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Skriven 2013-06-08 17:10:34 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
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->  SR> I thought they got the Card Member Services jokers finally, but a
->  SR> similar outfit is calling again.
-> 
-> I got the number this latest outfit was calling from and reported it to 
AT&T.
-> Haven't heard from the "time is running out to lower your credit card 
interest
-> rate" doofi since. 
->  
They spoof numbers here.  

->  -> could call and attempt to make them lose my phone code. HAH. The 
call-back
->  -> number was as unintelligible as James' surname.
-> 
->  SR> That's the usual. They know if you're James you won't be calling, 
and
->  SR> if you're not they don't need to talk to you anyway.
-> 
-> They'll quit after a while. And then the Leech Collection people will
get 
a
-> new-hire who will get all the cases in the deadbeat file - and they will 
start
-> again.

That's how it goes.  I don't get those calls on my landline; we've had the 
number for too long.
  
->  -> back. I have to pay attention now." On the open road is one thing. 
but,
->  -> in high traffic areas .......
->  
->  SR> Yakking on the phone then is a good way to wreck at least one car.
->  SR> Maybe more than the car.
-> 
-> Texting is worse. I was stuck in a traffic jam south of Beardstown one 
fine
-> afternoon whilst the med-evac chopper picked up some young girl who had 
been
-> texting while driving, ran off the road, down an embankment, clipped a 
power
-> pole and got upside down in a corn field.

That happens fairly often.  I call it "Death by Stupidity".
 
-> Another time I was zipping along the interstate at 74mph (operating on 
what a
-> State Whip told me once - "9 you're fine. 10 you're mine") when another 
young
-> female came marching past me at a somewhat faster pace. Head down and 
texting
-> while steering with her knees. So, using my blue-tooth equipped cellular 
device
-> I whistled up the nearest state cop and ratted her out. Within a short 
time
-> here came Mr. Police in angry mode and snatched her up. When I went by
he 
was
-> explaining to her the error of her ways and (hopefully) issuing both a
-> high-speed driving award (worth U$140) and a texting while driving 
citation.
-> People like that are dangerous, as you note, and not only to themselves.
-> 
Most definitely.  I'd have ratted her out too.  Doing something that'll get 
you killed is one thing, but doing it while you could kill or maim someone 
else isn't allowed.  
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