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Offline Chris_

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Phone book phobia/fetish
« 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.

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Of course there was no listing available for her...she's got all the phone books.   :thatsright:
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Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2008, 12:18:03 PM »
It would be logical except she was paying to store them.  That's nuts. 
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Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2008, 12:54:27 PM »
Perhaps she was trying to corner the market in phone books.  :-)
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Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2008, 05:31:14 PM »
She must be really, really short :-)
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Re: Phone book phobia/fetish
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2008, 05:46:30 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on August 11, 2008, 05:31:14 PM
She must be really, really short :-)
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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.
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