Things are getting bad in Greece

Bazzy

The Prime Minister of hard up Greece has had his telephone cut off - for non-payment of bills.




http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Greek_PM_has_his_phone_cut_off

chin_grin

Meanwhile, in REAL news................

KevinVonSpiel

This thread is "dying a death".

biko

The Prime Minister of hard up Greece has had his telephone cut off - for non-payment of bills.

A technician mistakenly cut off the home phone line of George Papandreou while trying to disconnect a different customer behind in payments.

The other customer's number was the same as the prime minister's, apart from one digit, says telecoms firm OTE.

The telephone line, in a suburb of Athens, was reconnected two days after it had been cut.

The OTE telephone firm says the technician's mistake, which happened earlier this month, was not spotted immediately.

"It was not a red phone," an OTE worker told the BBC, meaning that it was not one of Mr Papandreou's priority lines.

Mr Papandreou is under pressure to get Greece's debt-laden budget in order.

His government is pushing through unpopular spending cuts in return for a massive EU and IMF bail-out.

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minidazzler

To be honest, if my number was one digit away from Brian Cowen, I wouldn't pay bills either, I would just wait to be cut off. You would definitely get a load of calls to meet in the back of a restaurant to accept money like.

mathie

Aristotle bills not being paid in time?

mikom

"E.U phone home"

starbelgrade

Did he not check demeter?