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- From: jvaleu@boi.hp.com (John Valeu)
- Subject: Re: ANSWERING MACHINE MSGS REQUEST
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:54:39 GMT
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
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- This maybe funny (or maybe not, depending on whether or not you've
- ever been in this situation...).
-
- I was in the process of going through a real nasty divorce and was
- getting a lot of phone calls from my ex's three attorneys and the
- private eye that followed me around for 3-4 months.
-
- Finally, I had a wild idea (after a night of lotsa heavy drinking
- and inhalation of illegal substances). I recorded a busy signal on
- my answering machine (the outgoing message was 90 seconds...so I
- called myself and recorded 90 seconds of the busy signal).
-
- I then set the machine to pick up on the first ring. I only told
- those who I wanted to talk to about my little setup.
-
- At work I had the site receptionist take messages, so I was covered
- there. This worked for about 3-4 weeks and then my attorney told
- me that he had been taking a lot of messages for me because of my
- little stunt (but he thought it was great!). Shortly thereafter
- the phone company called (my wonderful ex called to see if my phone
- was off the hook, the phone company said that the connection was
- fine, they called and got a busy signal then sent a repairman over
- to find out what the heck was going on....
-
- To make a long story short, I was finally handed a court order (by
- two San Diego County Sheriff's Deputies) to make my telephone work
- again and I had to reset everything back to normal. The legal and
- financial harassment started up again but it finally all ended....
-
- I had about a month of peace and quiet, it was worth it (not to
- mention the pleasure I got out of watching all of these people try
- to figure out what the hell was going on...).
-
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