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Title: Phone book phobia/fetish
Post by: Chris_ on August 11, 2008, 12:15:17 PM
WTH???   :mental:

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Woman Indicted for Allegedly Stashing Phone Books

LAS CRUCES, N.M. —  Most people want to get rid of their old phone books, but a Las Cruces woman has been indicted for fraud for allegedly keeping more than 100,000 directories.

Fifty-five-year-old Debra Gottrell is accused of storing the books in three Las Cruces storage units during a four-year period instead of delivering them as she was hired to do.

Court records show she was indicted July 31st by a Dona Ana County grand jury on a charge of fraud.

A telephone listing for Gottrell was unavailable. There is no explanation of why she allegedly took the phone books.

MORE (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,401305,00.html)

Of course there was no listing available for her...she's got all the phone books.   :thatsright:
Title: Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
Post by: Lord Undies on August 11, 2008, 12:18:03 PM
It would be logical except she was paying to store them.  That's nuts. 
Title: Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
Post by: bijou on August 11, 2008, 12:54:27 PM
Perhaps she was trying to corner the market in phone books.  :-)
Title: Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 11, 2008, 04:32:00 PM
Or waiting for "Peak recycled paper" to make a killing, with her brilliant plan foiled when the price did not go up and her financial model entered a death spiral of storage costs.

 :-)
Title: Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
Post by: DixieBelle on August 11, 2008, 05:31:14 PM
She must be really, really short :-)
Title: Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
Post by: Chris_ on August 11, 2008, 05:46:30 PM
She must be really, really short :-)
:rofl:

I have a stack of about 20 phone books.  The different phone companies dump a shrink-wrapped stack of books in the breezeways two or three times a year.  They go untouched for about a week, and I'll drag them inside and put them with the rest of the unused phone books.