"Spanish woman claims ownership of the sun"

[Tacel]

Woman wants to slap fee on everyone who uses the sun

MADRID — 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."

Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/spanish-woman-ownership-sun/

 

[Jonkku]

Wait, is that ownership actually legal and working and what-not?


I wonder how much she and that other guy paid for their claims.
...I also wonder how much those two will get when/if people have to start paying them for "using" the planets or the sun.

 

[Budget Player Cadet_]

You know, kinda makes me think "have we gone too far in ownership?" Then makes me think "dayum, I wanna have something like that!"

 

[Jim Morrison]

Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the sun and give half of the proceeds to the Spanish government and 20 percent to the nation's pension fund.

She would dedicate another 10 percent to research, another 10 percent to ending world hunger -- and would keep the remaining 10 percent herself.

This was the best part lmao.

 

[Colonel Cuddles]

Pfft. She actually beleives in buying stars.

 

[DTP]

Oh wow.

brb gonna go legally claim that woman as my own since it simply occurred to me first >:[

 

[Life]

Gonna sue her as I know someone who died of skin cancer

 

[Dru2]

^I was about to ask if this means we could sue her because of people getting severe sunburns and skin cancer XD

U beat me to it (ಠ益ಠ)

Seriously though, this is ridiculous. Who would buy a star anyway? and since she probably won't get any money from her scheme, it's pretty worthless.

 

[Jam Stunna]

Gonna sue her as I know someone who died of skin cancer

That's actually a great idea

 

[Mr.Freeman]

Hey, if we're gonna star buying the Sun, maybe we can buy other celestial bodies.

Dibs on Neptune.

 

[Dru2]

*waits for a Uranus joke*

 

[SkylerOcon]

My dad is at high risk for skin cancer and has actually had to have cancerous parts of his skin removed several times. Brb, calling my lawyer.

 

[Jonas]

It's like a flee claiming ownership of the owner of the dog it inhabits. I mean come on. The Sun doesn't give a ****. Neither does humanity, I guess.

 

[Tacel]

*waits for a Uranus joke*

I claim ownership of Uranus.

 

[mizujin]

I wonder if I can register myself as the owner of the Milky Way. I'm going to put up a fine for wasting my space.

 

[Pluvia]

You can't claim the planets some guy already has.

Though I'm sure we can sue her for UV damage from the Sun.

 

[Mota]

Lol'd when I read the title. This is too good

 

[TigerWoods]

She's either a genious and is using this to laugh at people's reactions, or shes just really stupid.

 

[Rychu]

I'm gonna claim ownership of pluto, and make it a planet again :D

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

So does she have to pay for general upkeep?

 

[Deleted member]

Am I really to be the first to mention ownership of earth itself?

*dips on earth*

 

[Geist]

Wow what an attention*****.
This sounds like something Douglas Adams would write.

 

[Pikaville]

Unlike Maraccas, I bet if you shake her head there is nothing inside.

 

[StinkomanFan]

I'm gonna go see if someone is selling the asteroid belt!

 

[Dre89]

I claim ownership of being.

I'm going to slap a fee on it, so everything that exists has to pay me a tax.

 

[Life]

I claim ownership of taxes.

Any time a tax is paid I have to get half.

 

[Jonas]

Wow what an attention*****.
This sounds like something Douglas Adams would write.

LOL that's so true!

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

I claim ownership of tax collectors. Everybody who collects taxes has to pay me.

I also bought the matrix, and Orion, and the world....

 

[Orion*]

what is this garbage they abolished slavery a minute ago

 

[pickle962]

See kids. This is what happens when you're out in the sun too long...

 

[~ Gheb ~]

I also bought the matrix, and Orion, and the world....

what is this garbage they abolished slavery a minute ago

Slavery doesn't exist in the Netherlands

 

[Today]

At least she has good intentions...
but making everyone pay for the sun whoever uses it is kind of. XD;

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

what is this garbage they abolished slavery a minute ago

I own the world. I make the laws. My rules say you are my slave.

Deal with it

 

[Life]

I own the concept of ownership. What now?

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

I own you.

 

[Life]

But I own ownership. You can't own me unless I allow you to.

 

[Brightside6382]

Would I be able to take legal action against her for sunburns and skin cancer?

 

[Jonkku]

Would I be able to take legal action against her for sunburns and skin cancer?

Don't forget sunstrokes or all the negative weather stuff caused by the Sun.

 

[Budget Player Cadet_]

Someone really should.

 

[Mini Mic]

How absurd. I woman owning property...