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Jeff Childers's avatar

ERRATA:

- Rachel Morin was murdered by an illegal immigrant on the Ma & Pa Trail near Bel Air, Maryland, not Tulsa. Fixed (thanks, alert readers!)

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Jeff/C&Cers: In case anyone here is under the impression that “they” are listening to us, let me remove any doubt.

Was walking with a friend yesterday.  We had our iPhones in our pockets, but she was wearing an Apple watch.

I was recalling something I had heard where someone used the “N” word. 

But I didn’t say, “N”.  I said the abhorrent word aloud.

Immediately after quoting verbatim what I had heard this person say, I said, “I HATE using that word” to which my friend said, “Yes, so do I”.

Not even two minutes later, my friend received a phone call that appeared on her phone as “Technical Support”.  The number showed up on the detail in the call log as 800-922-0204 which is officially linked to Verizon but it is being reported that scammers have been using it.

She answered and the person on the other end said that my friend had called Verizon Technical Support – to which my friend said, “I did not call you”. 

This person from Verizon said to my friend that she had heard our conversation and to be “mindful of the language you use”.   Unfortunately, my friend was so taken aback that she didn’t think to say, “did you hear the words immediately spoken after hearing the “N” word?”.

Needless to say, it was a very short conversation that rattled my friend, but I think she is still under the impression that her phone accidentally called Technical Support.  It’s too disturbing to think otherwise. She knows I am a dissident and knows all about the embalmer clots that I write about, so I’m sure this incident is still rolling around in her mind. 

Her call log showed that three other numbers were called within the same timeframe that she did not place. They showed up on her phone as “#BAL”, “#MIN” and “Directory Assistance”.  My guess was this was to make it look like her phone was randomly calling numbers. 

Yeah, that pesky First Amendment keeps getting in the way. Neither of us have been hauled off to the gulag (yet).

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