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Phone Sex: The Anti-Anti-Drug
One of Tennessee's anti-drug strategies apparently involves a hotline for at-risk kids who are sitting around thinking "What are the dangers of meth?" and decide to seek an immediate answer from the state of Tennessee. A brilliant strategy to be sure; alas, a neglectful typist has foiled the plan:
A mass mailing intended to warn young people about the dangers of methamphetamine inadvertently included a hotline number that rings to a telephone sex line.
The mailing was part of a statewide anti-meth campaign sponsored by a prosecutors' group.
"It's an unfortunate mistake when somebody types a 9 when there should have been an 8," said Coffee County District Attorney General Mickey Lane, whose office received several complaints. "What are the odds (of) it being a business such as this. I'm told that it's been corrected."
Via Rational Review.
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MP|2.24.06 @ 10:30AM|#
"What are the odds (of) it being a business such as this. I'm told that it's been corrected."
Yeah...who ever heard of a 900 number used for phone sex? Astonishing...
|2.24.06 @ 11:03AM|#
Well if you waste all your money on a 900 number, you can't buy meth. Wonder if the state will reimburse any of the kids who actually called it. I think if I got a mailing that had a toll free 900 number on it, I'd give it a try. I bet a lot of the guys who frequent this site are familiar with 900 numbers, or are those antiquated now with all of the internet porn?
Captain Holly|2.24.06 @ 11:43AM|#
Trust me, access to a phone sex line is the last thing you want to give a methhead.
Larry A|2.24.06 @ 12:14PM|#
What are the odds...
Pretty high. The more government does, the more it screws up.
Tina|2.24.06 @ 4:12PM|#
Well, phone sex and wanking are a good incentive to stay off meth since the drug inhibits the ability to sustain erection. what's the point of being horny for 5 hours if you can't do anything about it?
|2.24.06 @ 8:14PM|#
Classic.
That is all.
|2.24.06 @ 9:31PM|#
I guess the only good thing about the drug war is its entertainment value :)
|2.24.06 @ 9:35PM|#
"What are the odds (of) it being a business such as this."
Actually they're pretty high odds. I have inadvertently called many a sex line (800 numbers that will eventually ask for a credit card) in the course of business. Misdial by one digit or reverse two digits and it's good for a laugh. It's always amusing when I'm dialing on speakerphone and a client is sitting in front of me...
Neb Okla|2.24.06 @ 10:38PM|#
Back in 1994-1996 range when I worked at CompUSA in customer service, I periodically heard complaints from Mac users who called 1-800-S0S-APPLE for tech support instead of 1-800-SOS-APPLE.
If I were the phone sex company, I would have made it sound like some kind of crazy kinky Mac support vixen. It probably would have been much more popular.
|2.24.06 @ 11:15PM|#
"Well, phone sex and wanking are a good incentive to stay off meth since the drug inhibits the ability to sustain erection. what's the point of being horny for 5 hours if you can't do anything about it?"
You've been hanging around the wrong sort of tweakers haven't you? Don't always believe what the gov't tells you. I was a tweaker back in the bad old days (like 6 or 7 days up at a time) and sustained erections were the norm. Christ on a bike, it's the only thing I miss about those days. Hell, I was doing loads of heroin and the whole benzodiazepine family at the time. If anything, speed was my saving grace. I could have never maintained it without the speed.
Never did get the attraction of sex lines though...
George|2.27.06 @ 8:40AM|#
Interesting topic, I wonder how many people call those phone sex lines?
Martin|2.27.06 @ 8:43AM|#
A lot of people must call those phone sex lines and I'll bet it makes a lot of money too.
Phone sex pusher|2.28.06 @ 12:41PM|#
Phone sex is alive and well despite webcams, internet porn and good information on prostitution. Yes it is profitable ;-)
mark|11.15.10 @ 5:53PM|#
I find great income, and I enjoy chatting to the girls as well