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Pranks => Prank Phone Calls => Topic started by: rbcp on July 02, 2009, 05:52:13 PM
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From mcall.com (http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5phone070209-cn,0,3952707.story)
Police said man made obscene calls through a phone service for the deaf for fun of it
A Lackawanna County man was arrested by Fountain Hill police for sending 72 obscene messages through an instant-message service for the hearing impaired for the fun of it.
Police said Andrew S. Brunell, 24, of Hawley told them he sent the messages because "because it was hilarious and entertaining to him."
He was charged yesterday with unlawful use of a computer, stalking, and harassment.
Police are investigating whether Brunell made similiar calls to other victims in the Lehigh Valley, said Fountain Hill police Investigator Sam Del Rosario.
Police said they received harassment reports from nine victims in the 600 block of South Lynn Street. Each victim told police they received lewd phone messages through an internet relay service intended for the deaf and hearing impaired.
Brunell would type messages on his computer, and the service would then call the desired phone numbers and read the messages aloud, according to police.
Each victim reported receiving the messages, which contained "lewd, lascivious, and obscene language," between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. over a four-day period starting May 22.
Investigators said they were able to track the source of the calls to Brunell, who was taken to Lehigh County prison for arraignment.
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If he was using the typing end of the relay, then he wasn't making obscene calls to the deaf. Headline fail.
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From mcall.com (http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5phone070209-cn,0,3952707.story)
He was charged yesterday with unlawful use of a computer, stalking, and harassment.
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1. How the hell was he stalking them
2. "unlawful use of a computer" is the biggest bullshit
3. If harassment is a crime, then lock me up.
4. How is it worse to call someone a shit-fag through indirect ways than just saying it to them in person?
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If harassment is a crime, then lock me up.
well, you know.... oh neverminnd.
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How does a deaf person make the sign for lascivious?
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2. "unlawful use of a computer" is the biggest bullshit
Most of those services have notations somewhere on the page stating that if you are not dead or hearing impaired then the service is not for your use. That's probably where they're getting that from.
I say boo to the relay ops for not having a sense of humor and turning him in.