Silly Woman, You Don't Own The Sun

[Aesop Rocks]

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."

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 kilometres".
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.
"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 well-being, why not do it?" she asked.

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In before "", "", "that woman is an idiot", "it's official: I've lost all hope for humanity", or "I hate human beings".

 

[The Squirrel]

Well when the sun explodes and destroys our planet we can blame her for not keeping her property in line.

 

[The Question]

If the money goes to charity and scientific reasearch, then more power to her.

 

[Specter313]

So I can sue her the next time I get a sunburn?

 

[roach]

so I see a class action lawsuit for all those people with skin cancer

 

[Alex The Great]

Hahaha. This is kind of brilliant actually. A bunch of people have bought stars that are light years away. Some sort of gift to their significant other. I'm a little surprised no one thought of this before

 

[The Original Bamfer]

So I can sue her the next time I get a sunburn?

 

[The Squirrel]

Wait, how can see fee anyone who uses the sun? How does she even think she could enforce that?

 

[Sawyer]

I dont even understand the human thought process anymore....

 

[Aesop Rocks]

heh, you used

 

[Sawyer]

heh, you used

Do I, like... owe you money now?

 

[roach]

does she owe us when its cloudy???

 

[ComicChick]

i just can't even wrap my head around this

 

[redmarvel]

Frankly it's not yours, unless you've gotten someone to set foot on it and claim it as yours. (As the colonists did with North America totally ignoring the fact it already had inhabitants)

 

[KevanG]

Well, if she wants to sue me for it, bring it on.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I set foot on the surface of the sun once.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I don't think she has to worry about trespassing.

But are we going to have to pay her for daylight?

 

[Hobgoblin]

She cant have the Sun! I created it and it's mine!

Spoiler

Let's see her top that in terms of megalomania.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Hobgoblin of Space Section 2814 - you have shown great amounts of greed in your life. Welcome to the Orange Lantern Corps.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Hobgoblin of Space Section 2814 - you have shown great amounts of greed in your life. Welcome to the Orange Lantern Corps.

Where do I sign?

 

[Aesop Rocks]

You don't sign, silly!

 

[Hobgoblin]

Eh, screw it. If I cant have one of each of the power rings, I dont want any of them.

 

[SuperFerret]

Frankly it's not yours, unless you've gotten someone to set foot on it and claim it as yours. (As the colonists did with North America totally ignoring the fact it already had inhabitants)

So... we should give polio quilts to the sun-people?

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Yes, it's the only way.

 

[SuperFerret]

Sounds like a plan. I'll get the quilts, you go get polio.