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This woman has a Wi-Fi network in her Madrid aparatment, but the daughter was unable to access it from her bedroom consistently. So, she started using mom's 3G cellular modem, provided by the municipal government and paid for on a per-kilobyte basis, to download television episodes like 'Lost.' Many, many shows and gigabytes later, the mother was presented with the resulting bill and has pledged to repay the council. We hope the daughter at least foots a portion of that -- and that she has a better idea of what's going on in 'Lost' than we do. [From: El Mundo, via Fox News]
Teen Texting Craziness
Syracuse University professor Laurence Thomas made news last year for walking out of the classroom whenever his students disobeyed his "no texting in class" rule. Wouldn't the kind of student who would text in class be happy to have class canceled?
In January, 13-year-old Californian Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 text messages from her cell phone. Fortunately for her daddy, he had her on an unlimited text plan.
Two high school cheerleaders in Seattle were suspended from school in December when school officials found out that they had taken nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and, mistakenly or not, wound up with them circulating through the football locker room. The girls' parents have filed suit against the school. You'd think they would just let the embarassment die quietly.
In December, while on a class trip (according to an Internet rumor anyway), the above message appeared on 18-year-old Elizabeth Frisinger's phone after mistakenly texting her dad, back home in Cleveland, that she'd just lost her virginity. Whoops!
Outdoing Reina Hardesty, 15-year-old Ohioan Paige Hornev averages 15,000 text messages a month. That comes out to the impressive, or pitiful, average of 500 text messages a day.
Thinking about Emily Jenning's texting abilities just makes our thumbs hurt. The Vancouver, British Columbia teen pumped out an absurd 41,600 text messages in the course of a single month -- we did some quick calculations and that works out to about one text every minute.
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Subscribe to commentsMadMikeMar 13th 2009 12:05PM
I understand that these stories get posted to show how absurdly behind the times and greedy the cell-phone companies are - but all it does is make us regular people mad. Anyone who has any power to do anything, either doesn't hear about it or doesn't give a crap - and that's what pisses me off more. All these governments, and bending over to a stupid company. Goverments have armies with guns and bombs, (most) companies don't. All the Gov't has to do is tell Mr. CEO to stop being a greedy dick or they'll throw him in jail.
I mean, in 90% of the cases where the people get an astronomical bill the cell company ends up dropping it by a huge portion anyway. So OBVIOUSLY they know they f'ed up.
JerriApr 10th 2009 7:34AM
My generation had to deal with the bills from a regular telephone chat line that targeted teens in the 80's (one of the first 900-numbers). My daughter hid the telephone bill under her mattress so I wouldn't see it, because it was $600 for two months. That amount was comparable to $50k for me at that time, and my only option was to put a simple lock on the dialing mechanism of the phone. She and these "friends" would get on the phone after midnight so the parents wouldn't know about it until we'd received the bills. How far we've come. :-) Now my daughter has a daughter, so we'll see some payback here, I guess. She's still friends with some of the kids she met at that time -- almost 25 years later -- and even married the brother of the first girl she met on the chat line.
lil bittApr 10th 2009 10:31AM
once again another outrageous phone bill.... i would be in a coma right now if that was me.....