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.
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’.
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.
-DailyMail
Poverty in action
No problem since you want to charge us leave our world n go live there…then send us the bill from there.
Drug is not good in your health sister
Please tell that woman to off it
Dis lazy woman. She does not know what she is doing cos dat sun has been there since before her mum gave birth to her. She should look for smting else and do and stop laying unnecessary claims on planetry bodies.
Hahaha very funny
She devil, hell awaits u
K2 in action…ALANZO
She sniffed enough coke
LET HER COME TO SOKOTO COME COLLECT THE SUN FOR THERE I HOPE SAY BK BOY NO GO SEE HER
hey crazy bitch, since u decide to fool yourself use ur name!, abi ur parents nor name u? fool !!!
Which sun? Is it sun newspaper? mischeeeew
Seriously,I mean Seriously?????
Kindly switch it off because nobody is ready to pay a cent
My dear drugs is not good for your brain…
Too much crack smoking and sniffing
Too much crack smoking and sniffing
please tell her to come and carry her Sun i can not afford to Pay for it in this hard times
Cannabis in action
U so stupid being attract to ur dad as 4 the sun land go en try someting else only ur kids wil believe u
No type of story wey person no go hear for this Facebook, tufiakwa especially white
Some people wake up everymorning with lie way big pass the earth, abi? Me i go begin lie too, ok… me self i own the oxygen so all of you go start pay me.U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602 i go vex oooU0001f602U0001f602U0001f602
Why didn’t you own the moon too and the ocean? No only sun. Kpomo like you.
She surely has a problem.