Posted on 05/25/2010 4:38:52 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A mobile phone company has suspended the number 0888 888 888 – after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.
The first owner Vladimir Grashnov – the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel which issued the number – died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.
Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.
The number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss, Konstantin Dimitrov, who was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500 million drug smuggling empire.
Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a model.
Russian mafia bosses – jealous of his drug smuggling operation – were said to have been behind the killing.
The phone number then passed to Konstantin Dishliev, a crooked businessman, who was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia after taking over the jinxed line.
Dishliev, an estate agent, had secretly been running a massive cocaine trafficking operation before his assassination in 2005.
He died after £130 million of the drug was intercepted by police on its way into the country from Colombia.
Since then, the number is understood to have been dormant while police maintained an open file on Dishliev's killing and his smuggling ring.
Now phone bosses are said to have suspended the number for good. Callers now get a recorded message saying the phone is "outside network coverage."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I guess they did not want anymore customers behind the 8 ball.
I’d wager that everyone that is issued a phone number will eventually die.
You heard it here first!
This is nothing compared to the body count being racked up by that extremely deadly chemical dihydrogen monoxide.
suspended? phooey! I want to give it to....
So it was the NUMBER! Being a mob boss or drug smuggler had nothing to do with it...
ELAINE: Bobby, you gotta stop calling your Gammy.
Why?
Because sometimes you call very early in the morning when Gammy has been out late the night before and sometimes when Gammy’s not alone. Your parents still haven’t said anything to you about your Gammy? (sighs)
All right, here we go. (coughing) Gammy doesn’t feel so good. I think Gammy might be dying. Yep. Yep. Ok. Good-bye, Bobby. Don’t call anymore. I’m dead now. Gotta go.
Oh that is a dangerous one and should be banned! *sarcasm*
Hmm...so, yeah, if I were an organized crime member involved in drug smuggling and with hundreds of violent people after me who happened to be professional killers, there’s no way I’d use that phone number. Too dangerous.
“...shot while eating out with a model...”
Post alternate punchlines, if you dare.....
Ironically that number would be seen as lucky in China where their phones likely was manufactured.
Who has 0666 666 666?
“..Post alternate punchlines, if you dare.....”
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I guess he “eight” it. 888 888 88888
That might have been funny at any other website. /h
See, it worked, because luckily for the Chinese, this phone was sent to Bulgaria.
It doesn’t sound like the number had anything to do with it. Mob boss is a dangerous occupation.
Call and find out. Probably someone with very large ears with a wife with a very wide...
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