He insisted her company needed some ink for its copying machine and she needed to buy it right then or be charged an extra $20 next year. He told her exactly what to tell the shipping department when they called to confirm the order.
Sainsbury then spoke to her boss, who said the ink supply was covered by the company's lease of the machine. When Tom called back to ask whether or not the shipping department had contacted her, she began to tell him what she learned. But he cut her off, swore at her and hung up.
She called the local Xerox representative who explained this has been going on for a while and the telescammers (not associated with Xerox at all) charge about five times what the ink or other supplies are worth. They move often to different locations with untraceable telephone lines.
Priority list: Transplanted Utahn Don Haley wanted to share a frustration he experienced in the emergency room at Providence Hospital in Seattle that he suspects happens in many other hospitals around the country.
Haley had just returned from his third Gulf area deployment with the U.S. Navy when, while working around his home, he stepped on a nail that penetrated his left foot.
He drove himself to the emergency room and, after three hours of waiting, his foot had swollen to three times its normal size, causing him excruciating pain. He could see the veins in his leg darkening.
Suddenly, two state correctional officers escorted a handcuffed prisoner, who had been in a fist fight at the prison, into the emergency waiting room. The prisoner, whose medical care was free for him, was given head-of-the-line treatment, ahead of Haley and a small child sitting next to him who was burning up with fever.
Coming right at you: Dana Daro of West Valley City was startled Thursday afternoon about 5 p.m. when she saw a UTA bus driver behaving like a tank operator.
A line of cars was waiting for the red light to change at 4100 South and Redwood Road. The bus driver apparently didn't want to wait for the traffic to slowly move up enough on 4100 South so that he could move into the left-turn lane to go south on Redwood Road. The bus suddenly veered onto the center divider and roared past startled motorists to get into the turn lane.
The bus number was 9904.
A double tragedy While the Weber State Wildcats were being massacred by UCLA in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Sacramento on the same night, on the other side of the continent, Weber State's performing arts troupe was in Washington, D.C., participating in a Shakespearean festival at the Kennedy Center.
And what tragedy did the Weber State students admirably perform? "Macbeth."
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