LOLZ N00B UR PWN3D
Posted on 04/09/2009 5:57:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A cell phone used by a Wyoming 13-year-old to run up a nearly $5,000 phone bill will text no more thanks to her angry father and his hammer.
Dena Christoffersen of Cheyenne sent or received about 20,000 text messages over about a month, and her parents' phone plan didn't cover texting.
Gregg Christoffersen said that he thought texting had been disabled on his daughter's phone, which he smashed hours after getting a phone bill for more than $4,750.
The family says Verizon has been willing to knock the bill down to a reasonable level.
Dena has been grounded until the end of school. She says she feels bad and has learned her lesson.
I find it hard to feel sorry for this family. Anyone can get texting blocked on his/her cell phone.
What the Hell is wrong with kids. They can’t just pick up a regular phone and talk all they want? How can you continuously communicate by sending out incoherent, half-sentences and smiley faces?
Some parents show an attempt at control. The hammer should have driven the point home. :)
> Dena has been grounded until the end of school. She says she feels bad and has learned her lesson.
Twitter-time.
They will text each other even though they are sitting right next to each other. I cannot stand to read texting shorthand. To me is shows nothing but ignorance.
There’s hope for her!
Reminds me of the time Dad tore up my Driver’s License for the SUMMER for not being home on time with his car.
Live and learn.
Does he/she qualify for a bailout?
Of course, done by a young girl.
Its surprizngly ez.
Maybe the high costs are for the better, if the charges end up being prohibitive enough to get someone's nose out of the phone's LCD screen and into real human interaction instead, or to discourage people from texting while driving.
LOLZ N00B UR PWN3D
u no?
Unlimited texting is the way to go.
We had what we had, they have what they like.
Not inconspicuously and surreptitiously, they can't. And that's a huge part of the appeal of texting.
Comments?
Ok — so figure (generously) 16 hours waking time — that’s 40 messages per hour non-stop for a month.
I’m with you on this. These kids are actually pathological. It’s as if they have no existence apart from engaging in silly tactile exercises. What a waste of time and life. These morons are the most benumbed and self-indulgent in history, bar none.
20,000 text messages comes to almost one every two minutes.
We had Verizon and I received a bill for downloaded games, I had requested that the kids could not download anything, slipped through the cracks. The order was never put in, I didn’t know until I got the bill.
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