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Offline bijou

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Canadian woman in tech support hostage drama
« on: September 04, 2008, 07:41:18 AM »
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A Canadian actress and playwright has been charged with holding a technical support member hostage after losing her internet connection.

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Carol Sinclair lost her connection with ISP Aliant and, by her own account, spent days trying to get the line fixed.

"I was polite the first 20 times I talked to them. But each one gave me the same routine: 'Is the modem connected? Are the lights blipping?'," she told The Globe and Mail.

"And then each one would say: 'It should be working. The problem must be with your computer.' I was a little stressed. I had six days to do a month's work."

Finally Sinclair said she resorted to impersonating a man's voice and got a repairman sent out the next day, a "huge, strapping young man", 21 year-old David Scott.

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She had tech support in the same country she was in? Lucky woman.  :-)



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Re: Canadian woman in tech support hostage drama
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2008, 08:42:11 AM »
She had tech support in the same country she was in? Lucky woman.  :-)

She did? She lives in India I take it?
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