Dave Barry Strikes Back Against Telemarketers

ikkonoishi writes "The Miami humor columnist Dave Barry in his column here encouraged his readers to exercise their constitutional rights to call a telemarketing firm which had declared the National Do Not Call List unconstitutional. Well it seems to have worked." Needless to say, the targets of the prank were none so keen on being called themselves.

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Re:Do not call lists will lower sales

[Anonymous Coward]

Spoken like someone who's never truly hit hard times. Move out of your parent's basement yet, little buddy?

No, turdburglar, reality is you can't always "find another job." The economy in some towns is shit. And you can't "just move someplace else" when you can't even pay the rent or feed yourself and the car's about to be repo'd. And McDonald's doesn't pay the bills, either. Telemarketing is a shitty job, but it pays fairly well compared to minimum wage. Sometimes life doesn't hand you neat little choices.

And panhandlers come up to me on the street all the time asking for money. I either give them some money if I have it (and feel like giving it away) or say sorry and move on with my life. I don't piss and moan about how inconvenienced I am by the fact that someone else is trying to feed themselves.

So, grow the fuck up and get some perspective.

Wow

[autopr0n]

Some people have this thing called a "life", The last time a telemarketer called me I simply said "Please put me on your do-not call list" and hung up. I havn't been bothered since since I don't use a land-line. I have gotten a few campaign and polling questions lately (I'm in iowa). I even got my ass out of bed to listen to the begining of a recorded msg from John Kerry... Needless to say I won't be voting for him.