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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mom Gets $50K Bill After Teen Downloads 'Lost' via Cell Phone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/03/13/mom-gets-50-000-bill-after-teen-downloads-lost-via-cell-phone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/03/13/mom-gets-50-000-bill-after-teen-downloads-lost-via-cell-phone/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.<br><br>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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MadMike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 13th 2009 12:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mom Gets $50K Bill After Teen Downloads 'Lost' via Cell Phone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/03/13/mom-gets-50-000-bill-after-teen-downloads-lost-via-cell-phone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/03/13/mom-gets-50-000-bill-after-teen-downloads-lost-via-cell-phone/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 10th 2009 7:34AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mom Gets $50K Bill After Teen Downloads 'Lost' via Cell Phone]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/03/13/mom-gets-50-000-bill-after-teen-downloads-lost-via-cell-phone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/03/13/mom-gets-50-000-bill-after-teen-downloads-lost-via-cell-phone/</guid><description><![CDATA[once again another outrageous phone bill.... i would be in a coma right now if that was me.....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lil bitt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 10th 2009 10:31AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
