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- From: Brady_David@Tandem.Com (David Brady)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Revenge on a telemarketer!
- Message-ID: <1992Oct17.003916.8990@tandem.com>
- Date: 17 Oct 92 00:39:16 GMT
- References: <1992Oct16.215138.22040@ads.com>
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- In article <1992Oct16.215138.22040@ads.com> Henry Mensch, henry@ADS.COM
- writes:
- >savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia) wrote:
- >-> This is down right rude and can also be dangerous to the person
- >-> on the other end.
- >
- >unsolicited telemarketing is rude. the boat horn is an occupational
- >hazard.
- >
- >--
- ># henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
- ># "fight the real enemy." -- sinead o'connor, and many others.
- ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^
- I believe the real enemy here is *aggression*.
-
-
- This is what I do:
- Answer the phone; determine that it is a solicitor; say "no thanks"; and
- hang up the phone.
-
- Easy - minimum of discomfort for all parties involved
-
- This is what you do:
- Answer the phone; determine that it is a solicitor; put the phone down;
- get the boat horn; put the boat horn at the ear piece; blast the horn
- (and cause the solicitor PHYSICAL discomfort); put the horn down; and
- hang up the phone.
-
- What do you do to boy/girl scouts selling cookies at your door?
-
- ==================
- [Kid rings doorbell]
- Ding Dong.
-
- [You open the dorr and the kid says...]
- Hi. I'm selling magazines for my high school band and....
-
- [You get out your boat horn and...]
- BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
-
- [The kid looks scared and wonders why his ears ringing.]
- ===================
-
- What's the difference between this and blowing out a telephone
- solicitor's ears? (Ah, I see. The phone solicitor would find it hard to
- fight back, whereas the door-to-door solicitor COULD fight back.)
-
- This whole boat horn idea is petty malicious. It is designed to infict
- discomfort AND is dangerous - I speak as someone with ears that could be
- damaged easily. Wouldn't a simple "no thanks" suffice?
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