Today the groundhog saw his shadow. According to USA Today that means we’re going to have more winter. Really? You don’t say. I mean, it is only February and around these parts it doesn’t really start getting cold until January so… DUH!
I was reading the news for something interesting to write about and came across this. Time Warner, the devil gem of a cable company, billed folks for damaged equipment after it was destroyed in a toranado.
Time Warner Cable billed a number of Wheatland residents for equipment damaged in the Jan. 7 twister. Beam’s bill covered five cable boxes and five remote controls.
She immediately called the cable company, but a man who identified himself as a manager said there was nothing the company could do.
“They said I would have to take the bill and turn it in to my insurance company,” Beam told the Kenosha News for a story on the paper’s Web site Thursday.
According to the story, this lady’s equipment was almost 10 years old. And TW wanted $2000? Because a tornado hit and this chick was supposed to save the goddamned cable equipment? Really? But wait! There’s more.
You see above where the manager of said Time Warner outlet told her to turn it into her insurance agency (because TW can’t possibly suck up the cost of that crap)? Well, a spokesperson for the devil company said:
Some customers were charged for unreturned equipment, but only because they canceled or transferred their service without mentioning the tornado, she said.
“We understand this is an unusual situation,” Flynn said. “All they will need to do is call, and we will take the equipment off their account.”
Ok, why would anyone that had their entire life destroyed by a flippin’ tornado call to transfer their service and not tell their story? They wanted credit, dummy! They don’t want to pay for the cable when they can’t fucking watch it! And at least one person did call, right? Did you miss that part?
See, this is why I have a love/HATE relationship with Dish Network (Direct tv is much better, by the way). Without them I’d have to plug my tv into Time Warner and that would give me hives.1
Of course ol’ girl got a credit to her account. Because the media caught wind of it. Otherwise it’d be “Tell your insurance company to pay us or we’ll sue your ass, bitch! And you’re seventh generation grand children will have to pay. Mwahahaha!!!” Now TW gets to play all innocent and be like “What? We didn’t know. Why didn’t they just tell us.”
In other news, some guys stopped to help after they saw a car flip over on the highway. As one of the guys started to call 9-1-1, one of the passengers of the wrecked car stole his car.
Torgerson and Charpentier saw the car crash early Tuesday and sprang into action. Torgerson, who has had National Guard training, began tending to an injured passenger who was dangling out of two blown-out windows.
He even put his own gloves on the victim and, with wind chills at minus-34 degrees, he used his bare hand to call 911 with his cell phone.
“Chase! Turn around! Your car!” Charpentier screamed. Torgerson, 20, of Clearbrook, saw one of the uninjured passengers commandeer his car.
“What can I do?” he recalled. “There goes my car. I’m still on the line with 911.”
Of course, the thieving little bastard rolled the other car too.
Doesn’t that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
Millie has TW and her reception sucks worse than my satellite reception. Mwahahaha!!! [↩]
Happy Groundhog Day!
Today the groundhog saw his shadow. According to USA Today that means we’re going to have more winter. Really? You don’t say. I mean, it is only February and around these parts it doesn’t really start getting cold until January so… DUH!
I was reading the news for something interesting to write about and came across this. Time Warner, the
devilgem of a cable company, billed folks for damaged equipment after it was destroyed in a toranado.According to the story, this lady’s equipment was almost 10 years old. And TW wanted $2000? Because a tornado hit and this chick was supposed to save the goddamned cable equipment? Really? But wait! There’s more.
You see above where the manager of said Time Warner outlet told her to turn it into her insurance agency (because TW can’t possibly suck up the cost of that crap)? Well, a spokesperson for the
devilcompany said:Ok, why would anyone that had their entire life destroyed by a flippin’ tornado call to transfer their service and not tell their story? They wanted credit, dummy! They don’t want to pay for the cable when they can’t fucking watch it! And at least one person did call, right? Did you miss that part?
See, this is why I have a love/HATE relationship with Dish Network (Direct tv is much better, by the way). Without them I’d have to plug my tv into Time Warner and that would give me hives.1
Of course ol’ girl got a credit to her account. Because the media caught wind of it. Otherwise it’d be “Tell your insurance company to pay us or we’ll sue your ass, bitch! And you’re seventh generation grand children will have to pay. Mwahahaha!!!” Now TW gets to play all innocent and be like “What? We didn’t know. Why didn’t they just tell us.”
In other news, some guys stopped to help after they saw a car flip over on the highway. As one of the guys started to call 9-1-1, one of the passengers of the wrecked car stole his car.
Of course, the thieving little bastard rolled the other car too.
Doesn’t that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
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