Posted on 03/06/2018 3:47:21 PM PST by ml/nj
My phones are ringing off the hooks with robocalls from smug politicians telling me that it's going to snow tomorrow. (I listened to the first ten seconds of the first call.) So far my town and my county, judging by the caller-ids, have called. (Their system isn't sophisticated enough to recognize that they are calling duplicate addresses so I get two of each of these annoying calls.)
How stupid do these people think we are? What do they think we all did before they had their "emergency phone system"?
ML/NJ
I get these calls every time a tornado comes through, usually about 20 minutes AFTER the tornado has passed us.
The technocrats have a captured audience in the dumbed-down leftists.
The rest of us just get ticked off by it.
There is always an aging leftist hag behind every nanny state idea.
Our county emergency management has a robocall system. They don’t overwhelm it. Emergency Manager Rick Ayers has become a friend. He’s got me on speed dial and only calls when things are bad.
Last week, during the high wind nor’easter it was handy. Two major bridges had semi’s blow over, then they had to close them. Very wise decision that resulted in 40 mile backups.
He’s the only one who ever calls. No politicians.
Same here. If it is important, they will leave a message. Or if they DO leave a message, and I recognize the caller, I’ll then pick up.
But sometimes I have fun, and answer with a loud “hallaaaooow”? And then talk in the same loud annoying way. They hang up.
ATT is awful!
Agreed! We have a stack of documents and papers six inches high.... just what we had to go through to get our damned ATT bills corrected.
Ripoff!
We will never patronize ATT again
We don't have Food Lions here. I have enough beer and Bourbon to get me through, thank you.
ML/NJ
But you must have milk sandwiches and pizza omelettes!
The definition of emergency is constantly being broadened. In a few years, a light rain will be a national emergency.
Warren County is great but unfortunately it’s on the wrong side of the Delaware.
If you send $1 to Happy Dude, the calls will stop.
“Get off my lawn!” says it all. Great movie!
Pinging for my parents...
It is better than the 4-6 calls per day from US Pharmacy wanting to sell me Viagra. Three years after Sweet Hubby went home to the LORD he is still on their call list. UGH!
It works for call from North America. But it does not stop calls from overseas from US Pharmacy. The callers from Pakistan and India are relentless.
Bkmrk.
It works on any call that comes in no matter where from. They can sometimes disguise a blocked id with zeroes and hyphens, but then you just block that one too. Eventually they run out of permutations.
I have an app called Hiya on my cell. It has been good at screening, ID, block, etc. If it stops performing well I will try Mr. Number. Thanks.
It worked on everything except US Pharmacy. Eventually the devise filled up and/or had a melt down. It also labeled itself as unavailable, toll free, city of (name of city), invalid number, authorized, ...The area codes are from all over the planet: Quebec, Canary Islands, Ceylon, Taiwan, ...Ugh!
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