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The thing about solar panels and calling a single number 1,000 times really hit home for me. Once or twice a day for years my (ex)wife would get calls trying t

The thing about solar panels and calling a single number 1,000 times really hit home for me. Once or twice a day for years my (ex)wife would get calls trying to sell her dead father solar panels. The calls just never stopped coming. Why call every day? I wasn't able to find out anything more about the company than they were located in Irwindale. I always pondered this type of spam in particular. If I pretended to be interested in their product, someone would eventually show up at my house to sell me panels. Would THAT person know who was calling me? One time, I became so frustrated, I think the call had interrupted some alone time my wife and I were having. I told the guy I'd come down to Irwindale with my assault rifle (which I don't own) and "stalk from office to office pumping round after round into colleague and coworker." He didn't recognize the Fight Club quote but proceeded to tell me threating him was a federal crime and that he would be filing a police report. I begged him to put his name on a police report so I'd know who he was. He then called me by name, and told me my address and that the police would be on their way soon. Except, it wasn't my name or address, it was my dead father-in-laws. After this, the calls stopped for a few days. But eventually they resumed.

cmurf 7y ago
Another irony is, in a pure free market, your solution of violence, both the threat of it let alone acting on it, is a natural conclusion. The only way we have a civil society is trust that there can be effective intervention before there's violence. And as most states have no meaningful regulations for payday loans, my position if I'm ever called to be a juror in an assault or murder case by someone with such a loan against the owner of a payday lending company, is juror nullification. It's not murder. It's the free market taking care of things.
- oceanghost 7y ago
  I couldn't agree more. Calling every day isn't marketing, it's harassment. One of the consequences of only allowing law enforcement to commit violence is, anything they aren't interested in enforcing becomes de facto legal. The irony of an illegal phone scammer threatening to call the police was not lost on me.
- oceanghost 7y ago
  > The only way we have a civil society is trust that there can be effective intervention before there's violence. I can't get over this statement. It is clearly axiomatic and sums up so many of the frustrations in my life.

cmurf 7y ago

Another irony is, in a pure free market, your solution of violence, both the threat of it let alone acting on it, is a natural conclusion. The only way we have a civil society is trust that there can be effective intervention before there's violence. And as most states have no meaningful regulations for payday loans, my position if I'm ever called to be a juror in an assault or murder case by someone with such a loan against the owner of a payday lending company, is juror nullification. It's not murder. It's the free market taking care of things.

oceanghost 7y ago
I couldn't agree more. Calling every day isn't marketing, it's harassment. One of the consequences of only allowing law enforcement to commit violence is, anything they aren't interested in enforcing becomes de facto legal. The irony of an illegal phone scammer threatening to call the police was not lost on me.
oceanghost 7y ago
> The only way we have a civil society is trust that there can be effective intervention before there's violence. I can't get over this statement. It is clearly axiomatic and sums up so many of the frustrations in my life.