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)

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)