Couple billed $5000 after digging up 400-year-old remains
A canadian couple's quest to build a fence has turned into a costly exercise. Ken Campbell and his wife Nicole Sauve were digging holes for a fence in their backyard. But during the digging process they dug up remains of an indigenous woman from the late 1500s.
The Ontario government quickly got involved and removed the rest of the remains. But after the bones were removed the Registrar of Cemeteries asked the couple to hire an archeologist, at their expense, to survey the land for more remains. The cost, $5000.
Ms Sauve has appealed for the local mayor to pick up the bill.
Has Google gone looney?
While much of the developed world has long been connected to the internet, many places, including some regional centres in Australia, still can't get online. Often the issue is infrastructure. It's either too expensive for standard technology, or the demand currently isn't there. But internet search giant Google has announced plans to change that. And in true Google style, the plan is not exactly in-the-box.
Forget the NBN and fibre-to-the-home, Google plans to use high altitude balloons to bring the rest of the world online. That's right, by floating baloons into the stratosphere Google hopes they can create reliable internet connections for every one. Google's 'Project Loon' engineers plan to use computer algorithms to control the balloons and their positions on the edge of space.
Preparations are already underway to test Project Loon in New Zealand and Google claims the technology will deliver internet speeds similar to 3G.
Passengers billed for water after being stuck on plane for 3 hours
Passengers flying from Melbourne to Hobart on Tiger Airways flight TT426 were stuck on the tarmac for almost three hours. The reason, according to the passengers, someone lost the paperwork.
But while that's bad enough, those on board claim they were still charged for water despite being stuck in their seats. One passenger compaired the ordeal to being locked in a prison.
Tiger Airways spokeswoman Vanessa Regan told News Ltd the "engineers' assessment took longer than anticipated" but the airline was sorry for any inconvenience caused.
No reason was given as to why passengers were charged for water.
The telegram says goodbye.
It's time to say goodbye to the telegram. After being introduced to the world in the mid 1800s, the telegram is on its last legs. There is still close to 5000 messages being sent each day by telegram and many of these messages occure in India where the technology is still being used. But India's state-owned telecom company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), is phasing out the technology.
BSNL says newer technologies such as SMS and smartphones have made the telegram irrelevant to the point where they'e losing close to $23 million each year.
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