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An Anonymous Coward writes:
The Guardian gives us an article about one woman fighting back against the ever more invasive robocall.
Many people dislike receiving robocalls. Araceli King disliked receiving 153 of them from a single company.
Time Warner Cable Inc must pay the insurance claims specialist $229,500 for placing 153 automated calls meant for someone else to her cellphone in less than a year, even after she told it to stop, a Manhattan federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
King, of Irving, Texas, accused Time Warner Cable of harassing her by leaving messages for Luiz Perez, who once held her cellphone number, even after she made clear who she was in a seven-minute discussion with a company representative.
The calls were made through an "interactive voice response" system meant for customers who were late paying bills.
The article doesn't say if Luiz Perez paid his bill yet.
Original Submission
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @11:11PM
They should have given her the option of kicking the TW CEO in the nuts. 153 times. Over 153 days. With training from an NFL place kicker.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:57AM
With training from an NFL place kicker.
Is Tom Dempsey still alive? [He had a malformed foot and kicked with a special squared off boot. He has the record for the longest field goal in NFL history.] Reminds me also of the line from some Monty Python skit "I think he should be kicked in the upper lip with a steel toed boot".
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:51PM
Welcome to foot... ball. [youtu.be]
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