Overdue Bill

A German mathematician who died 450 years ago has been sent a letter demanding that he pay television license fees.

Germany's GEZ broadcast fee collection office sent the bill to the last home address of Adam Ries, an algebra expert who bought the house in 1525. Residents returned the letter with a note explaining Ries had died in 1559, centuries before the invention of television and radio. They nonetheless received a reminder a few weeks later.

Thanks to Reuters