Bijapur (India): The buffalo must have been taken back when the mobile phone started ringing in his tummy. When the mobile phone was out through its digestive system it had seven missed calls in it.
Farmer Ishwar Totager lost his mobile near his cowshed. He suspects that the phone must have dropped of from his pocket while he was cleaning the shed. The mobile was packed in a plastic pouch and the buffalo must have swallowed the whole pouch.
Ishwar had forgotten about his phone until he found in the buffalo heap dung. No one knows what the callers heard. The buffalo surely must have wondered where the moo-sic was coming everytime the phone rang.
Australlian Stimulus Package May Be Going to the Pets
CANBERRA: The Australian government will have to give cash handouts to cats and dogs as part of a stimulus package designed to kickstart the economy, the opposition said.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's centre-left government has begun giving $900 ($594 US) cash bonuses to eligible taxpayers as part of a $42 billion ($28 billion US) stimulus package passed last month.
But the conservative opposition said cats and dogs would benefit because of the way the handouts were structured -- every eligible person who lodged a tax return last year receives the money regardless of their circumstances.
"It's now emerging that dogs and cats may well be in receipt of this money, because if a deceased person's estate was bequeathed to the family pet, then they may well receive this money," opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey told ABC television.
"This is the absurdity of the Rudd government. Literally hundreds of people die each year and leave, bequeath, their estates to pets or related activities.
"Of course, the executors of those estates have to lodge tax returns for the last year and simply lodging a tax return -- satisfying the eligibility criteria -- means that the estate gets the money and the dogs and cats are richer for it."
Dead Maths Whiz Gets TV Bill
BERLIN: 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 honour was set up at the property four centuries later.
Farmer Ishwar Totager lost his mobile near his cowshed. He suspects that the phone must have dropped of from his pocket while he was cleaning the shed. The mobile was packed in a plastic pouch and the buffalo must have swallowed the whole pouch.
Ishwar had forgotten about his phone until he found in the buffalo heap dung. No one knows what the callers heard. The buffalo surely must have wondered where the moo-sic was coming everytime the phone rang.
Australlian Stimulus Package May Be Going to the Pets
CANBERRA: The Australian government will have to give cash handouts to cats and dogs as part of a stimulus package designed to kickstart the economy, the opposition said.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's centre-left government has begun giving $900 ($594 US) cash bonuses to eligible taxpayers as part of a $42 billion ($28 billion US) stimulus package passed last month.
But the conservative opposition said cats and dogs would benefit because of the way the handouts were structured -- every eligible person who lodged a tax return last year receives the money regardless of their circumstances.
"It's now emerging that dogs and cats may well be in receipt of this money, because if a deceased person's estate was bequeathed to the family pet, then they may well receive this money," opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey told ABC television.
"This is the absurdity of the Rudd government. Literally hundreds of people die each year and leave, bequeath, their estates to pets or related activities.
"Of course, the executors of those estates have to lodge tax returns for the last year and simply lodging a tax return -- satisfying the eligibility criteria -- means that the estate gets the money and the dogs and cats are richer for it."
Dead Maths Whiz Gets TV Bill
BERLIN: 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 honour was set up at the property four centuries later.
