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    Default Father smashes daughter's phone after $4700 bill

    Cheyenne dad smashes teen's cell phone

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A Cheyenne father smashed his teenage daughter's cell phone with a hammer after she sent or received about 20,000 text messages in a month.

    The Christoffersen family's phone plan with Verizon didn't include texting, and the phone company charged them for each incoming and outgoing text.

    Gregg and Jaylene Christoffersen thought texting had been disabled. They only learned their 13-year-old daughter Dena was doing so much of it when they received a phone bill for more than $4,750.

    Gregg Christoffersen took a hammer to his daughter's phone hours after the phone bill arrived. He and Jaylene also grounded Dena until the end of school.

    The family says Verizon has been willing to knock the bill down to a reasonable level.
    Ok, I've been texting this girl in america nonstop (I'm in bermuda so it's longdistance texting) and she recently told me we used up 200$ on her bill already, it's only been one day x.x Texting is a *****, dont let it run your bank dry >.<

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    Wow,if I had to pay that bill i would smash the girls head hammer.>

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    holy shit, thats alot of text messages in just one day...

    did she glue the cellphone to her hands or something like that

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    I thought charging for incoming texts was illegal. That's so stupid.

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    thats what unlimited text is for =D

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    serves the dumb ***** right

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    Wow. o___o
    The most my cellphone bill ever came out to was.. $60 I think..
    I spent like, $20 on texting, and my parents got really mad at me.

    Receiving texts are free for me, but outgoing is 15cents per text... which is big money for me. ._.
    I can't afford to pay my own phone bill, my parents pay it. So they'd get really mad seeing even $100 dollars on it! :P

    On my phone carriers site, you can text other people who use that carrier online and it's free. (Not online on your phone, but online your computer)
    Saves me a lot of money. :]
    I don't know if it works that way with other carriers though..

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    Text messages should be used only when you have to :S so ****in expensive ... Why not just talk anyway, it's funnier to hear the voice of the person heh. And if you have alot of stuff to tell the person... wait till you see her/him in real life or on msn...

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    Unlimited text = WIN!
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    Quote Originally Posted by power_gamer_6 View Post
    I thought charging for incoming texts was illegal. That's so stupid.
    Phone companies in Ontario have actually been discussing charging for incoming texts lately, from what I've read. Maybe it's nationwide.

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    I heard one time that text's are so overpriced. If you downloaded one song at the same rate charge as it takes to send or receive one text, it would cost around 200 dollars. Piece of shit overpriced ****s.

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    Lol noob. Only text if you have unlimited. Otherwise you get owned.

    However I don't think that causing more damages un-does the other damages.

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    Hey it's Verizon.

    They should have went with the $5 a month unlimited texting plan.

    I'm on it.

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    i get unlimited texts and 2000 minutes of talking for $40 a month

    wut

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xente View Post
    i get unlimited texts and 2000 minutes of talking for $40 a month

    wut
    agreed with that only mines unlimited txts and 600mins though i rarely go over 400

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    lmao Ha I got unlimted texting on my sidekick. If I was her father I wouldn't smash the the phone with a hammer I would smash her head into the phone. Poor parents do they really expect them to pay for all that. My she is grounded until the end of the school year rofl that sucks so bad wtf is she gonna do until then.

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    Wow you think a 13 year old girl could figure out that her parents didn't get her a texting plan, and without one they're still going to have to pay $$ for your crap load of messages
    Dummy had it coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xente View Post
    i get unlimited texts and 2000 minutes of talking for $40 a month

    wut

    LUCKY!

    My parents don't want me to have unlimited texting, because they think texting is stupid. If I need to talk to someone, I should call them or e-mail them. ._.
    I think I get 100 minutes for $20, and 60 texts for $3. ._.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kamilla View Post

    LUCKY!

    My parents don't want me to have unlimited texting, because they think texting is stupid. If I need to talk to someone, I should call them or e-mail them. ._.
    I think I get 100 minutes for $20, and 60 texts for $3. ._.
    theres some irony going on here >_>

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    I get unlimited texting, pic, video, web, minutes for 50 a month. I love local companies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xente View Post
    theres some irony going on here >_>
    Nononono. xD I didn't mean e-mail them using my phone. I meant e-mail them as in, going on the computer. :P

    And they don't want me using my cell while I'm at home. I have to use the home phone if I wanted to talk to anyone. ._.

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    seriously if I had cost my parents that much money when I was younger it better have been for a permanent change e.g bracers, medical treatment I needed or education, otherwise I would of got my *** tanned 17 types of black and blue.
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    I share 500 minutes/texts with my family, so between the three of us, we get either 500 texts, 500 minutes, or a combo.

    We barely use the minutes. We have like two thousand rollover minutes.

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    Damn!
    I text everyday around the 100-200 text messages, but I never even really got that far above what is allowed xD

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