Retards send 217,000 text messages, get hit with 26,000 bill[views:1805][posts:11]________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 1:58am - zyklon ""] PHILADELPHIA – Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000. Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were relying on their unlimited text messaging plans to get them through the escapade, so Andes didn't expect such a big bill. "It came in a box that cost $27.55 to send to me," he said Tuesday. He said he "panicked" and called T-Mobile, which told The Associated Press it had credited his account and was investigating the charges. The two Lancaster-area residents have been practically nonstop texters for about a decade since they attended Berks Technical Institute together. That led Andes to search for the largest monthly text message total he could find posted online: 182,000 sent in 2005 by Deepak Sharma in India. Andes and Klinger were able to set up their phones to send multiple messages. During a February test run they found they could send 6,000 or 7,000 messages on some days, prompting the March messaging marathon. "Most were either short phrases or one word, 'LOL' or 'Hello,' things like that, with tons and tons of repeats," said Andes, reached by phone. Andes sent more than 140,000 messages, and Klinger sent more than 70,000 to end the month with a total of just over 217,000, he said. A spokesman for Guinness World Records didn't immediately return messages asking whether it would be certified as a record. April came as a relief to Andes' wife, Julie, who had found his phone tied up with texting when she tried to call him on lunch breaks. "She was tired of it the first few days into it," Andes said. |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 9:01am - largefreakatzero ""] The world is clearly doomed. |
| _________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 9:03am - oscarct ""] that is not a record to be proud of |
| __________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 9:09am - DYA NLI ""] TEXTING RAMPAGE |
| _________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 9:26am - sxealex ""] its probably castledoomerown |
| _________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 9:26am - sxealex ""] and everything else |
| _______________________________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 9:43am - I wants to be your president ""] I hope they aren't white. |
| __________________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 11:20am - BobNOMAAMRooney ""] Bob Cunningham ACE Hardware 32 Bacon Chicken Ranges the poop was grey |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 11:35am - dreadkill ""] his purf was orange he barbed in my ear and i said what do you say and he said what am i dopouse to say |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 11:38am - archaeon ""] At least they did it on purpose. not some retarded 13 year old girl texting her boyfriend. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 12:06pm - the_reverend ""] dwyer could beat this. |
| ________________________________ [Apr 22,2009 2:38pm - zyklon ""] Hahahahahaha |