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My husband doesn’t get a lot of personal phone calls. Now that he’s discovered text messaging, it’s not unusual for him to pop up with occasional missives about the impending weather, or to ask if I have time to swing by Candia Road Convenience to replenish his cigar supply while he’s stuck at work.
So when his phone rang the other day, it was our first clue that something was wrong.
“Five-eight-five area code? Where’s that?” I said as we both looked at the phone.
“Oh, it’s that crazy lady again, talking about the police,” my husband said.
He had just uttered a gold mine of a sentence to the ears of a news reporter.
He then showed me that he had a few of these calls saved in his visual voicemail, where I could see the broken English as recited by a robot caller:
“You will be taken under custody by the local cops as there are four serious allegations pressed on your name at this moment. We would request you to get back to us so that we can discuss about this case before taking any legal action against you. The number to reach us is 585-633-3075. I repeat: 585-633-3075. Thank you.”
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