Italian Court Summoned Disney Characters!

In a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, the Italian court summoned Titti, Paperino, Paperina, and Topolino (the Italian names for Tweety Bird, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy Duck).

The court summons cites Titti, Paperino, Paperina, Topolino — the Italian names for the characters — as damaged parties in the criminal trial of a Chinese man accused of counterfeiting products of Disney and Warner Bros.

Instead of naming only the companies and their legal representatives, clerks also wrote in the witness list the names of the cartoons that decorated the toys and gadgets the man had reproduced, said Fiorenza Sorotto, vice president of Disney Company Italia.

"Unfortunately they cannot show up, as they are residents of Disneyland," Sorotto joked in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It certainly pleased us that the characters were considered real, because that’s what we try to do."

Link – via WTF Monkey, thanks Dan!