January 31, 2005 -(Milk, LA) — Beginning today, people in the town of Mink, Louisiana, will know the pleasure of a phone call or the frustration of a busy signal.
Mink was one of the last rural areas of the U.S. without regular phone service. BellSouth has spent $700,000, or about $47,000 per phone, to extend 30 miles of cable through thick forests to Mink.
Taxpayers will pick up some of the tab, with a levy on their phone bills statewide. There's going to be a fish-fry (YEE HAW) in Mink to celebrate today.
Who knows, maybe the dinner will be interrupted by a call from a telemarketer.
2 comments:
amazing. should go sell phone books there.
Hey is cold calling illegal in the US?
Over here I think it is, at least we use it anyway. When they ring we immediately ask how they got our number and if they can't explain themselves then we tell them that cold calling is illegal and we're reporting the company. They always hang up.
Plus it is also fun to mess with their heads albeit for a few seconds.
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