What’s worse than your teen sending 10,000 text messages, mostly during school? Her sending 10,000 text messages when you have no text message plan.
Not only did all those sent and received messages (another 10,000 were received) cost the dad $US4,756.25, it caused the girl’s grades to drop down from A’s and B’s to F’s. Verizon has offered to cut that down to non-absurd levels.
Then, of course, came the hammer. Because the guy’s obviously rational and likes wasting even more money when he eventually has to buy his daughter another phone in the future. Good job sir! [Denver Post]
MARY COCHRAN
Friday, April 10, 2009 at 8:16 AMMake her use her own money and have her get a Tracfone. A one year contract with 800 minutes is about $100.00. It does phone calls and text (no Intranet). Make her pay for it and the new time.
Conny
Friday, April 10, 2009 at 8:24 AMWho says that he has to eventually buy her anything? He doesn’t HAVE to get her a new phone, ever! People have lived without cell phones for thousands of years, even teenagers. She’ll live. Besides, it won’t be long and she’ll be old enough for a J-O-B. Maybe she can buy her own cell phone then, one with a text plan?
Way to go DAD!!!
Daniel
Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 2:15 AMhe looks like the type of dad that would give his daughter anything. I mean what a loser! he doesn’t have to buy her anything! like the other guy said in the commentds…
Dylan
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 4:22 PMI can’t begin to imagine what it was like for the parents to get a $5K phone bill, especially if they thought that they had a texting plan that, while not unlimited, was at least comprehensive. Talk about shock! Without debating the appropriateness of the volume of the rampant texting, I get particularly riled when parents are stuck with huge bills; I hear about this all the time because I work for the consumer advocacy website http://www.fixmycellbill.com, powered by a company called Validas, where we slash the average cell bill by 22 percent. People like the Christoffersons may not have been actively misled by their providers, but they were clearly unaware of the vulnerability of their cell plans to their kids’ texting habits. I could go on and on about how shifty these cell companies can be in their attempts to make you overpay. I’ll mention that at Validas, we stop them and have currently put over $5,000,000 back in the pockets of consumers. You can check out Validas’s fixmycellbill.com in the national news media, most recently on Good Morning America at http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6887412&page=1.
Good luck to everyone trying to cut your wireless expenses in this rough economy.
Dylan