At least four times a week I will hear my mum angrily speaking to a telemarketing company on the phone, slowly descending into rage as the person on the other end of the line tries to flog her some shit we don't need.
Some days, when my mother isn't home, I will answer the phone - straight away if someone tries chatting shit I apply the tried and tested technique of lowering the phone to my arse and ripping a fart right down their ear - it usually does the trick.
However, Aviel Ginzburg could not just simply fart down a phone at Comcast to get out of the shite they were chatting.
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The TV cable company told him that they had cancelled his and his wife's service, because his wife was dead.
If those were the correct circumstances, and your subscription was in your deceased wife's name, you'd most likely accept the situation. The only issue was, the guy's wife was alive and well.
Despite telling Comcast that she was alive, and even after she confirmed she was alive, the company asked that they provide evidence of her current existence at a Comcast centre.
After the onslaught of tweets, Comcast tweeted Aviel asking him to DM them.
Aviel's wife who was resting in peace casually minding her own business, eventually chipped in with a measured dose of 'whatthefuckareyouplayingatcomcast?'.
Of all the things you'd expect from a cable company, the list presumably goes:
- TV channels
- Decent signal
- Not to create the fictional deaths of your family members
Comcast, you have made a boo-boo.
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Words by Mark McGowan
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