February 06, 2008
Police post callers get exciting message
BRIDGEPORT, Michigan - People calling a Michigan state police post got an unexpected pitch for phone sex. Calls to the Bridgeport post's main number were met Wednesday morning with a recorded message saying, "Indulge yourself with the most exciting conversation imaginable."
That was followed by a telephone number for a phone sex line, The Saginaw News reported. The phones were working properly by midmorning, Sgt. Alan Renz said.
The mix-up was an "internal issue that has nothing to do with the phone company" and an investigation is underway, he told the newspaper.
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April 19, 2007
Sex predator hotline goes to sex line
MINEOLA, N.Y. - Talk about your wrong number. An effort to provide constituents with a hotline number that helps track the location of sexual predators backfired for a group of Long Island politicians when they mistakenly listed a telephone number that connects callers to a sex chat line.
"Hey there, sexy guy," a sultry recorded female voice is heard telling callers to the wrong number. "Welcome to an exciting new way to go live, one on one, with hot horny girls waiting right now to talk to you."
That's not what Nassau County Legislator Peter J. Schmitt and seven colleagues intended when they sent out postcards to constituents announcing an initiative with the Long Island-based Parents for Megan's Law, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of sex abuse.
"Apparently there was an error in the phone number," Ed Ward, a spokesman for the lawmakers acknowledged.
The politicians advertised a "1-800" toll free number when it should have been "1-888," Ward said.
"The intent was to alert homeowners and parents to join the Parents for Megan's Law e-mail alert program," Ward said. "They could go on the computer and get an alert if a sex offender lives on their block or in their neighborhood."
Laura Ahearn, the executive director of the Megan's Law group, was not upset.
"It is a common mistake that is made," Ahearn said. "We just hope no one was inconvenienced."
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March 01, 2007
AIDS hot line number rings up sex line
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - A bookmark distributed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services not only teaches teens and children about HIV and AIDS, it provides a phone number that patches them into a hardcore sex hot line.
St. Joseph resident Lori Felzien said she found out about the hot line when her sixth-grade son dialed the number printed on a bookmark he received during a health lesson at Bessie Ellison Elementary School.
The boy handed her mother the phone and said, "Mom, listen to this."
Felzien's reaction: "We've got to get these cards out of these kids' hands."
The toll-free number once belonged to Teens Teaching AIDS Prevention, part of the Kansas City-based nonprofit Good Samaritan Project. But the AIDS hot line went out of service about a year ago and a sex hot line has since taken over the number.
Felzien said she contacted the school and Mitzi Teliczan of the Buchanan County Health Department, which is also listed on the bookmark.
Teliczan said the department approved a series of bookmarks on different topics several years ago. They were distributed throughout local schools over the past few years.
Nanci Gonder, a spokeswoman for the Missouri health department, said her office is attempting to contact HIV and AIDS prevention groups around the state about the mix up.
She said the health department didn't know the AIDS hot line no longer existed until this week. Gonder added that it will now review all phone numbers it distributes.
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October 31, 2006
Mayor mistakenly hands out sex number
EDMOND, Okla. - The mayor personally distributed thousands of fliers discouraging underage drinking only to find they mistakenly contained the phone number for a sex talk line.
Edmond Mayor Saundra Naifeh and more than five dozen volunteers went door-to-door Saturday to deliver 22,000 fliers. The city attorney notified Naifeh Saturday night after the police department learned of the mistake.
"Obviously, it made me feel sick," Naifeh said. "I had a blister on one foot (from going door-to-door) when the city attorney told me the number was wrong. I have no idea how the error happened."
Callers dialing the number were promised "exciting live talk" if they called a second number offering provocative telephone conversations or text messages costing 99 cents to $2.99 a minute.
City Manager Larry Stevens called the wrong listing an inadvertent error that occurred when the card was designed by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
Naifeh said writing a story identifying the nature of the wrong telephone number was sensationalism and tabloid news.
"It will change the focus of what we were doing," she said. "It is not part of the story."
Naifeh had chosen the campaign to fight underage drinking as Edmond's contribution to Make A Difference Day, a national day set aside to help neighbors and the community.
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