jimnyc
12-03-2019, 04:00 PM
Wow. I've called customer service of places before, and sometimes angry. Most folks don't call to simply say thanks. And sometimes it may take a couple of calls to get results.
But 24000? Yikes! Suppose that's 8 days as stated. This man called them 3,000 times per day! Think about that. Suppose you get your 8 hours of sleep giving you 16 hours to call them. Nearly 190 calls every hour. I'm surprised it took them 8 days!! And unless I'm reading this wrong, he may have done so even more from pay phones? So when he had to go grocery shopping or hit the bank, he would also hit the pay phones while out! :laugh:
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Japanese man, 71, arrested for 'making 24,000 complaint calls'
Tokyo (AFP) - A Japanese pensioner has been arrested after ringing a phone company 24,000 times to complain they had violated his contract, police and local media reported.
Tokyo police said they took 71-year-old Akitoshi Okamoto into custody last week after he made hundreds of toll-free calls over eight days to the customer service section of major telephone operator KDDI.
But this could be the tip of the iceberg, with media outlets reporting that he made thousands more calls from public pay phones to voice his displeasure with the company and insult customer service staff.
"He demanded that KDDI staff come to him to apologise for violating his contract. He also repeatedly hung up his calls immediately after placing them," a police spokesman said.
Rest - https://news.yahoo.com/japanese-man-71-arrested-making-24-000-complaint-045021696.html
But 24000? Yikes! Suppose that's 8 days as stated. This man called them 3,000 times per day! Think about that. Suppose you get your 8 hours of sleep giving you 16 hours to call them. Nearly 190 calls every hour. I'm surprised it took them 8 days!! And unless I'm reading this wrong, he may have done so even more from pay phones? So when he had to go grocery shopping or hit the bank, he would also hit the pay phones while out! :laugh:
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Japanese man, 71, arrested for 'making 24,000 complaint calls'
Tokyo (AFP) - A Japanese pensioner has been arrested after ringing a phone company 24,000 times to complain they had violated his contract, police and local media reported.
Tokyo police said they took 71-year-old Akitoshi Okamoto into custody last week after he made hundreds of toll-free calls over eight days to the customer service section of major telephone operator KDDI.
But this could be the tip of the iceberg, with media outlets reporting that he made thousands more calls from public pay phones to voice his displeasure with the company and insult customer service staff.
"He demanded that KDDI staff come to him to apologise for violating his contract. He also repeatedly hung up his calls immediately after placing them," a police spokesman said.
Rest - https://news.yahoo.com/japanese-man-71-arrested-making-24-000-complaint-045021696.html