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Friday, April 11, 2003 Bills Now, I haven't verified the truth of this, but it's pretty funny.... Taken from Newscientist.com: IN THESE days of computer billing, it's not unusual to receive a phone bill for a small amount of money. It's probably not even that unusual for phone bills to be sent out to people who have died. Even so, it seems strange that US phone company Sprint recently managed to send a bill for 12 cents to David Towles, who died in 1997, and correctly addressed it to Towles's new residence, the Hillside Cemetery, Evergreen Section, Auburn, Massachusetts 01501. Sprint was unable to explain how the bill had come to be addressed to the correct section of the cemetery plot, or how Towles had apparently managed to make a call from beyond the grave; one call had been placed on 16 February this year, five years after his death. But perhaps dying is like being arrested and you're allowed to make one phone call, suggests reader Bodhipaksa, who spotted this snippet in The Boston Globe. ^ Top | 1:16 AM | | | 
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