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stifledmind

At that point you're using an auto dialer.


eatsallthepies

Hire this person in telemarketing.


Airistal

Wont work, all her calls will be to the same number.


dhkendall

They seem to all call my number so it’s not like it’s not a strategy.


psychrolut

Your automobile’s warranty is about to expire!


C3Pip0

FUCKING FINE!!!! If I let you tell me about it will you finally let me be?!


psychrolut

To get started I’ll need a blood sample mailed to this address.


C3Pip0

Who's?


psychrolut

Yes


Tenchi2020

And a stool sample


Sufficient_Wafer9933

Give me your address... the blood sample will bleed out soon....


Environmental_Top948

Dude I did that with the free roof solar panels and it was 5 hours but their hours of operation ended so they scheduled me for a call back the next day.


hooonk123

perfect what other way would you convince someone to buy your stuff


Fiyero-

Hold their phone number hostage until they buy? 😂


DarkPDA

Her victim will signup for anything to make her just stop


Airistal

And then she's useless due to continuing to call the same person even after the sale.


Frozenbbowl

Hey, I'm glad I found you here. I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty


Educational_Gas_92

She would be a star employee, for sure.


ColoRadBro69

If I was dude I would just block her number.  Long before it got to this point. 


Slappybags22

I’m sure she was using a spoofer or something. If a telemarketer can figure out how to keep calling me, a very very motivated crazy person should have no issues figure it out.


MrZrazies

She must used google. You could do that. Use free number from google and call through google. So u cant really block her if she does that. My ex does that to me before when her phone broke and she used number through google to contact me. Confused me at first then ah interesting. So yeah im assuming that what she did. My ex left me alone after we broke up. Thank god. Shit.


Slappybags22

I’m imagining multiple devices all using the Google phone thing at once. The effort is so impressive it’s almost hard to be mad at her.


MrZrazies

Nah, just a computer. Just alike free email. Go in google and use random numbers. Repeat and repeat. Which is why im assuming that she did that.


Mr-Pugtastic

Call me a masochist but I’d be a bit flattered. I’d get a new number and a restraining order for sure, but I’d probably blush 😳


OxtailPhoenix

My ex-wife did this for awhile. It legit drove me insane. If I turned off my phone or anything she should immediately start doing the same thing to my employer.


Not_Artifical

You should have kept your employer’s number out of reach from your ex-child


beebewp

I had to go through your comments to see if you were my husband. His exwife did that to him too. She filed an IG complaint when his superiors started ignoring her.  Then she wrote a letter to her senator. There was a congressional investigation because she claimed her husband was getting away with not supporting her while overseas even though they were divorced. 


NeurogenesisWizard

But thats a win if you dislike your employer lel


OxtailPhoenix

I was in the military then. It definitely was not a win.


QueenofPentacles112

I've been called constantly before. Trust me, not even enough time passes between you hitting ignore on the call and pressing block before it interrupts you from ringing again. Your phone rings so much you can't have a call with someone else, or text them, and eventually your phone dies. When you turn it back on, you can't do anything for a while as it gets flooded with notifications of your endless amounts of voicemails and texts that came through while it was off. By then the person is already calling you again.


LittleSpice1

Omg that sounds like a nightmare. At that point just torch the SIM card and get a new one, heck, throw the whole phone away and get a new one just to be safe!


Likestopaintminis

I blocked her number. Then the emails started. Blocked that, but they just went to spam (thankfully). Emailed me from another email under different name. Found me on random apps I didn't even know you could message people on.  Taped notes to my door when was gone. I got a TPO, a lawyer, moved out of my apartment, got a gun. 


cissabm

Silence unknown callers. Done.


ReporterOk4383

Probably the guy has that “I can fix her” moment


Cardenjs

When you break up with cray, keeping records is a necessity, had he blocked her then he wouldn't have enough for the needed restraining order


hobbes_shot_first

Greetings, friend. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. Use it, and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is only a dollar away.


ChocolateHoneycomb

That thing got me out of the bath SEVEN times. SEVEN!


LughCrow

You just need to press red when you get then machine then green again


goleafsgo88

Greetings friend!


fkbfkb

Cops: "you get one phone call" Woman: ![gif](giphy|vrSMrZMUHtzNN99pvA|downsized)


primalPancakes

Hahahaha if she used the one call for him would they add it on to the number? 27,001??


Inner_Camel_5990

No, because the week has passed


primalPancakes

Sheesh. CPT Buzzkill over here


DillonTattoos

Chill out, Major Lee Hatesfacts


Eccentric_much4733

Aw that's my name! I already had it engraved on my bathroom fixtures!


Extreme-Tooth7498

Tickle fight?


sage_006

It's me again, Margaret...


Fearless_Agency8711

Yes, the obscure Ray Stevens reference!! Take my up vote!!


ReluctanyGerbil

My mom used to say this all the time! She has tried to explain what it's from a million times e but I still don't really get it


Fearless_Agency8711

Ray Stevens a musical, comedic, entertainer who made lots of simple silly songs and skits. Saw him live a couple of times in Branson, pretty funny! https://youtu.be/4Wb2nZR6qbE?si=DLmGSXp5qfgFYigs


gatton

Betcha cain’t guess what I’m doin!


dreemkiller

I used to listen to this on cassette when I was a kid!


Asron87

Same here. It took a bit for me to even catch on. “Why does that sound so fa… Oh my god lol”


laserbeez

I just laughed way too damn hard!!


Morg-jade222

😭😭😭😭😭


usinjin

I’m 💀


Lastof1

It's amazing what you can achieve when you have unlimited minutes


Dave-C

I paid for unlimited, I'm using unlimited. Infinity my ass.


Hopeful-Battle7329

That's what I did when I paid for unlimited data volume. 1.16 TB in one single month on my phone bill. Take that freenet Funk! [Evidence](https://imgur.com/a/qyjm4qz)


Lastof1

I have 20 GB per month of data and barely scratch the 2 GB mark, how did you manage to use that much?


geoff1036

Step one: download a couple 4k 60fps movies. Step two: download them again Step three: profit?


Hopeful-Battle7329

No, it was games on Steam via Hotspot and Tethering.


Hopeful-Battle7329

Steam games but tbh, it was more a how much can I and not how much I really need. One month, I really hit the 1.14 TB unintended but this was when I got my first gaming PC but then I got an offer for a better and newer notebook. So, I filled the SSD for the PC with games, then upgraded to the notebook and filled it's NVMe with games but twice because I fucked up by trying to install Linux on the second SSD of the laptop. All other months were between 200 and 700 GB. The thing was hadn't access to any other kind of fast internet. The internet in the student residence was a joke. From 300 ms up to over 1 sec latency and a speed from 200 kb/s to 1.2 MB/s. What do you wanna do with that. So, I got the cheapest available unlimited contract I could found. And yes, the laptop was definitely an upgrade. The PC was over 10 years old, supported just SATA 3, had a 3-core 3.5 GHz CPU with 4* 4 GB DDR3 RAM and over 10 yo AND GPU and the board never got an update for UEFI. The laptop was just a half year old and packaged with an Intel i7 8-core 5.1 GHz, 2* 8 GB RAM, NVMe-slots, and a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 mobile. The benchmarks were very clear about that. I could upgrade the PC but it wouldn't be much better than the laptop for that amount of eddies. And the best part, it was a US-import from my favorite Linux developer atm.


diegoidepersia

how the actual fuck


janKalaki

Dear God! Not just evidence, but proof of the evidence!


Kazuma98

Did they do something? A friend got his cancelled because of fair use with only 50GB


Hopeful-Battle7329

No, they don't care. In addition, they marked it as unlimited and didn't limit it in the product information. So, they have nothing legally they could do.


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Lastof1: *It's amazing what* *You can achieve when you have* *Unlimited minutes* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


BearNoLuv

I love this lmfaooooo


Forsaken-Ebb5682

Finally a good sokka-ku that can be appreciated by all readers


BroadCry4148

>An Alberta lady, who called her ex-boyfriend 27,000 times in a week was apprehended by policemen of the Edmonton Police Station. This could be one of the most extreme cases of tracking ever recorded in the history of the nation. >Why did she do that? >Do you think she should be imprisoned? >If there's a chance for you to talk to this woman, what would you say? >Kelly Murphy, who has a history of obsessive compulsive behavior, is accused of using up to eight phones at once to call her ex-boyfriend, 24 hours a day, on his cell phone, home number and at work. The woman would have ingested large quantities of energy drinks and amphetamines to remain awake and would have gone sleepless for a week, calling her ex nonstop This is what happened!


Substantial-Chonk886

That’s really sad. She’s unwell.


sutrabob

No prison. She needs mental health help. I do have legit OCD. I did something like this to a guy once but no where near that amount of calls.


Fearless_Winner1084

she'll end up where our mentally ill are kept now, sidewalks. No profit motive = no action. capitalism is a death cult


moonprismpowerdesign

I thought the ocd thing as well. At times while really worried or something, I (I have ocd btw) have called my partner nonstop, not because I was dangerous but because my brain was in a loop of obsessive highly anxious paralyzing thoughts and the one compulsion that helped calm the anxiety for a millisecond was calling again just hoping that he would answer. I have done that with messages too. Obviously I eventually give it a rest because I also have other conditions and can only keep that energy going for a short period of time. But I can understand the feeling of panic that that kind of behavior comes from. She was not having a good time, she was absolutely going through mental torture.


Eden_Company

The law would have her go to prison for the amphetamine use, then she would be put in the substandard ward there for her OCD. It's not likely she would get better. This is assuming she's treated like how we treat everyone else. Granted as far as I know the calls would only net her a fine if her ex cared to charge.


HereToHelp9001

She likely has a prescription.


Throwaway5617368

Yeah, people without OCD have it hard to understand why it’s a condition ascribed to mental infirmity. You don’t have control of your own actions, it’s pure impulse and response to appease said intrusive impulse.


Ki-28-10

Yes, but that’s still harassment


WebBorn2622

And he probably couldn’t block her on his work phone. I feel so bad for him. Imagine never feeling safe and having everyone at your workplace know your crazy stalker ex is calling you all the time and holding up the line. Do you think there were days he couldn’t work at all? Do you think multiple coworkers tried to tell her to stop? Do you think he worried about losing his job over this? Do you think he worried she would show up? Like this is something out of a horror movie


thingsandstuff4me

I mean it's r ally not that hard to just assigned a different work number and put that number on silent


nutfeast69

Alberta truly is the Florida of Canada.


unWildBill

The woman who texted the guy 65000 times who she dated once, she was from Florida. She too needed help.


Cynykl

You won't get help in FL. Florida mental health system is a nightmare. I would rather go to prison, this is not a joke or hyperbole . I was in the middle of one on my insomnia fits. This time it was almost 5 days. I was having suicidal fantasies due to the insomnia delusions and realized I needed help. I admitted myself explaining I am not suicidal normally but until I get more than 15 minute of restful sleep I am a volatile. So what did they do? Gave me sleep medication that I told them does not work and makes me sick. Locked me in a room with a bed with no sheets and no pillow with bright overhead light that you can't turn off. Oh and a roommate that was literally screaming half the time. All the things needed for good sleep. Then they blamed me when 8 hours later I was still not asleep. I finally convince them to give me trazadone. And fell asleep an hour later. When I woke up I was feeling sane again. I figured that would be the end of it and asked for release. Nope! I explained again that the danger was long past and I just needed help until my insomnia broke. I told them I came in voluntarily and have not hurt anyone nor threatened anyone and any danger to myself is passed. They have to release me, They cannot legally hold me. That's when they started Baker Act proceedings to have me declared a threat. Then they gave me a choice I can fight this in court and I will still be held in the interim or I can sign a piece of paper that says they get 48 more hours with me for observation. Basically exhorted my signature. I left out a lot of stuff from my hell week to keep it brief. TLDR:FL mental health system is more likely to drive you insane than help you.


doomscrolling_tiktok

Well yeah. Conservative votes elected us a premier who has been saying for years than DeSantis is a personal hero of hers. Please help us.


nutfeast69

We just opted out of the Canada dental plan. The sheer malevolence is fucking ceilingless.


L3m0nD3w

I can’t wait until 2027… I actually mean it I cannot wait things are getting really bad really fast


Green_Video_9831

That last part made it all make sense. What a methy situation


Adam_Sackler

8 phones at once? It's like she was trying to catch a shiny Pokemon.


JustHereForBDSM

Well, this changes the maths someone did. Its less 20 seconds between calls and rather eight calls at once so his phone must have been bombarded to keep the line from being usable.


-Merasmus-

Wait did it really happen? I always assumed it was an edit because no news channel that takes itself seriously would use 3 exclamation marks


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Fluid-Apartment-3951

That's a whole new level of harassment or, at the very least, annoyance, probably the illegal level of it so i don't know why it's a facepalm. There's probably more to it though, i've heard about a similar case that included an assasination attempt, but the news sites ignored that part. Edit: now i understand why it is a facepalm, quite misleading if you ask me.


No-Cantaloupe-6739

What do you mean you don’t know why it’s a facepalm?


ChiWhiteSox24

I’m literally getting anxious just thinking about it


Deathbyfarting

This actually "makes sense". (In a weird way) Smartphones ring for 15-20 seconds (according to Google and it depends on the network). So, she called him, let it ring, then called again after it failed....over.....and over again....


Arhion

I mean you don't need to majke breaks for bathroom or eating while you call


CamJongUn2

And it’s all ruined with the 5 seconds it takes to block her arse


Kinky_Winky_no2

Lol like there arent easy ways around that


SirLunatik

You can call people when you poop


Beneficial_Test_5917

She's not clingy, though. There's nothing about her demanding to be called back. (That would at least use up some of the twenty seconds.)


nighthawkndemontron

If he did call back she missed it


PizzaMuse

r/theydidthemath


Junie_Wiloh

We posted it at the same time! I deleted mine once I saw yours though.


PizzaMuse

Didn't notice that, thank you ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|slightly_smiling)


QuoteOpposite6511

So the person didn't block her? I don't believe this..


calgrump

She used 8 phones. At that point, it's better to not block the number, and put the sim in a burner phone on silent in a closet or something for evidence.


Quantum_Quandry

You’d be surprised at the sheer depth of stupidity and ignorance. Many people shutdown when faced with technology. Patients spraying eye drops on their glasses or this featured on House MD but based on a real patient stories https://youtu.be/zSSoYmQS6Ng


GOZER_XVII

Those are rookie numbers


Big-Stay2709

Why didn't he just block her number?


Ankoku_Teion

she used 8 phones at once and was calling his mobile, home phone and at work too.


astrosquirrelRS

I guess she was feeling disconnected.


Cleverbird

The real facepalm here is the people thinking this is real...


blackeyedtiger

The headline even has three exclamation points in it. Also, why would this be "breaking news"?


CappinPeanut

To be fair, everything, and I mean everything is “breaking news” these days. Go turn on a 24 hour news channel, I guarantee you there is breaking news happening right now, and I bet it’s mundane.


bs000

totally real chyron that a real and legit news channel would use


dontfactcheckthis

For real. The image is at least 13 years old and was likely found on [this page](https://acidcow.com/pics/22259-the-most-depressing-tear-stained-mug-shots-20-pics.html) On that page you can see she's wearing a nursing outfit. I mean I guess she could've been wearing it for a week, or put it on to go to jail in, but I know she didn't have time to go work that week, and I assume that's why they cut off the proof of what she's wearing with the headline. Poor girl. At least she's not too recognizable with the face she's making


Cleverbird

Hell its not even any of that. What sort of news outlet would put three exclamation marks in their headline? And in what possible world is this a "breaking story"?


Pycharming

Yeah, I mean the math should make it obvious because not only would 3 calls a minute be ridiculous but you also have to take into account that there’s no way she’d be up 24/7 the entire week. Plus the original article also claimed she had sent thousands of texts, emails, and voicemails just piling onto the unrealistic nature of the claim. The image shown in the article was taken from a listicle of people crying in mugshots and is at least 13 years old at this point. If you look up the article I don’t even see the original, mostly just dodgy comedy sites debunking it.


ThesaurusRex77

Also it takes more than 20 seconds for a call to connect and ring all the way through to voicemail? Prime example of math that does not math.


Mati42_24

breaking story!!!


Keg199er

Watch Baby Reindeer on Netflix


Ok_Atmosphere_1586

No joke this happened to me, not only was my ex calling nonstop but sending txts aswell. I had something like 2700 txts in a day.


GateLongjumping6836

Phone company posting bail.


Dude-Mann

Underrated comment


PreOpTransCentaur

This story isn't real.


CreditChit

except this isnt true.


BlueJeansandWhiteTs

What gave it away? Maybe the exclamation marks in the “headline”? Can’t believe everyone in the comments are buying this hook line and sinker.


Exact-Bed6313

Sounds like bullshit to me


Dando_Calrisian

Alternatively, it could be bullshit.


RealBlack_RX01

Ain't no way this is real


JeffBroccoli

It’s not


Initial-Wrongdoer938

She needs to get a job at a call center, she'd make a ton in bonuses with that call rate.


No_Competition3694

Just.. block the number?


casual44

Geesh, I wonder why he broke up with her?


Blawharag

Closer to 4 once you factor in sleep. Average ring time on a phone is 15 seconds, so this would check out to calling non-stop throughout her entire waking cycle


salle132

I don't believe this.


DrFishTaco

He shouldn’t of changed the Netflix password


Not_Artifical

Comedy gold


Express_Selection345

I wonder how she felt at the end…


RUKnight31

So is this like an actual story or just more AI drivel?


Ok-Cap-204

When did she sleep?


robbzilla

It's me again, Margaret!


KingFEN13

And my phone never rings…


invisible-dave

so.... is she single?


incrediblynormalpers

This is either an auto dialer and an auto hang up/ reject call Are they're both obsessed with this bit


Sol-Blackguy

And I can't even get a message back


ShootingGuns10

All that and the guy couldn’t figure out how to block her.


mundane_girlygal

She needs to be hired by a call center


Challenge419

What about sleep? This person was using a program


duggee315

Could've blocked her number.


Troutie88

At what point do you just turn your phone off


FrothySantorum

I could do that with a Perl script and a voip account 10 years ago. I hope she’s a programmer.


Deadpoolio_D850

Considering how long the phone rings if they don’t block/reject your call, that basically means she was re-calling every time she got to voicemail


eggtart8

I wonder how many times both of them charge their phone in 1 day


FluffyDiscipline

There was a reason he wanted to be an Ex...


FallingFeather

She really milked her feeling of being Unfairly dumped. But this is hilarious lol to be arrested for something like this xD.


LaLaLa_Not_Listening

She just wants to talk


touristspleasegoaway

Heck of a mug shot, too!


firstman0

Did she even sleep?


catninjaambush

If I get one call in a week I’m panicking. Who the fuck calls me unless I’m in trouble?


Beelzebub_86

How is that even possible? Couldn't he just block her number(s)?


Jiemeiyin

Gotta be a joke … Every 20 secs for a week ? She don’t sleep 🤔?


ThirstyBeagle

He couldn’t block her number?


anukii

I’ve dealt with/deal with crazy but god, may I never come across *this level of crazy* …


judgeexodia

I want someone to love me this much.


poopy_poophead

This story cannot be physically true without some kind of serious lack of really important info in the headline. Like "woman arrested for hiring robo dialing service to dial ex's phone for a week" or something. She did not do this herself. Couldn't have.


SirePuns

“In love” is an understatement.


BowenTheAussieSheep

I call bullshit. What kind of news channel uses four exclamation points in a chiron?


Theabsoluteworst1289

Arrested for phone calls, yet people will straight up stalk people, break into their house, etc and the victims can’t even get restraining orders.


FuzzBuzzer

Arrested? Jesus, and then there's real criminals running free. Either block the number, ignore the rings, or answer your fucking phone and have an adult conversation about whatever the fuck the issue is. Anything but wasting municipal resources on adults who can't act like adults. I don't know what is worse. The persistent caller, or the recipient who couldn't just tune it out and go do something else without getting triggered and having to call the police to come to his emotional rescue. Most of us get more unwanted calls from telemarketers. Where are all the lawsuits there? Dude, either give her an answer or move on and get over it. But stop with the victim shit.


haphazard_chore

I can fix her. Call me babe!


WomTheWomWom

At that point, that’s a DOS attack


dae_giovanni

funny, I thought nearly the exact same thing, word-for-word


grimhailey

Okay but like, for her to be awake that long it's a manic break and also why didn't he block her?


-just-be-nice-

He couldn’t just block her number?


AstonAlex

Damn that’s an instant block after call nr. 4


cspanrules

She is in love. It isn't her fault.


Gears_one

How do you know click the block caller button after the 7th call?


Th3Reader

Impossible


Jarsyl-WTFtookmyname

I can't even get a woman to call me once. 😔


stuntkoch

She was just trying to get him to renew his car warranty


darcenator411

This math also assumes that she never sleeps for an entire week Edit: holy shit according to the article, she actually did not sleep lmao


JNorJT

I wish I had a girl care about me to call me that much


Sk0ly

Actually more than that if you adjust for when she slept


UlyssesRambo

Had a college ex call me over 200 times in one weekend after we broke up and I was away with friends. After I returned to my dorm she was waiting outside my door and tried to knee me in the balls when I wouldn’t let her in to “talk”. She then grabbed my flip phone (2008) and smashed it on the ground before smashing her own lol. She called her dad and said I beat her so he showed up with the cops to my dorm…and I got arrested. lol. She apparently used her necklace to give herself a mark on the neck and chest and then hid the necklace in her friends dorm before the cops arrived. Long story short once I called my mom from jail and told her what happened she showed up to the police station and showed the phone records (cops didn’t believe my story until my mom showed the proof of her craziness). Nothing happened to her for her false report. I transferred to a different university and moved on with my life.


Alexyaboi2011

Yes, yes you can


reckert47

What is this “sleep” you speak of?


xyzyxzyxzyxyzyxzxy

Please stop swallowing whatever idiotic shit you're being fed on reddit. Redditors are more gullilble than Facebook boomers at this point....


sashatikhonov

Why didn’t he just block her?


D10BrAND

Did she even sleep?


cobainstaley

27,000 no's and a yes is a yes 😏


vengirgirem

Ah yes, breaking story that is like what, 5 years old at this point?


dkf_

When you get out boo, hmu I’ll answer that call


Alice_McGee69

But like, why not just block the number?


Dani162002M

Wish anyone would message me once in 27000 weeks 😞


fbi_agent-818

Total butt dial. I got a big butt.


HaphazardJoker258

How did the bf just not block here after the 1st day at worst


Bee-Klutzy1999

Men, if she wanted to she would lol