Phonegate

[Heaven&Hoops]

Has it become such common place for PSU players to get in trouble with the law, that nobody on this message board brings it up anymore?

[flybynight]

or i think others make a bigger deal out of than it should be, dont get me wrong, its bad, but why do some harp on the negative when they can look at the good?

[Heaven&Hoops]

What is good about harrassment?

[flybynight]

nothing at all is good about what they did, buti meant dont let that overshadow the good things, dont let a few bad apples ruin the whole bunch

[ham55]

yup, it's real hard to take the phone off the hook or turn your phone off to stop calls like that.

You're right, they should be cuffed and thrown away for the unhumane acts they performed. Maybe next time someone will go 'ring and run'-ing and they should get the death sentence!

[once a runner]

Do 80-90% of guys make crank calls for a 3 month period that require police involvment? I'm guessing this a little more serious than "is your refrigator running?" crank call. But I guess students at Penn State were not alerted to the fact that they are to take the phone off the hook if a football player is harassing them. Maybe they can add that tidbit at their future orientations.

[El-Moldo]

According to the Reading Eagle, this was NO little thing. Since May, these 3 guys harassed a former coach to the point where he thought his life was threatened, I mean stuff like "I'm going to bash your face in" is nothing to sneeze about. Again, this wasn't "do you have Prince Albert in a can". The receiver of the calls finally called the police and things took off from there

[El-Moldo]

Of course, the answer to the problem according to bdftbllham 55 is for the guy being harassed to turn off his phone, or take the phone off the hook. I guess if there is a Peeping Tom running around the neighborhood, everyone should just pull their blinds down or close their curtains. That would solve the problem, right?????

[ham55]

No, but I've received calls like that before, at 2 or later in the morning, with blocked numbers, and it happened every night for around 3 weeks, but i just turned off my phone and deleted all the voicemails that I received from the night before. Was it fun? No. But if someone is really going to do something, they wouldn't be pissing around by using the phone, it would have become greater.

[once a runner]

Ham, why should the victim of the crime be the one who is punished? If your crank calls continued through the daytime, would you still have left your phone off? If the solution was to turn your phone off all the time, wouldn't you eventually miss phone calls that were actually important to you? There are laws against harassment. Let's not blame the victims here.