Spanish Woman Claims She Now Owns Sun (didnt buy Uranus)

AFP/FOX NEWS ^ | nov 26, 2010 | afp

[max americana]

(AFP) - After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner -- a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.

Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our solar system.

There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added.

"There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first."

The document issued by the notary public declares Duran to be the "owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers."

[Blood of Tyrants]

She doesn’t own it, she just likes to peer up at it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I heard she was going there to check out her new property. She’s no dummy, though, she is going at night!

[Syntyr]

We’ll I ain’t payin!!! So I guess you will just have to repo the sun!!! Good luck with that, your going to need some asbestos underwear!

[tophat9000]

Well it is a hot property

[Bean Counter]

[cgbg]

It will be my pleasure to send that property tax bill to her.

Hope she has plenty of gold bullion ready for delivery.

:-)

[Lockbar]

"Algore was heard to say, “Damn!”"

Yep, another sun-beam futures trading Ponzi scheme goes down the drain.

[count-your-change]

That Galicia must be one fun place if all the citizens have a sense of humor like that!!

[Northern Yankee]

How about the heating bill? And will the govt. start taxing her heat?

"I'm the taxman..."

[SunkenCiv]

There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added.

Great! We now have someone to sue when the weather's bad, when there's climate change, when anyone gets skin cancer...

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks max americana. Watch out everyone, she knows the law!

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[P.O.E.]

"owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers."

Location, location, location

[RansomOttawa]

The document issued by the notary public declares Duran to be the "owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers."

Oh, that Sun.

[OrioleFan]

Ever hear the old joke:

Why is there very little research into solar energy?
Because Exxon and BP can’t get clear title to the Sun.