Be Nice to Those Telemarketers
I feel bad for this guy, who is being held as a terrorist after he threatened a telemarketer. While I agree with the commenters on my texting-while-driving post, who explain why actions that have a high risk of leading to crimes should be outlawed, I don’t understand why the irate consumer in this case isn’t just liable for a misdemeanor. Is it because he threatened to harm more than 10 people? (Who came up with that magic number?) Or because they wanted to evacuate the building?
Not everyone who gets angry on the phone is a terrorist.
As Chief Wiggum said: “I’d like to help you ma’am, but, heh heh, I’m afraid there’s no law against mailing threatening letters.” So I hope we don’t also have to charge this man with putting squirrels in his pants for the purposes of gambling.
Comment by David Stokes — July 21, 2009 @ 12:33 p.m.
I had to do lot of googling to understand that comment, Dave.
Comment by Sarah Brodsky — July 21, 2009 @ 12:42 p.m.