Re: Japan: Prankster caught for harrassing operators

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

Anyone who does tech support knows that some calls you get, seem to be 
just because the caller is lonely.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

> I don't know exactly why, but this story tickled my
> funny bone. :-)
>
> Via PhysOrg.com.
>
> [snip]
>
> A man who called a telephone directory service for no reason more than 7,000 times was arrested Tuesday, Japanese 
> police reported Wednesday.
>
> Hideo Shimizu, a 63-year-old unemployed man, was taken into custody by the police in Mie prefecture, southern Japan, 
> for allegedly calling NTT's directory services over 7,000 times between November 2004 and January 2005.
>
> Shimizu would usually call when drunk and try to pick fights with phone operators who would take his calls. Of the 
> 700 operators who worked at NTT's Nagoya service center where the calls were taken, 60 said that they felt ill as a 
> result of his continued prank calls.
>
> Shimizu said he made the calls because he felt lonely since his wife died three years ago. On the day of his arrest, 
> he had already called the center 12 times.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://www.physorg.com/news7178.html
>
> - ferg
>
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