Re: Need Help With a Telephone Mystery |
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John McHarry (jmcharry@comcast.net) Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:45:49 GMT
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> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There was an instance in Chicago > several years ago where the Probation Department of the Cook County > Court system printed up legal notices which were mailed out to all > the probationers -- millions of notices -- with the wrong number on > the form. Getting them (court officials) to even _listen_ to the > problem, let alone correct their stupid notices took a real act of > God, believe me. They just were not going to change anything > about their system. Now if you know Chicago, almost everyone gets > swept up in their system at least once; many folks more than once. > The trouble was sort of serious; all probationers were expected to > call that number (or at least the correct version of it) to do > something or other. It finally took a lawyer (whether he himself was > on probation or simply the counsel for someone else who was on > probation is not known to me; it could have been either way) to go > raise so much hell with them and get their damn forms reprinted with > the correct number. I think the attorney had to offer to file suit > against the court itself to prompt the correction of the form. PAT]
Isn't this a variation on the sweet old lady who got caught in something |
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