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Spanish woman claims she owns the sun - and now plans to start charging ALL users


Last updated at 4:10 PM on 29th November 2010

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It has been up there in the sky in plain view for billions of years but nobody seems to have thought of its earning potential - until now.

A canny Spanish woman from Galicia - a sun-drenched region on the border with Spain and Portugal - has decided that she owns the star, and has the registration papers to prove it.

Angeles Duran, 49, says that the sun officially belongs to her now, having had the celestial body registered in her name at a local notary office.
Angeles Duran

'I know the law': An international agreement states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals

Ms Duran 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 Ms 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'.
Angeles Duran

Hot property: Angeles Duran, 49, with her notary office document that proves she is the legal owner of the sun

Ms 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 per cent to the nation's pension fund.

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

She said: 'It is time to start doing things the right way, if there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people's wellbeing, why not do it?'

For those who might be a little too broke to venture out in the sunlight - and risk a large bill at the end of the day - Ms Dueran has not yet figured out a way of enforcing her sun charge.


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[kuronosan]

Stupid bitch will be dead within years.

This is classic stupidity.

[Ragnus]

I have to agree with the comments. If I have to pay to use the sun, then she has to pay for my melanoma / sunburn treatments for providing me with a product that is endangering my health and well-being. God help her if I ever get a sun stroke.

[Shenrien]

this is why we cant have nice things.

[Gustave]

w t f

[Saga]

she's not stupid guys, she knows the law.

[Callisto]

The first person who has enough expendable cash to lawyer up and sue her for sun-related damages wins the cookies. All of the cookies.

[kuronosan]

The sun damaged the paint on my car. I want $1,000,000.

[Shenrien]

My aunt has cancer, its the suns fault, cause it couldn't be anything else that caused it over the 73 years shes been alive, DOWN WITH THE SUN!

[Jeryhn]

As a certified basement dweller, I do not use the Sun and I can finally scoff at the lot of you who do.

[Guitarman]

I really think i might die of laughter if someone sues her over sun damages. I really might.

[Fhqwghads]

I live in Seattle. I don't have to pay shit. I don't even remember what the sun looks like.

[Guitarman]

I live in Seattle. I don't have to pay shit. I don't even remember what the sun looks like.

Oregon. I should sue the bitch for holding out and making me pale.

[Wintermute]

You guys need to stop quoting the Daily Mail and The Sun like they're actual sources of news. You're making my brainmeats hurt.

They're lucky to drag themselves up to the "tabloid" level.

[Siniroth]

She'll just use this type of defense to any lawsuit:

"I will write on a huge cement block “BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING.”

[Priran]

jonas salk can suck it

[Max™]

Can we sue her for global warming, since the sun (being a fucking ginormous ball of nuclear fire) is the cause of all the heat that reaches the earth?

[arus2001]

brb, claiming ownership of oxygen.

[Blabj]

You guys need to stop quoting the Daily Mail and The Sun like they're actual sources of news. You're making my brainmeats hurt.

They're lucky to drag themselves up to the "tabloid" level.

^

[miokomioko]

brb, claiming ownership of oxygen.

You're going to be responsible for a lot of fire damage.