[494] in Humor
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.
