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TEAR JERKER! Dead Daughter's Voicemails Erased by Phone Company
ABC News ^ | March 23, 2012 | By ASHLEY JENNINGS

Posted on 03/23/2012 12:06:48 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

For 51-year-old Faron Butler, the thing he cherished most after his daughter's death was being able to hear her voice.

"Every time I had a bad day or just wanted to listen to her I'd go through my old voicemails," Butler told ABCNews.com through tears. "I had one that I'd play over and over again. She'd be saying 'Daddy, I love you and I miss you.'"

He said he was shocked when a few weeks ago he went to hear that familiar voice, only to find out the voicemail had been erased

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This is SAD beyoud belief!
1 posted on 03/23/2012 12:06:58 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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Sad yes but? I copied the voice mails I wanted to save off line.


2 posted on 03/23/2012 12:13:21 PM PDT by Shark24
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That sucks.

There had to be a better way to back something like that up than just leaving it on a proprietary voicemail system.

SnakeDoc


3 posted on 03/23/2012 12:13:59 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)
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In fairness to the company, there is no way for them to know the value of old voicemails. . .in hindsight. .there are ways to record them and get them in MP3 format for your own archives. . .but sad, nonetheless. . .he’s grieving over losing his daughter. . nothing sadder than a parent losing a child.


4 posted on 03/23/2012 12:14:14 PM PDT by McBuff
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Dad has a voice mail from Mom that is similar. I really need to record that before something happens to it.

But the phone company is really being insensitive here. They have that backed up some where. They should make the guy a disk of the voice mails, and charge him $20 or $50 or whatever it costs. They guy would pay and that would be the end of it.


5 posted on 03/23/2012 12:15:45 PM PDT by DannyTN
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How much ya want to bet that the Phone Company is looking for these Voice Mails via BACK-Up tapes right now.


6 posted on 03/23/2012 12:16:25 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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Why is this not a surprise...

But Butler, who works for a labor union, said compensation isn't enough. He's hired attorney Chris Crew to file a negligence suit against the company, demanding them to tap into archives and retrieve the voicemails.

You know, I'm sorry you lost a link to your daughter. But suing for negligence is way beyond the pale.

7 posted on 03/23/2012 12:16:56 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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It’s sad but it’s not proper for a lawsuit. Data stored elsewhere isn’t forever, if he wanted it forever he should have stored it locally. My cable/ phone company has an online interface, I can download things straight, probably something similarly easy for him, he didn’t bother, not their fault.


8 posted on 03/23/2012 12:18:14 PM PDT by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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Sad? Yes. But it will probably be good for him in the long-run. The man needs to get used to not hearing his daughter anymore. She’s gone.

Wish him the best!


9 posted on 03/23/2012 12:19:31 PM PDT by libdestroyer
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I am so sorry for this being erased, but the guy was not wise in not recording multiple copies. I would have done this for the very reason of it getting erased.


11 posted on 03/23/2012 12:25:23 PM PDT by rawhide
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Have you ALWAYS been an INSENSITIVE A$$HOLE, or do you work at it?

Woah, take it easy chief! I've lost love ones too and I'm pretty sure listening to their voice wouldn't help my grieving process. I was making a decent point but you've de-evolved the conversation into the 6th grade. Congrats.
12 posted on 03/23/2012 12:29:10 PM PDT by libdestroyer
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Sad. A family member deliberately erased my dad’s last message to me off my answering machine. She meant well, but I’ve always wished I could have that back.


13 posted on 03/23/2012 12:29:14 PM PDT by jboot
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Have you ALWAYS been an INSENSITIVE A$$HOLE, or do you work at it?

I'm reporting this btw.
14 posted on 03/23/2012 12:31:43 PM PDT by libdestroyer
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wow... he didn’t save copies... that is whats really sad.


15 posted on 03/23/2012 12:32:25 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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I have a video with my wife on it (she died of liver cancer at 29). I’ve kept it since the mid 90s. It’s gone with me in every place I’ve lived since. It’s also unwatched. Because I know she is gone and that’s the way it is. I don’t need to watch it to get through the rest of life. But I know it’s there. And that’s good enough for me.

If this man needed his recordings to do what he has to do, then so be it. I’m sorry for both of his losses.


16 posted on 03/23/2012 12:34:29 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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I saved my copies by recording them on a cassette player. Not great but it worked.


17 posted on 03/23/2012 12:34:29 PM PDT by Shark24
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After I lost my dad I would routinely listen to the last voice mail he had left me...it was incredibly comforting and I was careful to save it each time. Then one day it was gone... deleted... just like that... turns out my IT group reduced the retention period and I had not been in to listen within the required window of time. I felt like I lost him all over again! Even now, 10 years later, I wish I could hear him say how much he loved me, just one more time again!
18 posted on 03/23/2012 12:38:58 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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I had a voice-mail from my wife who died. I listened to it every so often for a year. There does come a time when it is time to move on.


19 posted on 03/23/2012 12:39:59 PM PDT by coffeecup
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When our son was stationed in Japan while in the navy, I would listen to his voice mails. Yes, he called when he could, but on those long weeks when the ship was out and he couldn’t call, it was a comfort to hear his voice.

I grieve for this man. Several family members have lost children. I can only imagine what a blessing it would be to be able to hear their child’s voice again.


20 posted on 03/23/2012 12:40:53 PM PDT by sneakers (Go Sheriff Joe!)
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