I *thought* I had a bad day today.

...and then I read this:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Youll-Need-to-Come-Downtown.aspx

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>I *thought* I had a bad day today.
>
> ...and then I read this:
>
> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Youll-Need-to-Come-Downtown.aspx


     Good one. I'm surprised that the son had four zero's in his number, but 
yeah, it's called 'Sod's Law'.

     I would have liked to see those cops faces!  :)


      ~Steve~



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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:47d9649d@news.povray.org...

>     I would have liked to see those cops faces!  :)

       Jeez...    Looong day...   :o/

      ~Steve~

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St. wrote:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
> news:47d95bd8@news.povray.org...
>> I *thought* I had a bad day today.
>>
>> ...and then I read this:
>>
>> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Youll-Need-to-Come-Downtown.aspx
> 
> 
>      Good one. I'm surprised that the son had four zero's in his number, but 
> yeah, it's called 'Sod's Law'.
> 
>      I would have liked to see those cops faces!  :)
> 
> 
>       ~Steve~

My old phone number ended in 0001. It was fine, till one of the other
phone companies used it for unknown numbers. I started getting very
angry calls at 4 AM telling me 'I have caller ID, I know you just called
me and hung up, don't do that again or <various threat>!' It got bad
enough that I needed a new phone number.

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And lo on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:24:42 -0000, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at  
vtSPAM.edu"> did spake, saying:

> St. wrote:
>> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>> news:47d95bd8@news.povray.org...
>>> I *thought* I had a bad day today.
>>>
>>> ...and then I read this:
>>>
>>> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Youll-Need-to-Come-Downtown.aspx
>>
>>      Good one. I'm surprised that the son had four zero's in his  
>> number, but yeah, it's called 'Sod's Law'.
>>
>>      I would have liked to see those cops faces!  :)

> My old phone number ended in 0001. It was fine, till one of the other
> phone companies used it for unknown numbers. I started getting very
> angry calls at 4 AM telling me 'I have caller ID, I know you just called
> me and hung up, don't do that again or <various threat>!' It got bad
> enough that I needed a new phone number.

Wow we just get "You were called today at [time/date]. The caller withheld  
their number" Likewise any caller id hardware just displays "UNKNOWN" or  
"WITHHELD".

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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> My old phone number ended in 0001. It was fine,

In univserity, my phone number was the same that you dialed to get MCI's 
charge-to-my-phone-card tone, if you didn't wait for the dial tone and 
thus didn't get out of the PBX.  It took me about three months to figure 
out what was going on with dozens of people a week calling me up in the 
middle of the night, saying "Who the hell are you?" and hanging up 
again.  Eventually I had to put a message on my answering machine 
explaining the problem, and it slowly cleared up.


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Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:24:42 -0000, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at
> vtSPAM.edu"> did spake, saying:
> 
>> St. wrote:
>>> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>>> news:47d95bd8@news.povray.org...
>>>> I *thought* I had a bad day today.
>>>>
>>>> ...and then I read this:
>>>>
>>>> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Youll-Need-to-Come-Downtown.aspx
>>>
>>>      Good one. I'm surprised that the son had four zero's in his
>>> number, but yeah, it's called 'Sod's Law'.
>>>
>>>      I would have liked to see those cops faces!  :)
> 
>> My old phone number ended in 0001. It was fine, till one of the other
>> phone companies used it for unknown numbers. I started getting very
>> angry calls at 4 AM telling me 'I have caller ID, I know you just called
>> me and hung up, don't do that again or <various threat>!' It got bad
>> enough that I needed a new phone number.
> 
> Wow we just get "You were called today at [time/date]. The caller
> withheld their number" Likewise any caller id hardware just displays
> "UNKNOWN" or "WITHHELD".
> 

I thought about putting a message like that on my voice mail, so they
would know it wasn't really me. But it all happened after I had been out
of town for a week, so I called the phone company to make sure that no
one had been in my apartment. And to make sure that there were no
glitches in the phone lines, a short somewhere that just happened to
make the right tones to dial these numbers. They changed the number
while they were looking in to the problem.

My suspicion is the Big Phone Company in the area doesn't like the
little local place that handles my phone, and doesn't like sharing their
copper wires with them. Putting one of their numbers as the 'unknown'
might have just been a bit of local politics.

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"Sabrina Kilian" <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote in message 
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> My old phone number ended in 0001. It was fine, till one of the other
> phone companies used it for unknown numbers. I started getting very
> angry calls at 4 AM telling me 'I have caller ID, I know you just called
> me and hung up, don't do that again or <various threat>!' It got bad
> enough that I needed a new phone number.

    Gah. That's not good at all. If one them had a problem in the brain 
department, that could have been serious. Glad you got it sorted.

     ~Steve~

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And lo on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:22:00 -0000, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at  
vtSPAM.edu"> did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:24:42 -0000, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at
>> vtSPAM.edu"> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> My old phone number ended in 0001. It was fine, till one of the other
>>> phone companies used it for unknown numbers.
>>
>> Wow we just get "You were called today at [time/date]. The caller
>> withheld their number" Likewise any caller id hardware just displays
>> "UNKNOWN" or "WITHHELD".
>>
> I thought about putting a message like that on my voice mail, so they
> would know it wasn't really me. But it all happened after I had been out
> of town for a week, so I called the phone company to make sure that no
> one had been in my apartment. And to make sure that there were no
> glitches in the phone lines, a short somewhere that just happened to
> make the right tones to dial these numbers. They changed the number
> while they were looking in to the problem.

I'm just surprised that they use a number at all; obviously cheap  
programmers with a "you were called by [insert phone number]" script that  
only accepts a valid number.

> My suspicion is the Big Phone Company in the area doesn't like the
> little local place that handles my phone, and doesn't like sharing their
> copper wires with them. Putting one of their numbers as the 'unknown'
> might have just been a bit of local politics.

Ah tell me about it my company has just switched from Big Phone Company to  
Little Phone Company and we've lost the ability to determine last caller  
or caller id. LPC were quite surprised about this as all services should  
be moved over as standard; so they called up BPC who told them they  
couldn't transfer these services due to the type of line we have coming  
in. So BPC can do it when we're with them, but can't do it when we're not.  
Ah nothing like ensuring a level playing field when denationalising a  
monopoly company :-)

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