Destroyed Payphone Can't Be Removed, Because It Doesn't Exist
from the catch-22 dept
Joseph Heller must be laughing in his grave. From the UK comes a story that could have come straight from Catch 22. A few years back, some vandals ripped out a pay phone, leaving just a shell. Local residents called BT to either replace the phone or get rid of the shell - but BT claims the phone doesn't exist - because it's been ripped out by vandals, it's no longer on their list of phones. So, they won't send someone to repair it, because they don't believe it exists. It doesn't exist... but that's just because it got taken away by vandals. So, for three years, this shell of a pay phone booth just sits there.
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Light bulbs
A: None, because the light bulb never existed.
Q: How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None, because market forces will change the bulb.
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Another Classic BT
"We cannot get a new line down the pipe due to a blockage and we cannot dig up the road to clear the blockage because it is covered with the wrong type of tarmac."
The sad thing is they're still the best of the bunch when it comes to Telcos in the UK.
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In the good old USA this wouldn't be a problem.
Second, some enterprising individual would dismantal the remainder of the phone booth and sell it on eBay
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