December is the month when the “wacky news” stories from around the world get an airing…

 I found this one via Yahoo this morning… Cat gets credit card.

An Australian woman decided to test the indentity screening processes that her bank uses for credit card applications. So she applied for a card in the name of her cat, who is 2 years old.

The bank asked for ID documents, but hadn’t received them before they issued the card (the cat was getting preened for the passport photographs – we can only assume). Furthermore the cat’s owner wasn’t notified that a second card had been issued on her account.

AUS$4,200 of a credit limit is available to the cat.