Australian dude goes crazy on cell phone towers with his Armored Personnel Carrier!
By Will Park on Monday, July 16th, 2007 at 6:41 PM PST In Random
And you thought you hated the way your wireless carrier treats you. Anyone that’s ever dealt with a bad wireless carriers’ customer service department can attest to the nonchalant run-around and inaction that’s so darned frustrating – at times, enraging. Could one of those hellish customer service experiences have led this unstable madman to exact revenge on cell towers with his very own armored personnel carrier? It’s still not clear, but it’s fun to imagine that some reluctant wireless carrier is regretting their draconian policies.
CNN reports that the 45-year old went on a rampage through the streets of Sydney, Australia – gunning for mobile phone towers. The crazed man rammed his armored vehicle straight through perimeter fences and right into the structure of six cell towers – causing significant damage to the towers. Police somehow arrested this guy on his way to a seventh tower – presumably on his way to destroy yet another tower.
We’re sure there are some people out there that would love the chance to punish their horribly uncaring wireless carrier with their own flavor of “street justice” – now, where to get an APC?
On that note, we’d love to hear from anyone that’s had a bad customer service experience with a wireless carrier. What did they do to piss you off? What did you do in return? Don’t you just wish you had an APC?
[Via: Information Week]
Thanks, Andy M!
wow that’s nuts! any readers in Sydney have bad cell reception because of this?
Yep had a few bad experiences with wireless carriers but I would opt for a M1 tank and not an APC.
So here’s the story. I went to Iraq in 2004 and took my T-Mobile phone with me, knowing good and well that I would be able to use it with a SIM card from a Kuwaiti carrier. Prior to accessing a SIM card I turned my phone one just to see what would happen. Well I could not make phone calls or anything of the like. So in ernest I tried to locate a SIM and did. The merchant (or hagler, whichever) placed the card in my phone, booted up and….NOTHING. I had to adjust to using some POS second-hand Nokia with a Kuwaiti SIM card. It worked and that was all I cared about.
Later I received a phone bill for $600+ from T-Mobile. Needless to say I never made a phone call from my T-Mobile upon leaving the US. I turned it on in Europe and then again in Kuwait. I repeat NO PHONE CALLS OR SMS. The carrier would not budge in their position and firmly believed that their billing practices were correct. Immediately I dropped them as my wireless carrier and they never received the remaining monies for the bill. Upon coming back to the US I went with a different carrier and all things aligned in the universe…sort of.
T-Mobile this APC is for you…along with the center digit.
I’m glad it worked out for you, buddy. What service are you in?
My sentiments exactly for T-mobile, but only for their reception, I think they’re customer service is tits!
When I recently moved into my house I had no home phone, no tv, and NO INTERNET!!! I gave in and used my cell phone as a modem for a week and when I got my cellphone bill it came out to 1,120$ as compared to 60 bucks a month. is there anyway to fight this charge if so send me an email @ alexbarretta@gmail.com