Entire Verizon Corporation Served With Arrest Warrant After Failing To Pay Lawsuit Judgment

from the sounds-difficult dept

Fri, Feb 9th 2007 1:43pm — Joseph Weisenthal

This must be the week that everyone who gets frustrated at the cable and phone companies tries to get their revenge. First, Comcast was fined $12,281.84 by a county in Maryland for its poor customer service. Then there was the story of a 19-year old running out of his house buck naked, threatening an AT&T repairman with a shotgun, before landing in a mental health facility. And now comes word that a judge issued an arrest warrant (via Broadband Reports) for the entire Verizon corporation after it failed to pay on a lawsuit it lost in small claims court. The company had been sued by a customer who claimed that Verizon double billed him, ruined his credit and failed to fix the mistake. Fortunately, Verizon has now paid the customer, putting off the difficult question of how you go about arresting an entire company.

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Bumbling old fool, 9 Feb 2007 @ 2:01pm

Imagine this...
Pounding on door
This is the Police
We have a warrant for your arrest! Can you hear me now?
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TeesMyBody.com T-Shirts, 9 Feb 2007 @ 2:16pm

Not a fan
Similar situation happened to me. Glad I left for cingular.
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Steak, 9 Feb 2007 @ 2:19pm

Arresting an entire company

the difficult question of how you go about arresting an entire company.
"They have weapons of mass destruction in their headquarters, and we know where they are"
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wolf0579, 9 Feb 2007 @ 2:32pm

One wonders...
If Verizon fixed his credit record as well...
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Panaqqa, 9 Feb 2007 @ 2:45pm

Hmmm...
Wouldn't that be the equivalent of an arrest warrant for the Directors of that company? IANAL, but I am sure this has come up before - corporations fail to pay judgements all the time.
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David T, 9 Feb 2007 @ 4:00pm

> corporations fail to pay judgements all the time

And normally the county sherriff shows up with a padlock and "SEIZED" tape to put on their buildings, facilities, equipment, and inventory until they decide to pay up.
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Michael Tatu, 9 Feb 2007 @ 4:30pm

Wait!! Not The People In The Commercial!!
I have had nothing but good experiences with Verizon. They have been very helpful and professional. Are these "Hater's" just people that did'nt pay the bill? Or are these people just taking advantage of the opportunity to slam the "Deep Pocket" Corp.? I have had almost every cell service and travel everywhere in the U.S.. In my OPINION Verizon has the best coverage (atleast in every highway corridor) and that's where it counts the most.
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Dave, 9 Feb 2007 @ 5:03pm

Glad to hear it
I had a battle with Verizon myself a few years back, in which someone fraudulently used my calling card number at a string of payphones in the area or something like that and ran up my bill to an unreal $900+. Verizon was provided proof positive that at least in some of the incidences I was nowhere near the area, and summarily told me "we know it wasn't you, but we're still holding you responsible."

Screw them. To Michael Tatu's comment - nobody's claiming they have bad signal or service here. They lost a suit and didn't pay.
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Feb 2007 @ 6:14pm

Re: Wait!! Not The People In The Commercial!!
Shut the fuck up fanboy.
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ryan, 9 Feb 2007 @ 7:25pm

verizon pansies
my dad works at verizon, and he came home with a paper today, with 6 things that the company wanted to improve on.
they were

increase revenue
gain shares
improve profitability
maintain good customer service

and best of all: improve culture

and then at the bottom it said "confidential, not to be shared outside of verizon"
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ScytheNoire, 10 Feb 2007 @ 12:59am

6 things?
i only count five there

and those are thing all companies try to do

i just don't see anything about improving the technology, improving coverage, improving service, or lowering fee's

guess that means they are like every other American corporation, fuck over the people for as long as possible while making as much money as possible and try to provide the least amount of service for the highest cost while changing the service the least until absolutely neccessary
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Anonymous Coward, 10 Feb 2007 @ 11:55am

You can't expect a company whose employees don't know the difference between dollars and cents to handle billing correctly.
Check out:
http://www.verizonmath.com/
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security, 11 Feb 2007 @ 1:31am

Social Media at its most Viral
The original Forum Post...

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?start=180&catid=52&threadid=68020 0

This is how it all started - with one forum post - it was picked up by one news site - then others

Now it has 4,200 diggs after two days
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The Cell Geek, 11 Feb 2007 @ 8:10am

How to arrest an entire company...
Start at floor fifteen and work your way down.
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|333173|3|_||3, 11 Feb 2007 @ 3:52pm

Re: How to arrest an entire company...
Better still, sieze the keys to all the doors, the food going to the canteen, and all the company cars. THen turn off the water, gas, and electricity outside. Then just arrest everyone as they come out. Easy.

If it was the entire company, then you could sieze allthier money and the money of all thier employees, from the CEO to the floor sweeper, and order everyone to turn up at theire nearest police station.
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Mort, 12 Feb 2007 @ 8:45am

In 12 years in the IT field I have yet to come across a company that cares less about its customers than Verizon. It shouldn’t take a court order to get them to fix their own mistake.

A Verizon tech (splicer) once told me that he couldn’t get Verizon to fix his mothers phone line. He called support several times after the phone was down for 2 weeks. Verizon support kept telling him the problem was inside the house. He told them he worked for Verizon gave them his ID number, told them he tested the lines and the problem was outside the house. Verizon support told him the problem was in the house and that they were not responsible to fix inside lines. The tech told me his mother didn’t live in the area he covered and that after another week of battling with support he had to drive from his zone to his mother’s zone and fix the issue himself.
Ohh and as you might have guessed, the problem was out on the poll.
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Frank H, 12 Feb 2007 @ 10:17am

Re: Coporations fail
True but failing to pay is usually a judgement issue, not a criminal one. In this case it escalated to an issue of contempt of court which is an arrestable offense.
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CPS2_Suicide, 12 Feb 2007 @ 4:35pm

Re: How to arrest an entire company...
Funniest article on your website.
Verizon Rocks!
I've been using them 2 years w/ no problems
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The Swiss Cheese Monster, 13 Feb 2007 @ 2:13am

If I would have known.....
Wouldn't it be great to be on the phone with VerizonWireless tech support when this story comes across the wire?

It would be a lot of fun to tell the tech "It has just come to my attention that there is a warrant out for your arrest. So fix the fucking problem now or I'll call the authorities and let them know where you are."

Would be even better if the employee in question really did have a warrant out for his/her arrest.
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Anonymous Coward, 6 Apr 2007 @ 9:03am

Re: Wait!! Not The People In The Commercial!!
fuck you
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CAS, 6 Jun 2007 @ 10:09am

Verizon Serivces- FIOS
DO you know that I have scheduled 5 times wiht verizon to set up FIOS _ CABLE and all 5 times that have screwed up?
YEs 5 times and all 5 times, they have failed to show up. Either the technician did not show up or they dates in their system is wrong, or the services to provide is not the one I SCHEDULED. They are very unprofessional, VEY UNORGANIZED!!!
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Canada, 5 Nov 2007 @ 3:48pm

Verizon RipOff on FIOS Billing
In April 07 I purchase the FIOS service for the internet, TV, Home Phone and Celluar Phone. The Fios service was for A ONE year contract at cost of $99.99. Now only five months later Verizon is raising the cost to $ 152.00 a month. When I inquired about why they (VERIZON) was not living up to the contract we signed. The Verizon rep stated I had only six months contract. To bad Verizon by we signed a years contract. My strong advise is not to do BUSSINESS with VERIZON FIOS. Go to another company. Stay tuned I am looking for others in the same shape for a Class Action Law Suite.
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Lizbeth, 20 May 2008 @ 11:39am

DSL Billing & tech support
Ever try talking english to someone who speaks Hindi. verizon moved dsl service support to India. god help us all.
they do not understand what you are saying and you cant understand them. But the company wants the bill paid.
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Nancy Crenshaw, 8 Jun 2008 @ 7:07pm

Verizon
Hello,

I don't seem to have the billing issues mentioned in this article....yet. However, I signed up for DSL with Verizon in March of 2008. I also signed up for Verizon Games on Demand and have had unbelievable trouble with the so called customer service ever since. I have emailed them over 20 times with regards to the issues revolving around this particular "Games on Demand" service all of which were answered with a generic choices of solutions none of which even came close to dealing with this. I have also chatted with them 4 times on line, each time I was disconnected and was unable to reconnect including receiving computer errors for trying. I have also tried to deal with this via telephone...the response was that this issue was not something that they could deal with and I was often put on hold for sometimes up to 30 minutes.
Now I just want to cancel my Games on Demand subscription and cannot!!!
What kind of customer service is this!!!
I don't know what I can do, I want the DSL but I'm so discouraged by the response of Verizons' customer service to my needs.
Help!?
Nancy Crenshaw
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westley sinkler, 27 Feb 2009 @ 7:01am

verizon triple freedom package
quote seems to be virtually non existant even though you sign up for it and are promised it you never actually receive it .billings are not for qouted price of 79.99 a month and satellite service comes in a totally seperate billing bringing the grand total of service to around 180.00 to200.00 per month instead of the ever mythical 79.99 per month.signed very seriously pissed of consumer.
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