217,000 Text Messages!

Has anyone read about this? These two guy in Lancaster raked up a $26,000 cell phone bill in a month. They wanted to hit a new text record. Way to go, you're a winner!

So it seams T-Mobil set a cap of 100,000 text messages on their text plan. So these guys only got billed for 117,000 texts out of the 217,000 they sent. So if you have T-Mobil and you don't have an unlimited plan, you be spending about $26,000 for 117,000 texts. Now lets do some mat here.... if they were charged $26,000 on a little over half, if they were billed for the other half they would have spent $50,000 on text messaging! That's a lot of green backs!

Turns out T-Mobil said "Oh ya, you do have an unlimited plan. You don't have to pay us $26,000." But it turns out it also cost about $27 COD to get a cell phone bill that large in the mail.

In related news, I saw this when I first Googled this story. A lady named Wendy Nguyen went on vacation to come home to a $26,000 cell phone bill of her own. And it seems even if your phone is lost or stolen, you are accountable for the charges. So if you have Cingular and your phone gets stollen, call them ASAP or their advice for you if you can't pay that $26,000.... FILE BANKRUPCY! Good thing they got you by the balls. Any these crazy cell phone companies will have it no other way.

I know Verizon has me hooked. Their claws are in me deep. It's hard to move along to another carrior, when they want to whack you with this or that even if your contract is up.

Oh well, modern society and we are all attached to our little Gizmos. There is no escape from here.

I regress to a story of my past. These tales of whoa reminded me of an old story, not as funny or as significant as sending a record 217,000 text messages in a month, but equally as funny yo me. Flash back in time to 2004, Paul and myself had graduated from PSU and were moving out of our apartment. We were having the "Walk Through" with 2 guys, I should say kids, from the complex. It turns out there was a light missing from the vanity in the master bedroom. Well we never replaced a bulb in either of the vanities.

So they tell us we can run out and buy some bulbs, or we just pay them to replace it. So we are like you can just replace it. Then they say OK that will be $12 a bulb! $12 for a light bulb! That is un-acceptable! What do those things cost $.40? And this was to replace a bulb that was never there in the year we lived in that apartment.

So we went to Walmart to get some bulbs.
Then the wanted to charge us to throw away the packaging, because I forgot to grab it on my way out. Wow that walk to the dumpster was taxing.

So that is my personal story of an obsene charge. Again not as funny as two guys sending each other 217,00 notes over the course of the month. Note the sarcasim.

There has been a sighting of these two men together!
Be on the look out!

That is all, carry on.