True, but first the file will pass through every agent in the agency. Sometimes you luck out and the agent is reasonable but a more likely scenario sees either the file being passed off to another agent or getting sold. If you are especially unlucky (i.e. your name is Mumsie) you will get every other collection agency or government program linking your address or phone number to the file of the debtor.

g'morning canada peeps.

We were being harassed by collections agencies for unpaid student loans by the woman who previously owned our phone number. When I listed it on the Do Not Call registry the calls stopped. If I get a call that is in violation of the registry, I report them to the Do Not Call registry. Then they stop.

Here is the link: https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

It is supposed to be for telemarketers but it seemed to work for the collection agencies as well.

My husband, before I met him, was getting bothered by this one man who kept calling asking for this woman. No matter how often Joe said he didn't know this woman, she wasn't there, and this guy had a wrong number, the caller didn't believe him and kept leaving messages for her, like 'Get home, now", etc. with Joe. Finally, after several months of this, Joe told the man that she had indeed been there earlier, that they had had wild passionate sex then she had told Joe she had had enough of her husband, that this was a goodbye visit because she was packing her suitcase and flying off to France with this romantic new man that she had met at a bar! The caller immediately began asking questions about this man - and Joe answered with whatever came into his head. The guy then thanked Joe profusely and hung up.

The next day Joe got an angry call back from this man saying his wife said she had no idea who Joe was, that she hadn't gone to France, that she was just shopping with her mother, and what the H** was Joe trying to do, break up their marriage? Joe responded that he had been telling him all along he didn't know his wife and that the guy was calling a wrong number but since he never believed him Joe figured he wanted to hear a different answer - so gave him one. Joe said that since he didn't know the man's wife he had no idea if it were true or not, but remarked that the guy seemed pleased to get that information instead of the truth so was happy to oblige!" The guy swore at Joe and hung up - but he never called again.

- good one Joe.

Oh poor kitty krikit! I think I did read that at some point. Well i'm glad the kitty is doing better

So the Chinese people haven't called back, I guess my Chinese is better than I thought it was (not) - but Mr. Pakistan did call once this morning at 7:20, didn't leave a message. Have to wonder what he is thinking, or not thinking, if you call a number 8-9 times and either get this woman yelling at you or voice mail of someone you don't know, why would you keep calling back?

If I could speak his language I would ask him.

Good morning friends! Thanks for the coffee this morning charles. I'm enjoying my time and the weather here in Saskatoon. Haven't had any time to do anything but eat good food...had a wonderful order of poutine last night! Kidding aside, the reason for my coming up here was I had to testify yesterday and I was on the stand for 7 straight hours...it was horribly tiring and tedious. I'm done, I hope. Leave here Saturday at 6 am so will be ready and brewing up some good stuff on Monday morning for everyone! Hope everyone is wonderful and approvals and "touching" is plentiful! Enjoy your day and week!

Thanks for the coffee Charles, really do need it this morning.

I see we are getting our coffee to go this morning. Thanks Charles. I'll have a toasted everything bagel with herb & garlic cream cheese too, please.

@Kathryn..... that was funny about Joe and his caller. You almost feel sorry for the guy. Almost. I would have finally told him she's dead. Actually, after my first husband passed away I kept getting phonecalls from telemarketers asking for him. After being polite for the first few months, I finally had a meltdown and screamed at them that he was dead and started bawling. They never called back after that.

@Carla..... wow. Seven hours on the stand. That's heavy duty. I was cross-examined once (as a witness) for what seemed like four hours..... but was really only about an hour. It was especially charming when the prosection started making false accusations against me as if I was the criminal. The judge finally lost his patience with her and told her to smarten up. I think she'd been watching too many TV crime dramas.

A bagel sounds good right about now!

I feel like I should go out today or something, since I haven't left le apartment for like 4 days.

I'm just on hold with RBC Canada at the moment, I was looking at my statement online last week and there is an $8 service charge, I tried emailing them and after 3 attempts with no answers I decided to call.

Long story short, I just hung up from speaking to a very very helpful guy, he is giving us the $8 back and I changed accounts so that we don't pay a dollar for every transaction!

Oh and Centura mortgage woman never emailed me back, so I called customer service yesterday and they contacted the local branch manager and she finally called me back yesterday.

Ok here is the story. I talked to her on the phone, she asked me to send her an email so she would have my email address, did that.

So a week or so later I have a question and I email her to confirm I have the correct address, she emails back, yes correct address. I email some questions, she replies with more questions.

I email her back the answers, like a week ago, never hear from her, I email her again, no response, so I call customer service, she hears from the bank manger, she calls me.

She says she never received my email ?? She answers my questions on the phone, all good. Oh and could I send her another email to make sure she is getting them.

Today she calls again, had I called? No - but someone had left her a message to say she hadn't returned my calls - lol

Anyway, while on the phone we solved the email mystery. My display name for email is 'trailmix'. Because she didn't recognize the name she says she would have deleted the email - it might have a virus in it

Despite the fact that I put our names in the subject line for reference. Whateva, anyway ramblin ramblin ramblinnnnnn

Wow trailmix, seems like the Gods of Banking are out to get yah sister. First lovely Marco and now this cr@p. ARGHHHH, must be quite exasperating. Have a coffee and relax.

Here is the short version for those of you who can't be bothered reading all that:

Speak to mortgage person ---> email mortgage person ---> email mortgage person to confirm address ---> mtg person emails me ---> email questions to her ---> she emails questions to me ---> I reply ---> I email again ---> I call customer service ---> she calls me, answers my questions, asks me to email her as well ---> I email her ---> she calls me today asks me to email her ---> I email her, with her on the phone ---> she says she would have deleted my emails as the display name is trailmix

Or, if you prefer graphs:

Girl, you need to come out for a glass of wine with me.

That's actually funny because I laughed at this daily Dilbert today. It reminded me of the budget meetings I would have with the corporate CFO. He would come up with imaginary numbers and tell me that's all I needed. Luckily, he always backed down after a good argument. Good times.

That Dilbert is funny, I love the 'I work in a fabric covered box' comment.

So what did you witness you little criminal krikit?

Yeah, I laughed at the fabric covered box comment too.





It was a domestic..... a father and daughter. Both of them were wrong and both of them were right. A no-win situation. Very sad.

the only court room i've been in is traffic court for my dad's speeding tickets =)

but I make up with all the L&O I watch =)

Woohooo for L&O!!! And now that we have such a hottie DA instead of Jac MacKoy (or however you spell that); it's even better!!!!!

I like charts and graphs. Well, except scatterplots. I hate those.

Anyway... my wife and I were playing F.E.A.R. in multiplayer the other night and since she's rarely played games online (the exceptions being Neverwinter Nights and Guild Wars, both of which are RPGs), I think I may have been unnecessarily cruel towards her. You see, I've been online since about 1991 and been involved in First-Person Shooters since Wolfenstein 3D or as far as multiplayer goes, DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D. Yes, in the early 1990s, game developers were obsessed with adding "3D" to the end of their titles.

So we're playing against each other -- something my wife already dislikes as she vastly prefers cooperative play -- and I kicked her butt. I wouldn't have been so hard on her, but the last time we played against each other (which was on my PS2 in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation), she figured out I was letting her win. She naturally became irate and told me to "play for real." So I did and once again, kicked her butt. She was then annoyed at me.

While playing F.E.A.R. (and First-Person Shooters in general) I switch from being my general "nice guy fun-loving self" (I can imagine Len choking on whatever she's drinking right after she reads that...) into... well... let's just say it's not pretty. First thing I did was lay down proximity mines on staircases and then stuck triggered explosives to the walls nearby. I then hopped up onto a ledge outside the building and hidden by a tree's foliage.

As my wife comes looking for me, she triggers my trap. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. After my wife's extra-crispy body stopped writhing and she respawned, she made the dangerous mistake of passing by sights in which I got off a perfect headshot. By the end of the next few rounds, she was becoming less and less amused. I wasn't quite sure why. I think she takes dying too personally. In games like those, you need to expect to die a few thousand times. It doesn't mean anything.

Oh well.

Alas, I am young and innocent and don't know the first thing about court rooms.
I thought every episode of L&O had Jack McCoy saying, "as long as your client allocutes to it," or "how dare you Arthur!"

Linus Roache or Alana De la Garza? Linus Roache is the son of our Kenneth. William Roache is his father, who everyone knows is Ken Barlow from Coronation Street. Sometimes Linus has a bit of trouble hiding his accent, but he's OK.

DUDE.... he is more thank OK. He is sooooooooooooooo OK that Bren has actually threatened not to let me watch L&O anymore Jealous, a bit????

Alana is gorgeous, although they did fukc up by cutting her hair -- right now it looks like sh1t. I liked her better in CSI Miami.

anyone know why they kicked Detective Green out?
Or did he quit??
It's just not the same without him and Lenny......

I know.... I was like WTF? Replacing a hottie with a chubby??? Plain wrong

OK, I'll admit that it was incredibly juvenile of me but considering that I'm built like Anthony Anderson...

and HE'S SO ANNOYING@!!!$$%^

Were you talking about me or Anthony Anderson? Seriously Anthony Anderson is fine as comic relief but as a full-time character, not so much.

he's painful to watch

I want to smack him!!

Hello yummie....


Goodbye yuckie...

we should start a protest

his character is even annoying!!

But he always plays annoying characters, got to save up enough cash to fix his diastema.

Done.

WE WANT




WE WANT

AND SEND THIS GUY BACK TO MAKING SPYKIDS MOVIES.

Will I get the first post in page 300????????????????

Sh1t. Nice try.

I liked Anthony Anderson in Transformers.

What if by some miracle they managed to bring back George Dzundza (even though they killed him off) and Chris Noth, would you still feel the same? How about Dennis Farina and Paul Sorvino with side order of Benjamin Bratt?

I guess Richard Brooks and Michael Moriarty won't do.

Dude. They did bring back the Honorable Det. Mike Logan like 2 years ago...



Dennis and Paul are better off OUT. Now Benjie boy.....





WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Wow page 300, wasn't it page 200 I was awarding a box of kraft dinner for? Someone has been typing a lot (oh and I posted the first post on page 200 and ate the kraft dinner btw).

I want page 300's first dipssssss

Oh really??

oops

we should make a petition and send it to NBC!

TAKE IT BACK
TAKE IT BACK


BUAAAAAHHHHH

Not enough money, that's why everyone is leaving. Jesse L. Martin left because they couldn't afford his salary. NBC, proud as a fourth-place peacock.

Page 300 wow, I guess that means tonight we dine in Hell.

That's why he left? Really? Cheap b@stards. Now we're stuck with Jabba. Darn.

Ratings are dropping so advertising rates drop and down go salaries. Look at what happened to The Practice/Boston Legal.

Do you guys want to start your own L&O thread? I have not a clue what you're talking about because I haven't seen the show.

How dare you Arthur!

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I haven't seen it either, I was going to ask you what that pic is krikit, but now I see it's 'scratch head'

Ken Barlow's kid is now the male ADA. Linus Roache is William Roache's son and so the circle of life is complete.

Ken Barlow's son is on L&O?

AND he is a hottie.
AND there are rules Krikit dear... so please post your compains in The Vent

And who the heck is Arthur?


I know. I thought of that. I guess it belongs right underneath Mumsie's complaint about "people" <---- me..... who hate Archie Anderson or whatever the heck his name is.

Arthur Branch, DA in Law and Order, aka.....