I work for Iomega tech support. One day, when I was answering the AOL message board questions, I ran across a letter complaining that this person’s zip drive had ejected a zip disk clear across the room and hit her dog in the eye. The dog supposedly lost vision in that eye and wanted Iomega to pay for the vet bill. I wrote back asking for a picture of the injury. I got back a picture of a dog wearing a pirate patch.
There was a really angry user who called me, saying my company was @#$!# and its products were !@#$@, and I was @#$*! too. He said he bought our graphics card, and it didn’t work, and what the @&$!# was I going to do about it before he sued my lying butt.
After this I learned from him that he didn’t actually have our product.
Email from a customer:
I’ve bought a stolen CDD3610 which didn’t come with any software or cables. Could you please send that to me? I presume I do have the full 12 months warranty?
Police say a suburban Chicago man faked a carjacking to avoid getting arrested for drunk driving.
DuPage County officials say 21-year-old Jason Atkins had too much to drink at a party in April and crashed his car into a tree.
To avoid detection, officials say he had two friends help him concoct a story about being carjacked at gunpoint.
The story started to unravel as Naperville police investigated the carjacking, and the two friends eventually told the truth about the accident.
Atkins was still in jail yesterday on $30,000 bond.
He is facing eight criminal charges, including an assault charge involving an officer he is accused of attacking during his arrest.