Our reader Jennifer isn’t the only former Time Warner employee whose AOL account has risen from the dead, prompting collection notices and confusion. Wall Street Journal investing columnist Jason Zweig, a former Time Warner employee, found himself in precisely the same situation, and wrote about his epic customer service adventure.
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Zombie AOL Account Crawls Out Of The Grave Nine Years Later
By 7.1.09
Jennifer, like many people, one subscribed to AOL. She paid for the service originally, then received a free account while employed with Time Warner. Then she joined the 21st century and didn’t use AOL at all, but her free account remained in the system. Until AOL started billing her. Nine years later.
Boston Police Department: We Will Let You Know When The Zombies Come
By 5.20.09
The first surprising part of this story is that the Boston Police Department has a Twitter feed. They use it to post breaking police-type information that’s useful to the public, such as roads closed due to car accidents, crime data, big arrests, etc. Sometimes they also reply to reader questions. And that is how TruTV learned that the Boston police will not hide the zombie invasion from the public.
By 4.25.08
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TigerDirect bought CompUSA, and just announced a grand re-opening of 15 stores and the regular opening of one store.
Verizon Unleashes Zombie Debt Collector Scourge On Innocent Consumer
By 10.11.07
Reader Kevin has a problem with Verizon and the zombie debt collectors they’ve unleashed on the account Verizon said was paid off and closed…
Corpse On A Plane: Dead Woman Moved To First Class
By 3.19.07
Paul Trinder, who awoke to see the body at the end of his row, last week described the journey as “deeply disturbing”, and complained that the airline dismissed his concerns by telling him to “get over it”.
UPDATE: Acquiesce to the Zombie Debt Collectors
By 5.10.06
Relevant to our earlier post about Chris getting call after call from his debt collectors and wanting to stop their zombie madness, and T-Mobile and Catherine Zeta Jones’ inability to do anything about it, reader Erik found the Federal “Fair Debt Collection Practices Act” from Title 15 of the United States Code.
Glocker Z-Day Round-Up
By 4.3.06
On March 28th, 2006, a strange Venusian satellite streaked an eerie fluorescent parabola across the sky, irradiating the world’s cemetaries, funeral parlors and abattoirs with an extraterrestrial radiation. Four days later, the dead walked, slavering for human flesh and tasty brains. And we were here covering it.
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 4.1.06
• Today’s Woot!, the Mag KleerDrain Instant Drain Opener. At 20 bucks, this is an affordable tool to unclog your drains of the fetid slurry that congeals after feeding the disembodied limbs of your loved ones down the garbage disposal.
Wal-Mart Big Boxes Serve As Zombie-Invulnerable Forts
By 4.1.06
The same communities that once passed zoning regulations and fought tooth and nail against the threat of a Big Box being deposited in their neighborhood a now turning to Wal-Mart as their last refuge from the gruesome bloodbaths being unleashed in their own backyards.
