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| +--+ | +-- | Phone Losers of America Issue #037 +--+ | +-- | |
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| -+ ---+ -+ -+ December 20, 1995 -+ ---+ -+ -+ |
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| - * - We wish you a Merry Christmas! |
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| /////|\\\\\ PLA Christmas Carols - Colleen Card |
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| //////|\\\\\\ Send-A-Song Services - RBCP |
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| | Getting The Most From FACS - RBCP |
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| H What's The Deal With The 512 VMB? |
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| Ramblings by Apok0lyps |
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| PLA Headline News |
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T'was the night before Christmas and all around the house, not a creature was
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stiring except for Redboxchilipepper who was rummaging through this innocent
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family's network interface box, clipping their lines and running a long
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extension cord down the block into his own house so he could call a bunch of
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900 numbers. (Well, okay, so it doesn't rhyme, sue me.)
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This entire issue is in ASCII. Aaaaarrrgh! YOU can change that, though. E-mail
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me at whombat@blitzinfo.com and tell me if you prefer issues in ASCII or ANSI.
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Registered voters only, please. This entire issue is for entertainment purposes
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only. We're not responsible for your stupidity. We're also not responsible if
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you don't find this issue entertaining. (Hey, we're not responsible for OUR
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stupidity, either...) Oh, and Merry Christmas!
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Would you like to be able to get the 0day PLA? Now you can! I've started a PLA
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mailing list. If you'd like to be added to the list or know of somebody else
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who wouldn't mind being on the list (such as president@whitehouse.gov), e-mail
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me at whombat@blitzinfo.com and tell me in 1500 words or less, why I should add
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you to the mailing list. ("SUBSCRIBE PLA" is acceptable) You'll be the first to
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get every new issue, along with updates and the quarterly Phone Book. If you've
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ever e-mailed me before, chances are that I already added you to the list. Also
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I'm working on making a new PLA web page so if you want to check that out, try
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http://www.blitzinfo.com/users/whombat/pla.html.
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To help spread the holiday cheer I included an article that'll aid you in
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defrauding Send-A-Song so you can send some holiday cheer to your loved ones
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by phone. And to your hated ones, you can send LOTS of holiday cheer, again
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and again, day in and day out for hours straight, song after song, note after
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note until their ears bleed from hearing WAY too much Garth Brooks. So, enjoy
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this issue of PLA and be sure to e-mail some holiday greetings to all the PLA
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members, listed at the bottom of this issue. But first, read this transcript
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of a phone call with the billing operator we had the other day:
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WEST: US West Repair, how can I help you?
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RBCP: Hi, I'm having a little bit of trouble on my line here.
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WEST: Could I get your area code and phone number?
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RBCP: Yeah, it's 503-xxx-xxxx
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WEST: And what seems to be the problem?
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RBCP: Well, early this morning I went out in my yard and you know the network
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interface box that's way up by the roof? Well there was some kid up
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there with a big orange phone plugged in so I picked up a brick and hit
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him with it and he fell down and ran off but the orange phone is still
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hanging out of my box
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WEST: Was this a U.S.West employee up there?
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RBCP: No, it was just some kid. I think he was one of those phone phreaks but
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it's really messing up the reception on my phone and I tried hooking up
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a wire coat hanger and some alluminum foil into the phone but it's still
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pretty fuzzy sounding.
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WEST: Okay, I can send somebody out there today to take care of it. You say
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there's a phone hanging out of the box?
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RBCP: Yeah, I would take it down myself but it's way up there by the roof and
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I don't have a ladder. There also seems to be new wires running from the
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telephone poll and into the box. I could yank those down but I don't
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want to get electrocuted or anything.
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WEST: Oh, there's not enough power in those to electrocute you.
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RBCP: Yeah but there's also some Christmas lights running from the telephone
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poll into the box and they're lit up and also the cable T.V. wire is
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going in there and I just don't wanna touch anything.
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ZAK: And then he hooked up a remote control to the phone and he's been
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driving it all over the house!
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RBCP: And he painted my network interface box red, too.
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WEST: Am I speaking to William right now?
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RBCP: Yes, this is WIlliam.
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WEST: Could I get your street address, William?
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RBCP: I can't really give that out because it's unlisted.
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WEST: Well, I have it right here in front of me, I just need to verify that
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it's correct.
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RBCP: I read this newspaper article about fraudsters who will call you up and
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try to get your pin number and everything.
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WEST: Well, I work for U.S. West, I just need your address and you called ME.
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RBCP: The problem is that the four numbers in my address are the same as my
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pin number and the article said that they'll try to trick you and say
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they work for the phone company.
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WEST: But you called me.
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RBCP: You might have somehow reverse-engineered me to call you. Maybe you're
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responsible for that kid up in my box.
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WEST: Sir, is your address 1584 Columbus, apartment C??
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RBCP: Yes, that's the one.
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WEST: Okay. (typing) You say that there's Christmas lights hooked up in
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between your phone box and the telephone poll?
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RBCP: That's right.
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ZAK: And they replaced the phone handset with a bologny sandwhich.
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WEST: I'll try to have someone out there before five today.
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| New Generation Christmas Carols - by Colleen Card |
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Find all your old christmas carols, put them in a box and burn them. They're
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old, outdated and boring. Here are all the new songs that you'll hear the litle
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brats singing in church this year.
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"Charlie The Lineman" - by Colleen Card
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sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman"
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Charlie the lineman had a very handsome hat.
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When he wore it out, all the kids would shout,
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"Someday I will steal that!"
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Charlie the lineman liked to drink beer with the boys.
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He'd listen to a country tune,
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while he'd play with telco toys.
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There must have been some magic in that big green joint they found,
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'Cause right away he began to play and 'ol Charlie danced around.
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Charlie the lineman was as sad as he could be,
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For he'd lost his job when Bell found out that he'd been smokin' weed.
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Charlie the lineman yelled out, "I'll be back someday...
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I know some tricks and I'll give them out!" Oh, this lineman's gone astray.
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"On Little AT&T Fone Center" - by Colleen Card
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sung to the tune of "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
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Oh little AT&T Fone Center, how many toys you sell,
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They help us to defraud from you even though you wish us well.
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We love you PBXes, your calling cards are grand,
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And in your undying love for us, you still hold out your hand.
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Oh little AT&T Fone Center, your operators are the best,
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They're nice to me when I make calls, pranking all the rest.
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We make their jobs exciting and some days it is hell,
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And even though THEY don't accept, you still wish us well.
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"PLA is Coming To Town" by Colleen Card
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sung to the tune of "Santa Claus is Coming To Town"
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You'd better watch out, you better be nice,
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Better kiss ass I'm telling you why,
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PLA is coming to town.
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We're making a list, checking it twice,
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Gonna find out who's paying the price,
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PLA is coming to town.
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We'll call you when you're sleeping,
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We'll call you when you're awake,
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We'll call your mom and dad for you,
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So leave town, for goodness sake!
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You'd better watch out, you better be nice,
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Better kiss ass, I'm telling you why,
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PLA is coming to town.
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"We Three Phreaks From PLA Are" - by Colleen Card
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sung to the tune of "We Three Kings of Orient Are"
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We three phreaks from PLA are,
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Pranking people from near and from far,
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Finding their numbers, finding their names,
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Fone company tells us all.
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Chorus:
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O--- Telco friendly, telco free,
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Telco come and dance with me,
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Dreams I see them, can't redeem them,
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but I've got an operator's key.
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We are born to freedom and strife,
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Anger crashing all of our lives,
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Pick up a fone, leave me alone,
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I think I'll just call your wife.
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(repeat chorus)
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Kardz and k0dez to offer have I,
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Go to Radio Shack, red boxes I buy,
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Cactus, cactus, cactus, cactus,
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We promise to make you cry.
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"Have yourself an Evil Little Holiday" - by Colleen Card
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sung to the tune of "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
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Have yourself an evil little holiday,
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Break into a fone,
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Make free calls all over,
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Including Rome!
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Have yourself an evil little holiday,
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Make an operator scream,
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From now on it's funny just to be mean.
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Here we are in olden days,
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Happy golden days of bore,
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Greedy relative who want a calling card,
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Pinch my cheek too hard once more.
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Available telcos, everyone's inside now, ripping open gifts,
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Oh what a great security r-i-f-t!
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Have yourself an evil little holiday now!
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O Telephone Pole" - by Colleen Card
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sung to the tune of "O Christmas Tree"
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O telephone pole, o telephone pole,
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You rise so high and mightily,
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O telephone pole, o telephone pole,
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You rise so high and mightily.
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Your pegs are strong in summer's heat,
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And frosty in the winter sleet.
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O telephone pole, O telephone pole,
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You are brown and mighty.
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"Anarchy" - by Colleen Card and RedBoxChiliPepper
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sung to the tune of "Jingle Bells"
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Running through your yards, popping open cans,
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Sometimes clipping wires, then we eat some spam.
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Stealing people's mail, toilet papering trees,
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Running from the cops and feds that chase us in the breeze.
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Oh, anarchy, anarchy, set their yard on fire.
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Hit their window with a stick and loosen up their tires.
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Fuck the Bells, Fuck the Bells, burn their building down,
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Dive into their dumpsters when rent-a-cops aren't around.
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"The Twelve Days of Christmas Revised" - by RedBoxChiliPepper
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On the Twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
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Twelve Virgin Visas,
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Eleven black tone dialers,
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Ten stolen P.C.s,
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Nine lineman's handsets,
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Eight Motorolas,
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Seven operators,
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Six red box crystals,
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Fiiiiiiive E.S.N's.
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Four cans of Jolt
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Three fake I.D.s,
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Two airline tickets,
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And a janitor job at AT&T!
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| Send-A-Song Services - by RBCP |
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One ad that I've been noticing popping up in every mall in the country the last
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few years is the Send-A-Song service. It's an 800 number you can dial and using
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your Visa or Mastercard, you can send the song of your choice to any phone
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number in the United States. The fax I received from them states, "In minutes,
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you can choose the perfect song, add your personally recorded greeting and
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specify a date and time for delivery. The Send-A-Song can be ordered for
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immediate delivery or up to six months in advance. Delivery is guaranteed."
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Using your V/MC, the price for this service is $9.95 for one song or $24.95 for
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three songs. Sort of pricey, but for cardholders like us, money is no object.
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This service is perfect to make your fellow phreaks smile or to make security
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officials cry when you send them "Happy Birthday" by the New Kids on the Block,
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300 times a day.
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The only drawback is the lame selection of songs they offer. You can send some-
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one a traditional song by various artists and they just started getting REALLY
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hip and adding in alot of country songs. (gag) The best you can hope for is an
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old top-40 song that isn't too nausiating. And if you're just sending a song to
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annoy someone, they've got great selections. One song that I've been asking
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them to get for me is, "I'll be watching you" by the Police. That would be great
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for certain occasions...
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When you call their 800 number to make your selection, you have to dial the 800
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number direct, or at least make them think you dialed direct. (Don't call from
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your house direct, of course.) In the past, I've usually used remote access call
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forwarding, but your best bet would be to walk a couple blocks to the nearest
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pay phone. You can't just op divert. If their system doesn't get an ANI, you'll
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be switched over to customer service, who won't be able to help you at all.
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Send-A-Songs phone numbers are as follows:
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800-272-SONG (7664) Order center, fully automated, Visa/Mastercard
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800-999-7635 Customer Service
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800-915-3443 SAS Retrival Center (In case you weren't there to get your song.)
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Here's a list of songs you have to choose from when calling 800-272-SONG:
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Happy Birthday
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1101 Happy Birthday - Bing Crosby 1102 Happy Birthday - Eddie Howard
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1106 You Say It's Your Birthday -Beattles 1103 Happy Birthday - Instrumental
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1105 Happy Birthday - New Kids on / Block 1103 Happy Birthday - Sunsetters
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1107 I Wish I Were 18 Again -George Burns 1108 Young At Heart - Frank Sinatra
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1109 Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder 1112 Much Too Young - Garth Brooks
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1114 Happy Birthday Baby - Ronnie Milsap
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Friendship
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3001 Thank You For Being A Friend - Gold 3003 You've Got A Friend -Carole King
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3002 That's What Friends Are For -Warwick 3004 You've Got A Friend - J Taylor
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3007 Friendship, Friendship - Ray Charles 3008 Lean On Me - Bill Withers
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3011 Diamonds/Best Friend - Marlyn Monroe 3010 You're The Top - E. Fitzgerald
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3014 Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks 3012 Stand By Me - Ben E. King
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2119 Anytime You Need A Friend - Mariah C 3015 I Get By With Help - Beatles
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3016 From Our House To Yours - Lorrie Mor 3017 Who Can I Turn To - Tony Bennett
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3018 Forever Friends - Sandi Patti 3019 Friends - Bette Midler
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Love
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2001 I just called to say I love you - SW 2002 You are the sunshine of my life
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2003 Nobody does it better - Carly Simon 2004 I had to say I love you - Jim
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2013 Listen, do you want to know a secret 2006 Crazy For You - Madonna
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2015 Love Me Do - Beatles 2017 You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cker
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2021 All Shook Up - Elvis Presley 2022 Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
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2024 One In A Million - Larry Grahm 2027 All of Me - Frank Sinatra
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2025 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 2029 Your Song - Elton John
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2031 Through The Years - Kenny Rogers 2032 You Decorated My Life -K Rogers
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2035 Theme from Mahogamy - Diana Ross 2033 Endless Love - Diana Ross
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2039 Woman in Love - Barbara Streisand 2040 Memories - Barbara Streisand
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2041 Annie's (??) Song - John Denver 2042 Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
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2045 Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothrs 2049 It had to be you - Harry Conick
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2050 When A Man Loves a Woman - Michael B 2055 12th of Never - Johnny Mathis
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2056 Always on my mind - Willie Nelson 2058 Live for Lovin' You - Gloria Es
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2060 Love of a Lifetime - Firehouse 2061 Wind Beneath my Wings - Bette M
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2062 You Light up my Life - Debbie Boone 2063 I Don't Know Much (But I Know I
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2064 Unforgettable - Natalie Cole 2068 Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
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2070 Everything I do for you - Bryan Adms 2071 Here and Now - Luther Vandross
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2074 Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin 2077 You are my lover,my best friend
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2076 I want to know if I can be your girl 2078 Have I told you lately i love u
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2081 Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel 2082 Wild Thing - The Trogs
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2085 The Way you do the things you do 2087 Baby I need your lovin' - 4tops
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2086 I wanna be loved by you - Marlyn Mnr 2088 Can't get enough of your love
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2091 I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newt Jn 2093 Dedicated to the One I Love
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2097 My girl - The Temptations 2098 Love of my Life - Carly Simon
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2099 I will always love you - Whitney Hou 2101 Just A Little Love- Reba McEntr
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2102 Have I Got A Deal For You - Reba McN 2103 Two of a kind - Garth Brooks
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2104 All of me loves all of you -George S 2105 I still believe in you -Vince G
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2106 I swear - John Michael Montgomery 2107 Love can build a bridge - Judds
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2108 Shameless - Garth Brooks 2110 Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynet
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2111 Help Me Make It - Sammi Smith 2112 I Get A kick Out of you - Frank
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2113 Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton 2114 Whatta Man - Salt N Pepa
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2116 On Bended Knee - Boyz II Men 2117 After The Lovin' - Engelbert Hu
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2118 I'd really love to see you tonight 2416 Be my baby tonite - John Montgm
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2417 I'll make love to you - Boyz II Men
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Anniversary/Wedding
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2501 The Anniversary Waltz -Richard Tuckr 2502 Always & Forever - Heatwave
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2503 More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral S 2504 You're my best friend - Don Wil
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2506 Could I Have This Dance - Anne Muray 2509 You're the best thing that ever
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2510 You Again - Forestar Sisters 2511 Chapel of Love - Dixie Cups
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2512 Our love is here to stay - Harry Con 2514 Happy Anniversary - Little Rivr
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Love/Sexy
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2401 Nobody does it better - C Simon 2402 Why Don't we get Drunk -J Buffet
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2404 I'd love to lay you down-Conway Twit 2409 Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
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2410 Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocals 2411 I feel like makin' love - Bad Co
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2412 Let's spnd the nite 2gether-R Stones 2413 Make it with you - Bread
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2414 Let get it on - Marvin Gaye
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Humorous
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5001 It's hard to be humble - Davis 5002 Love Stinks - J. Geils Band
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5003 Macho Man - Village People 5004 My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
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5007 Hound Dog - Elvis Presley 5008 I Like Beer - Tom T. Hall
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5009 Take this job and Shove it -johnny p 5010 Let go get stoned - Ray Charles
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5012 Men - Forrester Sisters 5013 What part of no...-Lorrie Morgan
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5014 Let's chase each other around the rm 5015 Another one bites the dust-Queen
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5016 Whoomp, there it is! - Tag Team
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Missing You
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7001 Far Away - Carole King 7002 Missing You - Jim Reeves
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7003 I miss you - Harold Melvin 7004 Wishing you were here - Chicago
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7006 Missing you now - Michael Bolton 7007 What'll I do? - Linda Ronstadt
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7009 Hangin' In - Tanya Tucker 7010 My World is empty without you
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7011 Just to hold you again - Mariah Cary 7012 Nights are forever without you
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7013 Can'nt stay away from you - Gloria E
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Congratulations
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7101 What A Wonderful World 7102 Happy Birthday (new baby) - Suns
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7103 Calebrate good times-Kool & The Gang 7104 Climb every mountain
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7105 Let the good times roll -Ray Charles 7106 Everything's coming up roses
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8011 Impossible Dreams - Jim Nabors 7107 Walking Away a Winner - Kathy Mt
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7110 Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
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Apology
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7501 I'm sorry - The Platters 7502 I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee
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7503 We bury the hatchet - Garth Brooks 7504 You're right, I'm wrong - George
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7505 Call Me Irresponsible - Tony Bennett 7506 Hard for me to say sorry-Chicago
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7508 Sorry seems to be the hardest word 7509 Can't Live - Mariah Carey
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7510 From Now On - Michael Bolton 7511 Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
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7512 Words Get In The Way - Gloria Estefn
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Cheer Up/Get Well
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7701 Don't worry, be happy - Bobby Mcfern 7702 Don't you worry 'bout a thing-SW
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7704 Here comes the sun - Beatles 7705 Gray skies are gonna clear up
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7706 The sun will come out tomorrow-Annie 7708 I feel lucky - Mary C Carpenter
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7709 Unanswered prayers - Garth Brooks 7710 Put yourself in my shoes-Clint B
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7715 Get on your feet - Gloria Estefan
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Family Songs
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7801 We are family - Sister Sledge 7802 Having my baby - Paul Anka
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7803 I want a girl just like that girl 7805 Daddy's little girl -Mills Bros.
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7806 Mammy - Al Jolson 7807 Mama - Jerry Vale
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7809 I'll always love my mama - Intruders 7812 Oh my papa - Eddie Fisher
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7817 Mama sang a song - Bill Anderson 7818 Home - Alan Jackson
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7819 Daddy's Hands - Holly Dunn 7820 Working class hero - Alan Jacksn
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7821 Leader of the band - Dan Fogelberg 7822 I thought he walked on water
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Thank You
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3102 I thank you - ZZ Top 3104 Thank you - Ray Boltz
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3103 You made me so very happy - Blood,ST 3105 I owe you one - Aaron Neville
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Miscellaneous
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8022 Happy Trails - Roy Rogers 8023 On The Road Again - Willie Nelsn
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8024 The Dance - Garth Brooks
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So fire up your favorite C-Master program and start sending songs to your loved
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ones (and not so loved ones). It's easy, it's fun and it's FREE! "Send-A-Song
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plays approximately an 80-second segment of the song you request, usually the
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most familiar verse and chorus. You may sample 3 songs for 15 seconds each when
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placing your order. The Send-A-Song automated delivery service will call the
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number you specified at the time you requested. If an answering machine picks
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up or someone else answers and your person isn't there, we'll leave a message
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which will allow the recipient to call back and receive their S-A-S. If there is
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a busy signal or no answer, we'll keep trying..."
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| What Is The FACS Office And What Can It Do For You? |
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Are you tired of people changing their phone numbers, making them unlisted and
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password protecting their phone accounts so that you can't bug the hell out of
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them for weeks on end anymore? Well, that will no longer be a problem for you,
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once you've obtained the FACS number in your area.
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The FACS acronym means Facilities Administration and Control System, but most
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Bell employes refer to it as either "Assignment" or "FACS", pronounced "fax."
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This office can take any address or phone number in the area that it covers
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and give you every single number that goes into the entire building/house.
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This can be extremely useful for a variety of things, including...
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* Getting the unlisted number of someone who's just changed their number.
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* Finding out what the additional lines are going into someone's house.
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* Finding out what the data line is to a certain company or individual, such
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as your schhool or place of employment.
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* Finding out every number of a business, including every one of their ring-
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down numbers, data lines, pay phones on the premises, credit card lines,
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ATM machine lines, lottery machine lines, etc, etc, etc.
|
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* Want to know more about someone? Get all of the neighbors' phone numbers in
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his/her apartment complex, call them all and ask questions...
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* Tired of that asshole sysop? This will give you all his voice numbers.
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The list could go on forever. Your local FACS number is a valuable thing to
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have, no matter what you're using it for. And it's really easy to get ahold of
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and use. Even easier than the CN/A and they don't require a password! (None
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I've encountered, anyway.)
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How To Get A FACS Number:
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Getting the FACS number is easy, yet tedious and you'll usually end up being
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put on hold for a few years before you finally get it. All it requires is a
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single phone call to the billing office. The residential billing office will
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work just fine but it'd be best to go with the business billing office
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because they answer the phone a lot quicker and are trained to be more
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courteous. Residential offices treat you like shit. So, grab your phone book,
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turn to the front few pages and look up the number for the Billing Office for
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Business Accounts. Call it. (It really doesn't matter if you divert this call
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or you dial direct.) Type a few random selections on their automated menu until
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you get a real operator. The conversation would go something like this...
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OPR: Southwestern Bell, how may I help you?
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YOU: FACS? I need you to check on an address for me.
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OPR: I'm sorry? You've reached the billing department.
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YOU: What? This isn't Assignment?
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OPR: Nooooo, this is the RMC.
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YOU: Hmm, in my handbook it has you listed as the FACS. Do you happen to have
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the FACS number there in your handbook?
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(At this point, some of the more clueless employees will ask you exactly
|
|
what FACS is. Just explain that it's the number you use to find out what
|
|
lines are going into a certain address, if they ask.)
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OPR: Let me check here for you...Are you with Southwestern Bell?
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YOU: Yes, this is Greg Carson. I'm a lineman. Phear me.
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OPR: ...Okay, the number I have here is 1-800-673-7286.
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YOU: Isn't there a regular number in there that's not toll free?
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OPR: Hmmmm...yes, there is. It's 210-xxx-xxxx.
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YOU: Okay, great! Thanks alot, you putz, you just gave me the information I
|
|
need to cause alot of misery here in town! Bye! <click>
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And that's about all you have to do. If you're unlucky with one operator, try
|
|
right back with another operator. Usually the only problem I encounter is an
|
|
operator that doesn't know what FACS is or doesn't know where to find the
|
|
number for it, even if I explain to them it's in their handbook. A few of the
|
|
operators have actually called up the FACS office themselves and run the
|
|
addresses for me, THEN they gave me the number to FACS. U.S.West, you gotta
|
|
love 'em.
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You're best off with a number that's NOT toll-free. Mostly because the FACS
|
|
toll-free numbers that I've dealt with only let you dial from within that
|
|
state, making the number useless after I moved. Besides, dialing the 800
|
|
number would mean a permenant record of your number on their bill. Try to get
|
|
the billing office to connect you to the FACS the first time, then ask the
|
|
FACS office what their direct line is, to make it easier for you to call.
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- Dealing With FACS Once You Have The Number -
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|
|
Okay, good job, you got the FACS number. The rest is easy. It seems that every
|
|
FACS's main security proceedure is to ask, "Do you work for us?" If you confirm
|
|
that you do work for them, you've passed the test and they'll tell you anything
|
|
you want to know. So far, in my experiences, this holds true for Southwestern
|
|
Bell, GTE, U.S.West and Ameritech. (GTE being the friendliest and most
|
|
helpful.)
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|
The area that one FACS office covers varies with all the different phone
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|
companies. When I dealt with Southwestern Bell, it only covered my city and
|
|
nowhere else but with Ameritech, the office covered an entire third of Illinois.
|
|
The GTE number I had covered the entire state. (But just the areas serviced by
|
|
GTE, of course.) If you reach a FACS office that doesn't cover the region
|
|
you're looking for, they'll almost always happily give you the number you need
|
|
to access the area you need and will sometimes connect you to it.
|
|
|
|
When you finally call FACS, you'll be pretending to work for the same company.
|
|
I usually claim to be a lineman because I can think of more excuses to their
|
|
questions. Sometimes I try being a billing office operator. Whichever you're
|
|
more comfortable with. The conversation will go somewhat as follows...
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|
(FACS offices are notorious for making you hold forever. Better bring some
|
|
coloring books to play with while you wait. I've had to wait for over a half
|
|
hour before...)
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|
FAC: Can I help you?
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|
YOU: This is Paul from Ameritech, I just need for you to run an address for me.
|
|
FAC: Okay, which office are you with, Paul?
|
|
YOU: I'm not in an office, I'm working in the field in Bloomington, Indiana.
|
|
FAC: What is it, exactly that you need?
|
|
YOU: Well, I'm in a telco can here and I'm trying to sort out all the lines
|
|
for a building down the street. I just need you to read off all the cable,
|
|
pairs and numbers going into this address here.
|
|
FAC: Okay, and what's the address?
|
|
YOU: It's 1313 Mockingbird Lane SE
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|
|
(Note: You HAVE to know the exact address, including whether it's a Lane,
|
|
Street, Avenue, Etc. and if it's got a SE (SouthEast), NE, NW, SW in front
|
|
of it or after it. If one little measley thing is out of place, it won't
|
|
come up on their computer.)
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|
|
FAC: (type, type, type!) Okay, I have three lines going into that address with
|
|
room to add one more line. I have 656-0284 on cable 10 and pair 758, then
|
|
656-2913 on cable 10 and pair 720, and 656-0831 on cable 10 and pair 402.
|
|
YOU: Great! Any other lines going into that address?
|
|
FAC: Nope, that's it.
|
|
YOU: Okay, then. Thanks alot and have a good day!
|
|
|
|
It's probably not a good idea to ever insult the FACS lady and/or harrass her
|
|
after you've gotten the information you need. This will just piss her off and
|
|
make her know she's been had, thus tightening security for everyone else who
|
|
calls after that, including yourself.
|
|
|
|
If you're wanting to check on multiple apartments in a single building, you'll
|
|
have to ask them to type in each individual address, such as 1313 Mockingbird
|
|
Lane SE Apartment 12, 1313 Mockingbird Lane SE Apartment 13 and so on. Some of
|
|
them have actually been nice enough to fax me the list of numbers if it's a
|
|
really large list. (You can have them fax it to a copy shop for you, or a
|
|
number diverted to your house.)
|
|
|
|
If you don't have their correct address or don't have an address at all, you
|
|
can still ask them to check a number for you. When they ask for the address,
|
|
give them an address which you know doesn't exist. Frustrated, they'll finally
|
|
ask you for the phone number and they'll run it off of that. Usually, you'll
|
|
also get the address this way, but not always. Sometimes they'll want you to
|
|
read off the work order number. Just tell them that you left that in your
|
|
truck and your truck is two blocks away and you're too lazy to go get it.
|
|
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
| What The Hell Is Going On With PLA's 512 Voicemail Box?? |
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
Well, in a nutshell, it's going down. If you're one of the people who used to
|
|
call 512-703-8910, enjoy it while you can. I bought the voicemail expecting to
|
|
use it for YEARS, paying for it legitimately with hard earned cash even. (Well,
|
|
probably stolen cash, but it's legitimate on their end, isn't it?)
|
|
|
|
First of all, they moved locations which changed my VMB number. (If you don't
|
|
remember, the details on that one are outlined in a previous PLA issue.) Last
|
|
week I called them to arrange my six month in advance payment like I always do
|
|
and they informed me of a slight change in rates.
|
|
|
|
Usually it would only cost me a flat rate of $7.50 a month, nothing else. NOW
|
|
they want to charge $7.50 a month which will allow the box to be accessed only
|
|
thirty times in a month. That means I'm only allowed to have one single call
|
|
on it per day, including myself calling in to check messages. That's okay,
|
|
though, because for each additional call over 30 a month, they charge an access
|
|
rate of 42 cents. Only 42 cents, that's not so bad, is it?
|
|
|
|
Well, I asked them how many times my box had been accessed last month and they
|
|
checked and told me only 283 times. I quickly grabbed my pocket calculator out
|
|
of the holster on my belt. Dead batteries, so I found a pen in my pocket
|
|
protector and did some quick math and figured that I'd be paying $118.86 per
|
|
month for my additional calls, plus the $7.50 per month just to own the box.
|
|
And the guy on the phone didn't seem to think that was just a little outrageous.
|
|
He promised me that someone would call back, but nobody ever did.
|
|
|
|
So, I've stopped paying and I've also made a lot of collect and third-party
|
|
billed calls to my VMB number. As of this writing it's still up and working but
|
|
it should be going down really soon. I just hope that some horrible holligan at
|
|
random doesn't call up the voicemail company and offer to pay for my box a year
|
|
in advance with their credit card. Now that would REALLY piss me off! (ahem)
|
|
|
|
I strongly urge anyone who reads this, never to call and harrass the employees at
|
|
512-458-6005 or 512-472-3535, especially Ann. She's a really nice lady and
|
|
doesn't deserve to be phoned at work and rude, horrible things said to her. And
|
|
if you're ever in Austin for a HoHoCon Convention or any other reason and you
|
|
just happen to be walking around downtown and pass by 1011 San Jacinto, please
|
|
don't throw any bricks through that beautiful picture windows of theirs. And
|
|
whatever you do, don't ever go inside to the room with a big "300" on the door
|
|
and super-glue their locks shut or steal all of their mail. That would REALLY
|
|
upset me. Especially if you happened to be carrying a one gallon bucket of
|
|
hot pink latex paint and you spilled it all over the hallway there and some of
|
|
it splashed on their door. Gee, I hope HoHoCon IS in Austin next year...
|
|
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
| Ramblings by Apok0lyps: 618 ReVieW |
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
|
|
Awww yeah! R0y in da house! Ok kids, here's what's been going on
|
|
in the good old 618 latley. (LIke any of you really care)
|
|
|
|
First off, there was the short lived Booty Call BBS. Zak, Nekid Amy
|
|
[the girl from PLAGIF07], Zensless1, Quinbus Flestrin, dhate and myself set
|
|
it up one night out of sheer boredom. We wanted to see who all would call and
|
|
act like an idiot. We used the names Papa Ray, Fly Honey, M.C. K0sh3r, D.J.
|
|
Skratch -n- Sniff, Jermaine and Big Mack as the sysops. About 40 people fell
|
|
for it. I deleted the bbs later and forgot to save all the mail and shit, but
|
|
none of it was worth reprinting. Basicly we set it up to look like a bbs ran
|
|
by gansta rappas, but that failed. Everyone just logged on and played Studs
|
|
and shit. No one posted or anything. A few people left us feedback trying to
|
|
act like nazis and shit. Those people were Ramsey and Skinhead. What idiots!
|
|
|
|
Next, there was the saga of #rock. It is still going on today.
|
|
Basicly what happened was El_jefe (Zak) went into #rock because that's where
|
|
[Z3ns] (Zensless1) liked to hang out. Some stupid bitch called El_jefe an
|
|
asshole. Now while not totally untrue, it was enough to piss him off.
|
|
He had [Z3ns] op him, then he bankicked everyone and took over.
|
|
After that had become boring, he left. Later he came back and it was empty.
|
|
So he told everyone else and we all started hanging out in there, taunting
|
|
those who would come in. We still use it every night, and taking it from
|
|
the losers as become easy. Doing things like netsplit hacks gets old fast,
|
|
so you have to trick them. My favorite trick is to make them run PLA.IRC,
|
|
a script written by dhate. Not only does it make them say fruity things like
|
|
"I Wanna suck dick in the name of r0y!" and "I love to jerk of to pix of
|
|
Nekkid Amy!!", but it also adds "+ +" to their .rhost, mails me with their
|
|
passwd file and floods certian people with an ls of their entire system.
|
|
|
|
Other days we would do shit like choose countries to envade, but
|
|
that would result in us getting kicked pretty quick. But then there was
|
|
#heislord. Now you may remember good ole' Scott the Beleiver and is fat ass
|
|
daughter Chatty. Well, when Scott was brave enough to irc, he would go hang
|
|
out in #heislord, an all christian channel. Well, back in the day, we would
|
|
go in there and annoy the hell out of Chatty and Scott, but they quit ircing
|
|
all of a sudden. (Wonder why??) We quit going in there regularly until the
|
|
other night. We were all hanging out in #rock being bored when dhate msged
|
|
us to come to #heislord. We went and the stupid fools had just oped him.
|
|
Now, they generaly NEVER op someone that hasn't spent tons of time in there
|
|
kissing ass. But for some reason they decided to be the Good Samaraton with
|
|
dhate. Bad mistake!
|
|
|
|
We went in there and deoped everyone. Then started busting out with
|
|
our usual insults "God molested my kids" and shit like that. Zak has a way
|
|
of pissing them off real good. The best part was when a few of them tried
|
|
to spoof dhate into giving the channel back. They came to #rock (we had
|
|
#heislord invite only, and I was holding #heislord2-8) and told dhate to
|
|
come to #ircops. I went as well, and they made it +i. They started telling
|
|
dhate shit like "We can nickname collide you and your whole server will be
|
|
off irc!" and "We are ircops buddy, you better give #heislord back right NOW"
|
|
Now the funny thing was none of them were ircops because they didn't have
|
|
a * next to their nicks. If they WERE ircops, the idiots never used it.
|
|
|
|
I could go on about this for days, but the best thing to do is come
|
|
into #rock, unless ofcourse you have a life and better things to do on irc,
|
|
and you can see for yourself. It's pretty lame!
|
|
|
|
Last but not least, I have my personal call to make some people's
|
|
lives very hard. I used to like to hang out in #anime! for a time and talk
|
|
about my favorite shows in there. Well, I met two real assholes in there.
|
|
One of them goes by the nick rin but sometimes uses g-wu to fool me.
|
|
The other changes nicks daily in an attempt to avoid harrassment. Their
|
|
info is as follows:
|
|
|
|
Known Nicks: rin, g-wu, gundam-wu
|
|
Real Name: George Wu
|
|
email: g-wu@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu or g-wu@cso.uiuc.edu
|
|
Goes to U of I Urbana
|
|
Things that piss him off: Tell him his dick is broken. Ask him if
|
|
he has ever been able of fuck a girl all the way. Tell him Joy
|
|
is a fuckin whore. Tell him PLA 0wns him!
|
|
|
|
Known Nicks: rei, gundambab, wu-chan, cranbearri, yu-chan ect.
|
|
Real Name: Joy Toda
|
|
email: jotoda@leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu or todaj@uhunix.hawaii.edi
|
|
HOME PHONE NUMBER: 808-595-6640 or 6690 (can't read my writting)
|
|
Goes to U of Hawaii
|
|
Things that piss her off: Call her by her real name, Joy! Tell her
|
|
that she must be really bad in bed if George couldn't get off.
|
|
Call her a fuckin whore. Tell her PLA 0wns her. Just say r0y.
|
|
|
|
Oh well, that ought to do it for me. Sorry this article wasn't more
|
|
informative, but hey, it's PLA! r0y 0wns y0u!
|
|
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
| Classified Ads - Personals |
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
SWF, 15: Hi, my name is Chana Shvonne Williford. I enjoy swimming, computer
|
|
chatting and annoying other users on local bbses that I don't even know, giving
|
|
them my personal ftp site which is set up by all of my faithful friends who
|
|
have made a fan club just for me because someday I'm gonna be rich and famous.
|
|
At least that's what I'd like you to think. Actually, I wrote all the files
|
|
myself and convinced one of my cybersex partners on AOL to make a directory for
|
|
me so people would think I'm really really popular. If you'd like to visit this
|
|
FTP site, it is ftp.users.aol.com /goatgrease/chana and you can look at
|
|
pictures of me and read all about my amazing life here in Waco, Texas. You can
|
|
also e-mail me at walls@big12.metrobbs.com.
|
|
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
| Phone Losers of America Headline News |
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
Not a whole lot for the news department this month, just an old T.V. transcript
|
|
that's been sitting in my computer for awhile now. Enjoy...
|
|
|
|
Inmate Danny Faries conducts credit card fraud over the phone
|
|
Transcript of the show, 60 Minutes, Sunday September 29, 1991
|
|
|
|
Mike Wallace (Host): 1-800-CON-MAN is a tale about credit card fraud, a billion
|
|
dollar business. And while that may not surprise you, I think what we found in
|
|
Miami certainly will. It surprised us. For four long years, before he was
|
|
convicted of murder, a crafty conman named Danny Faries ran a nationwide Jail-
|
|
house Shopping Network, for he ran it all, without ever leaving his cell in
|
|
Miami's Dade County Jail, where, believe it or not, inmates have telephones
|
|
right in their jail cells and can make local calls and 1-800 calls free of
|
|
charge.
|
|
|
|
Danny Faries: I would challenge you, Mr. Wallace, if they put you in a room the
|
|
size of your bathroom at home for years at a time with a telephone, that I would
|
|
challenge you to--that you would come up with some pretty inventive stuff to do,
|
|
because you do everything through the phone.
|
|
|
|
Wallace: And that's exactly what Danny Faries did. Using a telephone from a
|
|
large cell on the tenth floor of Miami's Dade County Jail and later from this
|
|
six-by-eight foot cell, federal investigators acknowledge he managed to steal as
|
|
much as $2 million worth of merchandise. And how did the business work?
|
|
Accomplices on the outside provided Faries with hundreds of credit card numbers
|
|
taken from charge slips in hotel dumpsters. And then he used those credit card
|
|
numbers to order merchandise from mail-order catalog by telephone, arranging for
|
|
the items to be delivered overnight, again to accomplices on the outside, who
|
|
would sell the goods and split the proceeds with Faries. Faries even persuaded
|
|
his fellow inmates to let him use their extension telephone as his own private.
|
|
You take the extension phone into your cell...
|
|
|
|
Faries: Actually, it was a vacant cell that I quite literally had turned into an
|
|
office. We were having a ball.
|
|
|
|
Wallace: And you did business.
|
|
|
|
Faries: Oh, yes, sir, a bumper business.
|
|
|
|
Wallace: And it went on for four years, with Faries ordering everything from
|
|
collectible gold and silver coins to Rolex watches, to video camcorders. And
|
|
with the help of those accomplices on the outside, he hit states from one end of
|
|
the country to the other.
|
|
|
|
Faries: Oh, it's so easy to find confederates. I split right half with every-
|
|
body. I mean I never took more than half. I got robbed a lot but again, you kind
|
|
of take it on the chin, you know what I mean? It was, like you said, heck, it
|
|
was all free.
|
|
|
|
Wallace: So he ordered cases of the best champagne and gourmet gift baskets and
|
|
thousands of roses, and he had them sent to the families of other inmates and
|
|
even to his prison guards.
|
|
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Faries: They're working stiffs, you know? They're not making much money, and
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they're seeing this stuff going on, and they're hearing about Dom Perignon and
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trips to the Caribbean. And there I am in my cell. They know what's up. There's
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no--you know, I tried to send--at Christmas and on holidays, I tried to send
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out, you know, baskets and...
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Wallace: And it costs them nothing.
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Faries: Oh, no, no. Perish the thought.
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Wallace: Of course, jail officials deny that guards accepted gifts. But one
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investigator told us off-camera that he believes some guards did receive items
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from Danny. And we even found evidence that Danny dabbled in charity. I have
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here a Save the Children Federation Inc., Westport, Connecticut, addressed to
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Daniel Faries, 1151 Northwest 11th Street, Suite 104. That's your jail cell.
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Faries: I'll be darn, yeah.
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Wallace: Save the Children.
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Faries: Well, yeah. Again, when you have nothing but 24 hours a day, and, you
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know, late night on Sunday night after everybody has gone to bed for sure, they
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always put these little poor pitiful with flies crawling out of their nose
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Biafran babies and stuff on--I mean heartbreaking stuff. 1-800 nunmber, Master-
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Card and Visa. And it's just a phone call. My position was when the people got
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their credit card bill, they'd look at it and say, "Well, I didn't order Save
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the Children have for $22," and they look at the poor children--they've all
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flashed on those poor, starving children--I can't believe that most of them
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aren't still paying that $22, Mr. Wallace. I would, if somebody did this to me
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and said, "Look, give, doggone it!"
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Wallace: But what about the cops? Well, they were not amused by the Jailhouse
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Shopping Network.
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Lieutenant Ross Hughes: I think Danny Fairies is a convicted killer and a
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conman, nothing more.
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Wallace: Lieutenant Ross Hughes and fellow Officer Raul Ubieta of the Metro-Dade
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Police spent months building a case against Faries, and they knew he had
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confessed to murdering a friend while under the influence of cocaine.
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Hughes: He's already in jail for murder, possibly facing the electric chair. So
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the fellow has no fear of any reprisal for the fraud he was doing.
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Wallace: So he engaged in what is called the Jailhouse Shopping Network, a
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very successful enterprise.
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Hughes: And he was very comfortable in that role.
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Wallace: And he would remain comfortably in business because Hughes and Ubieta's
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case against him was eventually dropped by the Dade state's attorney. Why?
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Insufficient creditble evidence, the state's attorney said. The two Metro-Dade
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investigators continued to warn jail officials about Faries' continued phone
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access, but jail officials said it would violate Danny's rights to take his
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phone away.
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Hughes: He's allowed access to a telephone.
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Wallace: In order to steal? You know perfectly well that he was stealing. I
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mean, this must have been a matter of some frustration to you guys who've been
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after him now, according to this, for a year or two. And you're getting no place
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with it.
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Officer Raul Ubieta: Any time an investigation doesn't come to a proper
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conclusion for the investigator, it's frustrating. So...
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Wallace: Listen, you told the correction personnel, "Go in there and take the
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phone out of his cell." What'd they tell you?
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Ubieta: If I recall the memo right, that he couldn't do that.
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Wallace: Jail officials finally did search Faries' cell, seizing hundreds of
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credit card numbers. But that didn't put him out of business, because he still
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had a telephone and one hidden credit card number.
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Faries: And I had written this on the bottom of my bunk. And it was a woman's
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card, though. It was Regina Donovan--was the name. And it was a good number.
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And I said, "Well, here we go. We've got to do something."
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Wallace: So Faries used the credit card number to pay for a newspaper ad and a
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telephone answering serivce.
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Faires: And I ran an ad in USA today saying "Cosmetic package: $89.95 value for
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only $19.95. All major credit cards accepted. Please call Regina Donovan
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Cosmetics, a 1-800 number."
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Wallace: But Danny never intended to sell any cosmetics. All he was after was a
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fresh batch of credit card numbers.
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Faries: Well, the girls there, they an--they take the orders, and they write
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down--they--"Thank you for calling Regina Donovan, may I help you?", "Yes, we
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saw your ad.", "Oh, yes, may we have--what credit card will we be using today?"
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They wrote their number, the expiration. And then at the end of the day, I would
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call and they'd have all these numbers. It was incredible And so I just got a
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whole new stack of numbers and I was off.
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Pete Collins: You could call him up any time of the day or night, and he was
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working around the clock, particularly when I was interviewing him.
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Wallace: Pete Collins is a free-lance writer in Miami who is writing a book
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about Danny Fairies and his Jailhouse Shopping Network.
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Collins: The operation was working in as many as 40 states. There were as many
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as 150 drop sites, dozens of employees, $750,000 documented in stolen goods,
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perhaps up to $2 million to $4 million, and that was just during an 11-month
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window of his captivity.
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Wallace: And you got this mostly from the Secret Service.
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Collins: I got all of that from the Secret Service.
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Wallace: That's right, the Secret Service. In addition to protecting the
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president and going after counterfeiters, they also work credit card fraud
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cases. And they began to investigate the Jailhouse Shopping Network, too. They
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searched Danny's cell twice, and they confiscated over 1000 stolen credit card
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numbers and catalogs. But Danny still had access to a telephone, and he still
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did business, just as he had for nearly four years.
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Faries: Even on my cell door at ICDC in Dade County, I had a Mastercard and a
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Visa logo on the outside of my door. It was pretty wide open. So...
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Wallace: Everybody knew what you were doing, and you kept on doing it.
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Faires: It was incredible. I know it's--I just say...
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Wallace: I don't get it. Why would they give you access to a phone if they knew
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what you were doing?
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Faries: I give great phone.
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Wallace: I'm quite serious. Why would they keep letting you have access to a
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telephone?
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Faries: I don't know. I would--of course, every time that they would say, "If
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you don't stop this, we're going to take your phone away," I said, "Okay, then
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I won't do it anymore."
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Wallace: But Danny knew that he had a legal right to phone privileges while
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awaiting trial. So he was able to go on stealing hundreds of thousands of
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dollars in merchandise. We wanted to find out more for ourselves about telephone
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access for the inmates at the Dade County Jail, so we went there to take a look.
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There's a guy on the phone right there. And nothing had changed. We visited
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Danny's old cell. This was the office that Danny Faries worked out of?
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Unidentified Man #1: Yes, sir.
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Wallace: Not much bigger than somebody's bathroom. We were amazed to find a list
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of telephone numbers on Danny's old cell wall. So we called one.
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(Speaking on telephone) L.L. Bean order department, Can I order some merchandise
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this way? And I can order how much? Can I order $100 or $1,000 or $10,000 worth
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of stuff? No limit. My name is Mike Wallace, and I wor for 60 Minutes, and I'm
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sitting in a cell... L.L. Bean hadn't heard about the Jailhouse Shopping Network
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but they did say that credit card fraud is a problem for them. And L.L. Bean had
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received an order from onen Tommie Chappell, the inmate who inherited Danny's
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old cell. Explain something to me. I go into your cell and suddenly I see on the
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wall...
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Tommie Chappell: All of Danny's numbers.
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Walllace: Are those Danny's numbers? It turns out that Tommie Chappell was only
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one of many inmates who had learned how to use the Jailhouse Shopping Network,
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courtesy of Danny Faries.
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Faries: They don't even have to be terribly intelligent and only marginally
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capable. It's not--it doesn't--it's like a trainn, Mr. Wallace. I feel like I
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constructed a train, and just darn near anybody can drive a train. Heck, it's on
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a track. All you got to do is put the fuel in, credit card numbers, and this
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train will go.
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Wallace: But Tommie wasn't about to acknowledge to us that he had graduated from
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the Danny Faries college of credit card manipulation. You've never done any of
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this?
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Chappell: No.
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Wallace: Raise your hand. Since Tommie Chappell wasn't going to confess, we
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asked Sergeant Ted Tate of the Metro-Dade credit cardr squad what was going on,
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what is going on at the Dade County Jail. Sergeant Tate, level with me. It's
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still going on...
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Sergeant Ted Tate: Yes, sir, it is.
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Wallace: ...in Dade County...
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Tate: Yes, sir, it is.
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Wallace: ...in ICDC, over telephones, with credit cards.
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Tate: It's going on in the Dade County Jail System, yes, sir.
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Wallace: How come?
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Tate: I don't know the answer to that.
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Wallace: Well, surely, Lonnie Lawrence, the director of Dade County Corrections,
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the man who requested a Secret Service search of Danny Faries' cell, he could
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explain why the Jailhouse Shoppingn Network was still alive and well.
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Lonnie Lawrence: There are legal guidelines that say that we shall provide phone
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access to inmates.
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Wallace: Inside the cell?
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Lawrence: Yes. They don't care where you provide it, as long as you provide it.
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Wallace: But what about inmates who abuse the phone system? For instance, let's
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say he's threatening the judge who put him away on the phone.
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Lawrence: We still have the ability to do that.
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Wallace: You can take that phone away?
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Lawrence: We'll take the phone away.
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Wallace: So you can actually take phone privileges away. What you have not been
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able to do is to take phone privileges away from guys who are in jail and
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scamming over the phone.
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Lawrence: Well, I think that we've been able to restrict their phone privileges.
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Wallace: I went into Danny Faries' old cell this morning three hours ago. Right
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there is the telephone. Right there on the wall, there's a list of 1-800 numbers
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and credit card numbers. I called L.L. Bean. They were taking my order. I was
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playing Danny Faries, slick as it could be.
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Lawrence: Well, you know we don't have a perfect system.
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Wallace: And nobody knows that better than Danny Faries. He was finally
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sentenced to five years for credit card fraud on top of an earlier life term for
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murder. And he was moved to the Charlotte Correctional Institution, a much
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tougher Florida state prison, where with prison guards looking on, we met a
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chastened Danny Faries. He told us that prison officials here have made sure he
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can no longer practice his trade.
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Faries: I would like to be very clear, I don't want them--perish the thought
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that they might think I'm still wielding my telephonic sword, you know what I
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mean? I can't do that.
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Wallace: Why not?
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Faries: Here in the state prisons, they're much more sophisticated.
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Wallace: So what you're saying is you're going straight, perforce now, now at
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Charlotte correctional center.
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Faries: Yeah--or having to go on a new direction, because the--oh, well, I mean,
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come on. I'm not just going to roll over, Mr. Wallace.
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Wallace: Isn't there a lady in Fort Lauderdale you've been talking to?
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Faries: I don't know. Who are you...
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Wallace: Did you offer to set her up in business and rent an apartment from her
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as a drop site?
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Faries: Oh, I'm sure that I probably did.
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Wallace: Recently?
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Faries: Now, see, you would get a fellow in trouble with all these folks
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standing around us here.
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Wallace: I mean, come on. I mean, you've just professed innocence. You don't do
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it anymore. That's what you just tod me, Danny.
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Faries: I know. I know. Well, you know, here's what I've got...
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Wallace: But somehow you're in ntouch with a lady in Fort Lauderdale, renting an
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apartment which is going to be a drop site where you are ordering or she is
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ordering or somebody is ordering camcorders and things like this...
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Faries: As he nervously takes a drink of his root beer. (Drinks root beer.)
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Wallace: I mean, you're a crook and a murderer.
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Faries: That's what they say. Doggone, I wish they didn't say that, though.
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Wallace: Danny Faries has been moved to yet another Florida state prison and
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he's been told that he will be isolated from his fellow inmates if he ever
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abuses the telephone privilege again. And Dade County Jail officials say they
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now have new procedures for inmate phones. After we went down there to report
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this story, those inside jail cell telephones were removed.
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