Saturday, December 08, 2007

Spanish man receives insulting gas bill

When Antonio Bandín Moreno collected his post before heading off to work, he left it on the table and thought nothing more of it. It was only when his wife called him on his mobile that he discovered he had been the subject of a practical joke.

"Antonio, have you seen the bill from Gas Natural," she asked. "Yes, but I didn't want to open it," he said, "Why would I? To go to work in a bad mood? Has it gone up much this month?"

But it wasn't the total on the bill that caused her to call. While all the other information, from his personal identity number to his banking details, was correct, the bill was addressed to Antonio Gilipollas Caraculo, or Antonio Dickhead Arseface.

Bandín, who works in the administration department of the San Jerónimo parish in Valencia, could not think of any reason why he would have been singled out.

He told his local paper, Levante: "I have no idea who it might have been ... I suppose it could have happened to anyone, and I think whoever did it either wants to get sacked or isn't well in the head."

There was one upside to it all, said Bandín. Since his photograph appeared in the local paper, his mobile has not stopped ringing, with old friends calling to speak to the man now known as "Mr Arseface".

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