Misleading people easy with cell phone

L. A. Daily News ^ | 6/25/04 | Matt Richtel

[stands2reason]

Eff up, sorry.

"You wouldn't really want your friends to know you're sparing people's feelings with these white lies," she said, laughing.

Just keep on laughing, you loser.

[Smokin' Joe]

Seems to be pretty standard. The adulterous worry about the partner's fidelity, then justify their actions by assuming their partner is being adulterous too. The relationship is already over...

[stands2reason]

I know, I thought it was dumb, too. No boss is going to call someone's date. Ridiculous.

[Smokin' Joe]

Nothing like sitting in a quiet place with the vocal stress analyzer on, practicing, practicing, practicing ...

[stylin_geek]

Interesting, I have first hand experience with that. My ex wife justified her adultery just as you described.

[kitkat]

***This is the fishiest thing I've ever heard... Why on earth would anyone have their boss call their blind date to explain why the date needed to be broken? This excuse would have been far more plausible if the girl had just called the date herself and given him this excuse, IMHO.***

My guess is that the young "lady" is so used to lying that she assumes everyone does it and her blind date would see through it. But a call from someone who sounds like a boss would convince the date.

[Thinkin' Gal]

"It lets you control your environment," said Harry Kargman, chief executive of Kargo, a New York company that plans to begin selling in July a variety of cell-phone sounds for $2.99, including the rasp of a hacking cough to simulate lung infection. "It's not necessarily malicious or nefarious," Kargman said.

Mr. Rooney knows who is behind all of this.

[kitkat]

This also opens up the possibility of being blackmailed by the person who offers to give a phony excuse.

[GreenHornet]

"It worked out pretty good," said Hall"

Kenny Hall, the 20 year old college student from Denver, is overlooking the fact that his little scheme has now been published in the L.A. Daily News, as well as on the internet. The word is out on you, Kenny. You're not as slick as you think you are.

[Lijahsbubbe]

So how do they know that someone in one of their little clubs might say they will call the girlfriend to tell her a lie, and actually call the girlfriend and tell her what's about to go down?

[Sonny M]

Cuts both ways. New cell phones could come with truth detectors built in as part of the programs. Gives a probability rating on a 1-100 scale that the caller is lying

Those portable lie detectors? The programs and the devices don't work to well. One of my buddies got himself one, dang thing was east to fool generally, and worse sometimes called the truth a lie.

[Thinkin' Gal]

So how do they know that someone in one of their little clubs might say they will call the girlfriend to tell her a lie, and actually call the girlfriend and tell her what's about to go down?

They don't, but since they choose to rely on liars like themselves, I doubt they care. "It's the thought that counts."

Amazing how much effort they'll expend in order to cheat and lie. Clintonoids and muslims, all ideological scammates.

[snowstorm12]

Maybe in the future your significant others will be able to spy on you with your own phone. It could be secretly rigged to send camera signal to them whenever they wished. ROFL

[GBA]

It's epidemic! bump.

[BenLurkin]

More proof, as if any were needed, that our society is desperately sick.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"I got a new girl, and she wasn't too keen on it," said Kyle Hanson, 21, who lives in Hamburg, Germany. "She thought it was immoral. Imagine that!"

On one hand I feel for the poor girl. On the other, she picked him.

[NRA2BFree]

It's epidemic!

Thanks for the ping! I can't believe that people actually belong to groups who's sole purpose is to lie and make alibis to unsuspecting people. Society is on the verge of total breakdown. The first time one of these clubs crosses the line and is party to a crime, the law can probably come after them under the RICO Act.

[aculeus]

Nothing new here. I hire a guy who pretends to be me on FR -- whenever I have "something else" to do.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I knew it!!!

[Smokin' Joe]

:) So did mine. I remarried far better 9 years later. Don't rush that.