Davy Jones has gone to his own locker

That's right, Davy Jones of the Monkees has died. But there's some more serious business to take care of. When Specialist Reynald Matias was heading to Afghanistan with his Army unit late last year, their chartered flight stopped to refuel at Leipzig-Halle Airport in Germany. During a brief layover, he called his wife in Tacoma, Washington, using his debit card on a payphone in the terminal’s troops-only transit lounge. “What are they charging you?” his wife, Crystal, asked when he reached her. He did not know, so she told him to hang up. A few days later she got the answer: $51 for what she estimated was a two-minute call. This is just not on. You can expect huge roaming charges when you use your cellphone overseas, but at a public payphone, it's just not right. $51 for a two-minute call is totally unfair. If I wanted to waste money like that, I'd chuck it in the fire.