So imagine you get a new cellphone and number and suddenly you are bombarded with death threats. At least 70 calls. People yelling things like, "You deserve to die!" And you're all, "What the hell did I do?!" But it scares the bejesus out of you, so you pack up and move. And take your mother with you. And then your cell carrier is all, "Ohhhh, we gave you George Zimmerman's old phone number." Whoopsie daisy!
Apparently this happened to a Florida man named Junior Alexander Guy. He got the number of the guy accused of killing Trayvon Martin and now he's lawyered up and is suing T-Mobile. But T-Mobile is not taking his calls anymore.
The company did reportedly give him a new phone number, and an account credit, and waived his early termination fee (duh!), but they're refusing to tack on money for undisclosed damages (i.e. whatever "emotional distress" I'm guessing the lawyer is claiming).
You'd think the company would at least cough up for the guy's move, but there are a lot of despised people in the world, and those people usually have phone numbers. Imagine if phone companies had to shell out cash every time someone received the digits of a douche.
Here are 15 other old phone numbers we'd really want to avoid:
- Casey Anthony
- Bernie Madoff
- Anthony Weiner
- John Edwards
- Luka Rocco Magnotta
- Kim Kardashian
- Kanye West right after his "Ima let you finish" rant
- Amber Portwood
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Gov. Scott Walker
- Rush Limbaugh
- Spencer Pratt
- Teresa Giudice
- Angelina Jolie for at least five years after Brad dumped Jen
- Anyone named "Nevaeh"
What's an old phone number you'd really want to avoid?
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let not forget beiber
Growing up our phone number was only one digit different from the movie theater in town. (Ours ended in a 9 their's ended in a 4...which when scribbled down could easily get confused) We used to get tons of calls asking about movie times. This has slowed down a lot since movie listings are now easily accesable online. The best was when some kid left a message on our answering machine asking when "That movie with Hallie Berry" was playing. You would think hearing an ansering machince that says, "you've reached the smith family" would be a tip off that he had the wrong number, but no he left a message with no return number and expected us to call him back. Around holidays when the calls got really bad my dad would just give people fake movie times.