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- From: neilw@informix.com (Neil Williams)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: How do I handle Phone harassment?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct12.211949.21237@informix.com>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 21:19:49 GMT
- References: <1agj04INN5ef@aludra.usc.edu> <cT2gsB5w165w@pcsnode.uucp> <1992Oct11.152712.4956@eng.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Oct11.152712.4956@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
- >In article <cT2gsB5w165w@pcsnode.uucp> bazelmans@pcsnode.uucp (Rudy Bazelmans) writes:
- >>
- >>Simply report them to the phone company. They will handle it.
- >
- >The phone company in all probability will do nothing. Their department
- >that deals with investigating abusive phone calls is so swamped with
- >work that you will probably get nothing but a busy signal when
- >you try to call them.
-
- My experience backs this up. My (now) wife had been receiving
- harrassing phone calls for several months before she called the
- phone company. They told her they couldn't do anything and that
- she had to file a police report.
-
- --Neil
-
- --
- Neil Williams: neilw@informix.com
-
- Seen on my last trip on United: "If you are seated in an exit row
- and can not (sic) read this card... please notify a crew member."
-