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HUMOR: Next time, get your pet to place the call...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Fri Oct 14 11:01:01 1994

To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 10:55:39 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>


Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 13:18:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Berczuk <berczuk@space.mit.edu>
From: Royce Buehler <buehler@sybil>
Subject: One more thing cat owners have to worry about.

In article <XRaustralia-catUR5e8_4OC@clarinet.com>, C-reuters@clarinet.com (Reuters) writes:
> 	 BRISBANE, Austrialia (Reuter) - When your tabby cat makes a
> telephone call in Australia there's no charge.
>     This was the ruling after a Siamese cat ran up a large bill
> by knocking a telephone receiver off its cradle and then hitting
> the redial button, an Australian newspaper reported Thursday.
> 	 But the cat's owner did not have to pay the bill because
> Australia's telephone ombudsman found  communications laws did
> not provide for animals making calls, Brisbane's Courier-Mail
> said.


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