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Geek Culture / Minnesota man blames Vonage for his charred home

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Aoneweb
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 20:13
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Thats too sad, I never thought about 911 (999) calls.
For thoes who don't know, Vontage is a broadband hone sevice.
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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 21:12
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im minnesotan.....but dont blame me, oh, and by the way, the Daily Show with john stuart did a skit on a womens prison in my town, and what they neglect to mention throughout the entire clip is that it is right across the street from an elementary school.

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Jeku
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 21:19
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@TDP - What does that have to do with the topic?

Vonage should be sued to high heaven for this one. Basically they had a 911 service on the VOIP, which is the law, but when he dialed it because his house was on fire they put him on HOLD. Can you imagine being placed on hold on a 911 call?


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TDP Enterprises
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 21:29
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Quote: "Minnesota man blames Vonage for his charred home"

I live in minnesota, and we can have the reputation for these kind of strange things

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SirFire
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 22:21
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"This is 911, please put your emergency on hold for the next available operator. Your call will be answered in the order in which it was recieved, or as soon as our outsourcing routers find an Indian to help you."

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re faze
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 22:29
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I thought that this was a known issue with vonage?
something comes to mind about a baby dying or something.

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Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 03:48 Edited at: 27th Mar 2006 03:50
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The guy probably just didn't register his information with Vonage. they've been hounding me forever about it, even though I keep telling them I live in Okinawa.

I'm sure his story sounds better if he leaves that part out, though. I'm sure it would be more profitable if it was purely Vonage's fault.


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Aoneweb
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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 04:31
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Quote: ""This is 911, please put your emergency on hold for the next available operator. Your call will be answered in the order in which it was recieved, or as soon as our outsourcing routers find an Indian to help you.""

LOL


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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 05:01
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That was truly beautiful SirFire .

There's a link in the article about the dead baby.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 17:05
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I'd blame Vonage too. But unless the guy was trapped inside the house, couldn't he just go to a neighbor's house and call?


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SirFire
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Posted: 28th Mar 2006 03:08 Edited at: 28th Mar 2006 03:08
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We're talking about Minnesota, the nearest neighbor is 3 light years away.

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Posted: 28th Mar 2006 03:19
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GO MY MINNESOTA BROTHERS, can i get a woot woot??!?!?!?!!?





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no?



ok, well, we minnesotans arnt near as bad as our neighboors iowa, north dakota, and south dakota.

South dakota has about 3 cops for the entire state.

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