- An Austrian manpaidhis 36 euro
cents bill as part of his underpaid trash collection amount after adebt
collector was sent to his home by authorities.

According to a local newspaperThursday, the man, from a village in
Lower Austria province, saidhe had accidentally overlooked the 36 cents
after the decimal place on his bill for 236.36 euros ($315).

The slip-up set the bureaucratic ball rolling, said a spokeswoman from the
court which chased the debt.

"We also don't completely understand why the court reacted this way to such
a trifling invoice," she said.

(Agencies)