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User Charged With Taking ISP Tech Hostage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-kidnap-or-not-to-kidnap dept.

User AttheCoalFac pointed us to an interesting tech support story from Canada. Halifax actress and playwright Carol Sinclair was arrested and is now facing criminal charges after a repairman says she threatened to hold him hostage until he fixed her Internet connection. Mrs. Sinclair denies the allegations and says that she merely stated, 'I don't want to hold you hostage, but would you mind hanging around until the other technician arrives so that the two of you can sort it out.' She was arraigned in Halifax Provincial Court Friday and is now free on conditions including that she have no contact with the repairman or any employee from her ISP. Having a lot of experience on both sides of this issue, I'm not sure who I'm cheering for.

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  1. Seems to me by jaxtherat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this is just a case of a disgruntled customer's remarks being taken WAY out of context.

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    1. Re:Seems to me by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Insightful

      #4 can get you shot. You can't claim they started it if you're dead with a pair of scissors in your cold dead fingers.

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  2. Typo by kenh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That should read "Threatened to take him hostage (is not the same as) Taking him hostage - the title is misleading. I had a less than and greater than that were scrubbed out of the final posting - sorry.

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  3. Nothing to see here by Ignis+Flatus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just a retarded employee with a completely artless grasp of language. Public education sucks. Get over it. Move along, please.

  4. It's a figure of speech by Skapare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a figure of speech ... "I hate to hold you hostage, but ...". That is said in a lot of contexts. If things went down as this story claims, then the ISP tech didn't understand and just blew it all out of proportion.

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  5. Physical restraint? by FooGoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did she physically prevent him from leaving? Did he even try to leave? If not he should be buried up to his neck and be pelted with muffin fans from 20 paces.

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  6. Re:What was wrong with her pc? by Annoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No doubt there are companies that do computer work. But she would have had to PAY them.
    People don't expect that they might have to actually pay someone to fix their computers after they frak them up.

  7. Re:Misleading title by D.+Taylor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. The GP said "You know what they say", not "You know what William Congreve said"..

    In any case, I can see why it is misquoted...