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?
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I hate TW here as well. They’re not quite that bad, but bad enough. That’s why I don’t use them for internet. If it wasn’t for the kids, I’d cancel my cable all together.
Verizon tried charging me for a modem I never had-$99. I had to go through several phone idiots and 2 managers before I had it settled. I mean, $99? It’s cheaper at WalMart which is exactly what I told them.
I’ve not used Dish Network, I’ve had DirecTV and have it now again and I have never had one issue with it-once in a while I’ll get the message to call customer service with a code, but it’s just to reset the signal and it’s immediate. I don’t like how I’m paying for it now, which is through Verizon since it’s in the bundle package, but when I had issues when I first moved with Verizon’s billing all I had to do was call DirecTV, explain it to them and I received a credit plus all the premium movie channels for a additional 2 months free.Very helpful.
It is so fucking cold I want to slap Al Gore. Seriously. I KNOW bla bla bla, I’ve read all the ranting, but still. WTF?
Get this, we are sent bills with zero balances every month for our old phone service. How many thousands of people get these? And we wonder why costs keep going up.
Sydwynd,
Satellite is the way to go. No lie. People say all that crap about rain and what have you, but they don’t have satellite.
Beth,
Have I told you I love you? I miss my Directv sooo much! TheMan got rid of it because they raised their prices. And Dish Network? SUCKS DONKEY BALLS! I swear to the gods that I tried to contact a manager there and the bitch put me on hold for an hour! I was so pissed. TheMan, though, refuses to cancel and go back. Bah!
But it’s better than TW (we have them around here too).
Miz UV,
Y’all still have ice? Holy shitballs! Hell really is freezing over. We still get zero balance notices for our old DTV. What the hell? And Sprint sends us an ebill (which we use) and a paperbill (which comes after we’ve already paid our ebill). HUH?
Guess they want to make sure we get the bill. LOL! Freakin’ idiots.