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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:06:08 GMT
- From: barrey@Novell.com (Barrey Jewall)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Automated Hate Calls in Minnesota
- Message-ID: <telecom12.681.14@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In <telecom12.668.6@eecs.nwu.edu> drilex!carols writes:
-
- >> Apparently, people [in Minneapolis are getting calls] from a new kind
- >> of telemarketer slime encourageing them to hate minorites, Jews,etc. It
- >> sounded like the phone calls were comming from an automated dialer
- >> that plays a tape encouraging violence. The State Attorney General's
- >> office says that this doesn't violate any laws.
-
- Fortunately, in California there is a law that says that recorded
- announcements have to be preceded by a live human, which tends to
- avoid Sears calling me at 3:30 AM to tell me that my dishwasher (which
- I had not ordered) had arrived. This doesn't stop the calls from out
- of state, however, as the state of California doesn't do anything
- about 'em.
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Well what would you rather have, a phone call like
- > that or the Jehovah Witnesses coming to your door at 9 AM on Saturday
- > morning like they do mine? PAT]
-
- This was avoided by me rather simply. Upon arrival at our door, the
- JW's were greeted by two unshaven, slightly drunk men (me and a
- friend) one of whom was holding a Mossberg police shotgun. Jeff (my
- friend) cocked the weapon, and asked "you won't be coming back, will
- you?"...
-
- They never did.
-
- (BTW ... it was 7 AM, not nine, and we'd gotten home about four hours
- earlier.)
-
- Bah.
-
-
- Barrey Jewall - Network Admin. ++ and yea, though I walk through the shadow
- barrey@novell.com ++ of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am
- Novell, Inc.- San Jose, Calif. ++ the meanest sonofabitch in the valley...
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: For all the philisophical differences I have with
- JW's, I would rather have them as neighbors any day over the nasty
- people I deal with now. JW's are clean and very quiet. Their children
- are very well-behaved. Most of my neighbors now are like animals and
- Chicago is like a zoo where the violent animals are in control. PAT]
-
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