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Old 08-29-2008, 03:44 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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I privately know several of our local deputies. It's not that they don't care, they are so frustrated sometimes of having their hands tied. Our boys with badges seem to care here in Polk the most of anywhere I've ever lived. When it comes to phone crime if they can't eve drop how would they find out who it is?? This is a serious problem for our seniors especially. Getting solutions that the ACLU would tolerate that would stop the strange phone calls maybe just a tad bit of a problem too. I get a lot of hangups. I always wonder why? I'm thinking up a new answering machine message to the tune of "I can't come to the phone at the moment because I'm busy cleaning my new gun".
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Old 08-31-2008, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Florida
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when people call and start asking questions I always say "my moms not home right now." and they hang up. ....its kinda fun! my mom doesn't live w/ us and I'm 26 but it works. =)
your nice .. i just hang up.
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Old 08-31-2008, 10:12 PM
 
Location: Wilmington, NC
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This is exactly why I have caller ID. If it looks like a telemarketer phone #, I just don't answer! Or I pick up the phone and hang it right back up without even saying "hello".

I used to answer and tell the person to take me off their calling list (they are legally obligated to do so if you ask). But the foreign idiots don't understand what I am saying and hang up.

Many companies are sending their customer service and sales departments to foreign countries since the labor is cheaper overseas. The person that called you was probably going to try to sell you something later in the phone call. Either that, or they were going to "pretend" to sell you something to get your credit card number. I don't think they were looking to break in and harm you.

In the future when people call for "surveys" I would recommend hanging up after quickly saying "don't call back". You never know who the person on the other line really is.
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Old 09-01-2008, 12:03 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I would have told the guy that I was poor, All I owned is a telephone and 13 inch black and white t.v. and that I had nothing worth an alarm system.

that would have turned him away faster then telling him you had a high tech system, guns, dogs, ect, ect..

atleast IMHO..
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Old 09-01-2008, 12:53 AM
 
Location: Tampa, FL
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Would have also said that I had an active case of tuberculosis and leprosy.
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Old 09-01-2008, 04:59 AM
 
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Great advise...I love all the things I can use next time.
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Old 09-01-2008, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Sunny Florida
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I would have told the guy that I was poor, All I owned is a telephone and 13 inch black and white t.v. and that I had nothing worth an alarm system.

that would have turned him away faster then telling him you had a high tech system, guns, dogs, ect, ect..

atleast IMHO..
Good morning! Thank you for the good laugh! You guys are all so funny. Now I have a full arsenal when I answer the phone and it's a telemarketer. Happy Labor Day!
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