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Age 38, Male
Philadelphia, PA
Joined on 1/12/05
Posted by Timmy - October 19th, 2010
Here's an article from the most recent edition of Reader's Digest (yes, I read Reader's Digest - the jokes are hysterical) that discusses how ripped-off consumers are getting back at shady companies.
Pushed over the edge by one telemarketing call too many, a justice-seeking vigilante decided to get even with his auto-calling tormentors in 2009. Auto One Warranty Specialists was the target of our hero's righteous ire. The still-unidentified citizen was being bombarded by unsolicited robocalls from the Irvine, California, company, which was trying to sell him an extended auto warranty.
Rather than slam the phone down, he stayed on the line long enough to jot down the company's phone number. He then posted it on the social news website reddit.com, urging fellow frustrated call recipients to give the company a dose of its own medicine.
Soon disgruntled customers and Internet crusaders were flooding the company's phone lines with junk calls, elevator music, angry rants, and even Rick Astley's cringe-inducing 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up."
The outcome: The deluge of calls overloaded Auto One's phone lines. Even the Missouri attorney general jumped in. Last December, he sued Auto One's parent company, Credexx Corporation, accusing it of robocalling people on the state's do-not-call list. The company agreed to pay a $75,000 fine to settle the suit.
Posted by Timmy - September 10th, 2010
I mean - everyone knows that the average human is just dumb as sin.
You see the statistics (eg: only 57% of Americans know that the earth revolves around the sun, or whatever it is) and you hear about crackpot theories that are alleged (Secret codes in the Bible/Qur'an/Phonebook).
But you don't really acknowledge how incredibly dim the human race is until you run smack into it.
And the internet allows me to smack into the idiocy that runs rampant within the human species on a more regular basis than I would like.
Take this Comments Section from a relatively straightforward article about a newly discovered dinosaur: