Snippets: Math whiz, dead for 450 years, gets TV bill

This caught my eyes at Yahoo odd news. I sure find it amusing and yet it's something for us to take note hahaha...it's not impossible and we can't give an excuse of not having all this facilities....I mean the electricity supply.

Math whiz, dead for 450 years, gets TV bill

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German mathematician who died 450 years ago has been sent a letter demanding that he pay long-overdue television license fees, residents at his former address said on Wednesday.

Germany's GEZ broadcast fee collection office sent the bill to the last home address of Adam Ries, an algebra expert who bought the house in 1525. 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, centuries before the invention of television and radio. She nonetheless received a reminder a few weeks later.

This was not the first time the GEZ had sent a bill to those in the afterlife. Last year, a school named after poet Friedrich Schiller received a reminder asking him to declare all radios and televisions in his home and pay the corresponding fees.

(Reporting by Franziska Scheven; Editing by Katie Nguyen)

After reading the article, it sure bring me back to the day, 27 years ago(ancient already oh! ;) ) , when SEB decided to upgrade their billing system by computerising it. Unfortunately the transition didn't go smoothly which is a normal thing when adapting to a new system and at that time (in Sabah) the 'Computer' was an 'alien' word and hardly being heard of haha and it cause a chaos and panic when the consumers stormed(with faces that can wake the dead lagi tu LOL) to the SEB counter for they were being charged for their long-overdued bill as far as 7 years back(if I'm not mistaken) and they claimed they have settled their bills unfortunately for some of them they can't produce any proof for they didn't keep their payment slip...Hah! Itu yang bikin gaduh tu coz ada logik dia juga, sapa juga simpan bill sampai bertaun-taun...kalau adapun bukan semua...So boleh imaginelah apa soalan2 bonus waktu tu...pucat juga bah!.

Witnessing all these at the time teaches me to keep every payment slips that I made or even a mere receipts for years and years which is one of the reason of me not having enough space to keep my thing hahaha. Oh ya! the SEB now known as SESB and the billing system has improved and excellent :)