"Folks at the Dollar General in Grafton say in the past few days, several men have come into the store attempting to buy large numbers of prepaid phones. However, store policy only allows a customer to buy two phones at a time, in fact, they are locked away from the general public.
The clerks say after they were in the Dollar General, the men went to the Grafton Walmart to try to purchase more of the phones."
FYI, Grafton is a small town in north central WV. The kind of place where a "stranger" sticks out like a sore thumb. Not the kind of place where you won't be noticed trying to pull stunts like this. ;)
So much for the "dumb hillbilly" myth. ;)
I have to ask...any mention, in the local WVA news of the ethnicity of the strangers? Just curious, as there are some 11 or so Egyptian 'students' currently unaccounted for.
Oh yeah, and the Tygart Dam is nearby. Not the Hoover, by any means, but it could do a nice bit of damage.
"FYI, Grafton is a small town in north central WV. The kind of place where a "stranger" sticks out like a sore thumb. Not the kind of place where you won't be noticed trying to pull stunts like this. ;)"
I spent a couple weeks there back in 1976 with a friend who was raised there. What a nice place, nice people. There was a lake called Tygart Lake. Very nice. Population is about 5500 people.
If someone has dozens and dozens of prepaid cell phones they are likely to be illegally modifying them from limited minutes to unlimited minutes. There is a software hack that can do that. The phones are then resold on the street to people with the promise of unlimited minutes. The hack and modification is a federal crime.
So much for the "dumb hillbilly" myth. ;)
Not hillbilly, Appalachian-American.
Cheers,
OLA