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| Dad hammers Wyo. teen's phone after mega-bill | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 8 2009, 11:24 PM (194 Views) | |
| XNavyGunner | Apr 8 2009, 11:24 PM Post #1 |
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In one month, a Cheyenne teenager sent 10,000 text messages and received about the same — all while her family's plan did not include texting. That means the family's provider — Verizon — charged them for each incoming and outgoing text message. The girl's parents, Gregg and Jaylene Christoffersen, thought texting had been disabled, so one can imagine their surprise when they got the monthly phone bill and it asked for $4,756.25. "It just hit us like a rock, like you're stepping into a bus," Gregg Christoffersen said. The bill was legit. Dena Christoffersen, 13, had apparently been sending most of these messages at school. That's more than 300 texts within an eight-hour period every day for the whole month. Needless to say, it drew attention away from what she should have been doing: paying attention in class. "She went from A's and B's one semester to F's in two months," Dena's dad said. Hours after the enormous bill arrived, Gregg Christoffersen took a hammer to his daughter's phone. He and Jaylene also grounded Dena until the end of school. "I felt really bad, and I have learned my lesson," Dena said, with her head down. Since she lost her phone, Dena's grades have gone up, and the texting is down to zero. As for the phone bill, the family says Verizon has been willing to knock it down to a reasonable level. The Christoffersens are asking school administrators at Johnson Junior High School to crack down on cellphone use during school. Source Seems like the kid got off easy. |
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| The Mule | Apr 8 2009, 11:35 PM Post #2 |
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This is why you buy your kid a throwaway phone with pre-paid phone cards.....some people aren't smart enough to have kids... |
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| Delovely | Apr 9 2009, 02:24 AM Post #3 |
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Kids these days eh? I've had students who did the same in my class and I took their cellphones away, I turned them off and in to my drawer...... until the class finishes. Now the students know what to do every time they enter my class. ![]() I don't blame the parents. I would go berserk, myself! Kids gotta learn and be disciplined. Now matter how hard/easy it'd be. In the long run, it's for their own good. |
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| newbloodmoon | Apr 11 2009, 04:23 PM Post #4 |
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Hmm, the kid gets the phone taken away and her grades improve? I am sure there is a rational explanation in all of this.... ha ha. I think that at a certain age, it is important to trust your children and give them some responsibility as well as a means to get a hold of you if needs be. Yet as a parent, if you're going to give a kid a cell phone you have to tell them what the plan entails. |
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| L8erToots | Apr 14 2009, 07:43 PM Post #5 |
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It's not just kids in school...I met a Public Defender and she said that once, in open court, the judge stopped talking and all you could hear was a room full of lawyers clicking away on their cell phones, not paying attention to anything the judge was saying! |
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| The Mule | Apr 14 2009, 09:54 PM Post #6 |
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You sure that wasn't clicking on their calculators as their fees increased by the minute? |
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| Parth | Apr 15 2009, 11:08 AM Post #7 |
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It still astounds me how she could possibly send and receive 300 messages in school and 10,000 sent/received overall for one month's usage. Who seriously has that much to talk about? My thumbs would fall off if I sent and received that many in an 8 hour period. The most I've ever sent/received in one month is 2000. The most I've sent in school is 20. If people need to talk to me that desperately, they can call me. I barely use any minutes anyway. I'm more a of a data user. (E-mail, IM, I guess SMS/MMS.. but not too much, and web browsing) |
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