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Weird Pre-Paid cellphone story (vanity)
7/14/08 | self
Posted on July 14, 2008 5:59:07 PM PDT by WoofDog123
Over the years I have read stories on FR about reports of muslim males buying huge numbers of pre-paid cell phones, often triggering calls to law enforcement. While I don’t generally discount reports from local media outlets (remember the OU bombing?), it seems crazy that this would be going on with nary a peep from other sources. Here is my odd story about this.
~3 months ago I was in New Orleans, and purchased a prepaid cell phone at a story on Royal street almost at canal (quarter-side). The store proprietors were obviously muslim, don’t know if pak. or arab. While the salesman was very helpful, and I paid (cash) and got my cards and phone, I then asked another 40’ish employee some questions, which he totally and completely ignored - no eye-contact, nothing. He did talk to and answer questions to a latino (in accented and somewhat broken spanish, which I am fluent in) with no apparent issue. Note that I am white (anglo-american, whatever) and clearly from the US by speech.
I then asked him more questions, such as why he ignored me, which he continued to do. I then told the original salesperson that I would like to know why this person would not speak to me. He made an apology and said other people had made the same complaint. I told him that if they did not already have my money (cash) I would certainly have walked out (it is a fact that I needed a phone immediately and would have been pressed to find the time to argue or call the police (the NOPD, mind you, though they would possibly look out for an apparent tourist in the quarter) for a refund, since the phone cards I had bought had already been loaded into the phone by the ignoring-me employee, while he ignored me.)
Then, after leaving the store, I began using the phone, and realized from the call history it had been used 3 times previously, *6 months before*, in oct 07, to 3 different numbers, 3 different area codes (one was miami, one i think was nyc, don’t remember the other but geographically distributed), and then not used again.
This made me remember the stories about masses of these phones being bought up by muslim groups of men. What if they are being used as one-time numbers, then reboxed and sold via such outlets?
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