Pay by the Pound: Samoa Air Becomes First Airline to Charge Overweight Passengers

Customers will be weighed at the airport (Reuters)

Customers prepay the estimated cost and the airline then weighs them at the airport, to ensure they have paid the correct amount.

Samoa Air chief executive Chris Langton said paying by weight is the fairest way to calculate fares.

He told ABC radio: "People have always travelled on the basis of their seat but as many airline operators, know airlines don't run on seats - they run on weight.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/452574/20130402/samoa-air-charging-more-overweight-passengers-ticket.htm

Student beaten up by waiter for not paying in protest at not receiving receipt

A 20-year-old student in Komotini in northern Greece was transferred to an Athens hospital on Tuesday to undergo surgery for a broken jaw after being assaulted by a nightclub waiter on the weekend because he and his friends decided to leave the establishment without paying for their drinks because they had not been issued a receipt.

According to a recent law meant to clamp down on VAT dodgers, customers can refuse to pay for goods and services if they are not issued a proper receipt for the full value of their purchases.

The 20-year-old student told local media that they had repeatedly asked their waiter at a popular nightclub for a receipt after ordering two rounds of drinks and that they waited for a reasonable amount of time before deciding to walk out of the establishment.

Yiannis Gerekos, a third-year sport science student from Corfu, told local media that he was attacked from behind by the waiter as he and his friends walked across the main square of Komotini several minutes after leaving the nightclub. He said that he heard someone yell at him and was punched in the face as he turned around.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_02/04/2013_491364

"My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost."

The most of circulating assets on our business Current Account are blocked.

Over 700k of expropriated money will be used to repay country's debt. Probably we will get back about 20% of this amount in 6-7 years.

I'm not Russian oligarch, but just European medium size IT business. Thousands of other companies around Cyprus have the same situation.

The business is definitely ruined, all Cypriot workers to be fired.

We are moving to small Caribbean country where authorities have more respect to people's assets. Also we are thinking about using Bitcoin to pay wages and for payments between our partners.

Special thanks to:

- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
- Angela Merkel
- Manuel Barroso
- the rest of officials of "European Comission"