Phone rage leads to arrest here for Ohio man

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ^ | Matthew Hathaway

[kenth]

An Ohio man, fed up with deceptive junk mail, made the mistake of losing his temper while on the phone with a St. Louis company pitching an extended auto-service contract. Now he finds himself behind bars, where he is charged with making a terrorist threat.

[rawhide]

Bond is set at $45,000.

[thefactor]

so he would most likely have to come up with $4,500 to get out. guess he’s hurting financially.

[rawhide]

I guess so.

Tracie Papenfus said she still can't understand why her husband is held 450 miles from home at the St. Louis workhouse on a $45,000 bond she can't afford to pay. (That amount could be lowered at bond-reduction hearing scheduled for Monday.)

[ErnBatavia]

At the old office, we'd get tons of junk calls asking for the model number on the copier as their opening spiel.

My sidekick told one "Sure - hang on while I check."...left on hold for three minutes, then I picked up and asked the guy if he'd been helped and he said, "Yes - John's getting the serial number off the copier".

I laughed and told the clown, "No wonder John ran off to the public library - that's where we go for our copies".

[CrazyIvan]

My mother-in-law once received a phone call from a vinyl siding installer.
She told the person on the phone, “Sure, come down and give me a quote.”

She had a BRICK house. LOL.

A friend of mine who is a shrink got a similar call. He enthusiastically asked the salesman if the siding would stop the rays that his neighbor was beaming at his house to read his mind. End of call.

[papasmurf]

Horse puckey. They should give him the key to the City.

[MarineBrat]

The guy said he’d burn down the building of those lousy telescammers, and now he’s in jail. I’ve been taking up a collection for this man here at FR. So far I’ve got fifteen gallons of gasoline.

[rawhide]

Lol, good one!

[TSgt]

I got several calls from them...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/ftc-nukes-extended-warranty-robocallers-from-orbit.ars

FTC nukes “extended warranty” robocallers from orbit
If you live in the US, you’ve probably received illegal telemarketing calls claiming that your car warranty is about to expire—even if you don’t own a car. The brazen “extended warranty” scam has now been busted by the Federal Trade Commission, which filed a pair of federal lawsuits to take over the companies behind the calls.

[Deo volente]

That’s great news!

I guess that’s why the two or three calls I was getting each week have stopped...

[SteamShovel]

I hung up again without saying a word.

I never answer the phone anymore.....

.....and I alway hang up on them if I somehow end up talking to them because somebody else answered the phone and gave it to me.

[a fool in paradise]

Weren’t these callers with the “car warranty” extension calls revealed to largely be a multi-state scam?

[WOBBLY BOB]

Some screamed in terror and hung.

that's what she said.

[SJSAMPLE]

LOL.

...up.