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I bet the tech didn't even fix the problem ;)
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@Chongo:
Seriously, at that point unless the problem was caused by several dozen 100$ bills stuffed into the insulation of the cable i woulda been so outa there too!
I bet the tech didn't even fix the problem ;)
@Chongo:
Seriously, at that point unless the problem was caused by several dozen 100$ bills stuffed into the insulation of the cable i woulda been so outa there too!
Is this Comcastic?
I remember back when I worked for Comcast and I was scheduling a tech to come out to someone's home to fix their internet which had been down for like a week or something. It was terrible service and I hated the job a ton because the service I could provide was stuff I wouldn't be happy with.
Anyway, once we had confirmed a time the customer said \"I'm going to abduct the technician.\" Not an ounce of joking was to be heard in his voice.
I clarified and asked \"are you serious?\"
He replied, even more sternly than before, \"damn right I am. I'm going to kick his ass and keep him here at gunpoint if I have to until my internet is fixed.\"
At that point I told him that I refused to send out a tech to his home. When he inquired why I told him that I morally wouldn't schedule anyone to go out to someone's home that's actually intent on causing them harm, physical or otherwise.
He was mighty pissed but didn't apologize nor did he even attempt to say he was kidding. I ended up disconnecting the call.
I could understand where he's coming from, I'd be absolutely livid if my internet was down for that long but I mean come on. I don't even like Comcast techs but I'm not going to knowingly send them into any situation where someone has made direct threats against their person.
Long story short: If you're a customer don't do anything illegal thinking you're going to \"get back\" at the company. It will only set you back.
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@Aidan Roche: Boy was that customer stupid you are supposed to wait until after the guy arrives to tell him that. Man doesnt anyone have any sense in the world?
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@Aidan Roche: Remember kids, it's completely ok to get screwed by a company. Just don't go trying to screw them back. That's illegal.
@YNinja: Why do customers always think that screwing an individual who works for a sucky company is the same as screwing the company? Listen, children, the company is screwing that employee just as much as they're screwing you. How are they screwing that employee? By making policies that leave the customer impotent to do anything but yell, threaten, and eventually attempt violence on the non-policy-making employees. That field tech could be the most well-meaning, experience tech with the company. He could be the guy who is not only going to fix your service, but is going to find out the root cause and keep it from ever happening again. But you'll never know because you're too busy treating him like your bitch.
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@cambiata: Well, I would say that in the case of Comcast, the sucky company does have a lot of sucky people working there.
@YNinja: Oh, this is SO an eye for an eye situation. Yeah, so you have slow internet. That cost you what, 50 bucks? That gives you the right to threaten someone's life, in the case of Adian's story, or show your genitals to them in the case of the original story? Seriously, grow up people. If you are dissatisfied, find somewhere else or be polite about it. Stop being self righteous dicks.
@Alternate, I cho-cho-chose the impossible: I think you should follow the last line you stated. I would imagine that Psychicword was being a dick/bitch on purpose. Maybe even to make a joke.
Stop taking it so seriously.
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@Aidan Roche: I'd say there's livid and there's outright batsh!t crazy. Your guy falls into the latter.
All I can think, is maybe this guy kept hearing Consumerist readers saying \"fuck comcast\" for so long that he decided to go through with it, you know, for all of our sakes.
@chuck0008: I think you have the wrong character. I believe he supposedly just rose not too long ago. I saw him on my toast this morning....damn was that toast good.
\"However, the witness said, Trikes then exposed his genitals, which made the technician extremely uncomfortable.\"
For some reason I found that line very funny.
@Dragonis: I feel like the article should've been more accurate, which is to say that it should have read something like, \"Trikes then exposed his genitals, which made the technician scream in terror, vomit in the corner and run out the door.\"
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@pecan 3.14159265: Or perhaps, \"Trikes then exposed his genitals, which made the technician face his own latent homosexual feelings.\"
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Sounds like the script for a porno, only different.
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@RandomHookup: \"I'm here to fix your cable! Hey.... your TV's not plugged in...\"
\"I know...\"
/cue 80's music
I can understand that the technician was uncomfortable, and he should have definitely just left and reported to the company why he did.
But what exactly does the technician get out of pressing charges here? He's probably never going to see that man again for the rest of his life anyway. I know the technician is the victim of a crime, technically, but doesn't this seem like maybe it's more appropriate as a funny story to tell than a chance to file a police report?
@ahoy-captain: I would imagine if you were the one who was in a stranger's house, while working, and the guy showed you something you didnt want to see, I imagine you would sing a much different tune. I would press charges all the way. I would even try to get a restraining.
@ahoy-captain: You're joking right? The dude is obviously demented and needs to be reported to the police, hopefully to deter him from doing it again.
@LostTurntable: Exactly. Typically, well-adjusted individuals tend not to whip it out for complete strangers. I'd wager a large bet that this wasn't the first time he's done it.
And you know what? Speaking as someone who's been flashed in public a few times, it isn't the greatest experience. It's super creepy. If I had had the home addresses of the men who had flashed me at my disposal, I probably would have reported them, even if I \"never had to see them again\", as ahoy-captain puts it.
@ahoy-captain: Maybe this guy gets off on showing repair men and techs (and other service people) his genitals and his porn stash. Its smart to complain about it in this case because if this guy is doing it to everyone who comes into his house to fix something perhaps it will become known and he will never be able to get service for anything anymore.
@ahoy-captain: Replace exposed genitals with rape, assault, or battery. Sure, someone raped won't get anything from pressing charges...
/sarcasm.
@ahoy-captain: Could be, this guy could do it over and over again. Maybe by doing this it will get me... I mean this guy to stop doing things like this.
@ahoy-captain: I just RTFA and see it was the supervisor who called police. So I guess my comment doesn't really apply.
@ahoy-captain: According to the article, this guy is a repeat offender. It's likely he *did* have some unreported victims who weren't doing anybody any favors by just \"forgetting about it.\"
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Can one be charged with indecent exposure in one's own home? I realize the perp has a record but wouldn't this be a matter of \"he said, he said\" unless there is a defining birth mark? Just sayin....
Some of the techs I deal with tell me some horror stories that make this seem tame. I won't go into explict details, but let's say one involved a basement dungeon.
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Maybe he was recreating the \"dick wagging\" scene that Comcast broadcast during the Super Bowl?
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He must have watched CNN and learned about TeaBagging! lol
@brandymb: Okay i saw way to many instances of \"Teabagging\" on CNN last week, surely it couldn't be what i thought it was, could it?
Great! The one time my hometown is mentioned in a newsworthy event online and its this one. :-(
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In my computer repair center I had someone expose their butt to me*, but not genitals. Probably a good thing, as my instinct would probably be to kick them.
* Not mooning, surprisingly. Oh no, he just HAD to \"show me his tattoo.\" God, I need another job.
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The charge carries a penalty ranging from one day to life in prison.
That's quite a range.
And while I am all in favor of keeping one's junk in one's pants in public, it does seem odd that exposing the goodies could get life in prison. Some murderers don't even get anything near that.
I'l bet money you now gave a porno director an awesome idea.
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@Crystal Wojcinski:
Director?
Plot?
Ideas?
That is so 1970s-1980's...
Digital cam in the back of a rental van...now that is the modern day way due to the \"Jackassification\" of adult entertainment.
(BTW do not rent any full size multi-passenger vans in Southern California. Just trust me on that one.)
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ugh I had someone wag their dick at me once. Question for dick waggers: Has this ever worked? Ever? Have you had one favorable outcome from this behavior?
You dont see women flashing vaginas! What is with this behavior. SO bizarre
@RandomHookup: There is a world of difference between putting yourself on the web for people who WANT to see it to find, and randomly showing your bits to strangers who do NOT want to see it.
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@VPea:
I'm willing to bet that if there were more vagina flashing, it would solve all the world's woes. Wars would be ended, no one would ever go hungry, poverty will be a thing of the past - heck, I think that it would also solve global warming!
A guy can dream, right? ;)
Yay! My hometown made the Consumerist -- oh wait, that's not a good thing, is it?
I wonder if Ryan (submitter) is someone I know. I don't know Mr. Hit-On-The-Comcast-Guy...
Most likely not - I'm about 20 years older than you, based on the quick look-up of your FB profile. Ah well, at least it's good to see there are other Consumerist-enlightened people in LivCo!
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If the flasher had been a pretty chick, I bet this story would have ended up more like the porn scenario it resembles. And ladies -- if we tried to bring charges every time a guy started talking pervy and showing his package, do you think we'd be taken as seriously?
Nice picture choice, though.
@JulesNoctambule: exactly! When it happened to me I ran to my older woman friend appalled and her response: Ya I remember the first time that happened to me
first? there will be more! Now I enjoy a penis as much as the next gal but not random wagging.
Thats so sad but i shouldn't talk. The one time Hammond, Indiana made Fark was for a strip club being raided for prostitution. I'm not sure if this is a step up or down from that.
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Only because you said please, Chris.
I'm pretty sure I know why the perp's internet was slow. If he was visiting all those porn sites, there's a good chance his computer is riddled with spy and adware eating up his bandwidth and computer resources.
Heck, I would have said \"Wow - it looks exactly like a penis... only smaller!\"
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This is actually a pretty serious situation. This type of behavior is normally a starting point for most sexual offenders. They begin by peeping, then progress to exposure, after that it goes to more serious offenses such as assault, with the end result of course being assault with murderous intent.
Maybe with the charges this guy gets and if he is convicted as a sex offender he may get the help he needs thus saving someone a terrible fate.
Who knows....
On the other hand maybe the tech is a freak too and something very bad went on here.... lol
I live in Brighton and was the person who forwarded the story. I just laughed when I saw it on the Press & Argus site, so funny!
I'm trying to figure out what the crime here is.
You come into someone's home, they live (in the privacy of their own home) as they see fit. If that means jumping naked up and down on the furniture, that's their business.
If you don't like it, you politely leave, and explain that you won't give them service because your techs are uncomfortable.
But is it a crime? Not that I can tell.
Problem is the amount of inappropriate exposure directly correlates to the attractiveness of the perpetrator.
It's NEVER a good-looking person doing these things.
After reading this story, I just had to push the \"expand all\" button/link
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I've always wondered about sexual harrasment laws in the workplace where the general public was involved. If a person walks into a restaurant and harrasses the waitress, is that sexual harrasment? (or only if a co-worker, and not a patron, were guilty?) And this example - where the workplace is a prvate home. Does that make a customer an employer?
@NotChoinski: Customers who mess with employees are more like assault or some real crime charge like this Comcast case. Go to restaurant and grab a waitress or get nasty in talking to her and you will find out pretty quick the same thing applies.( In some locations you can even be cited for cursing due to old laws on the books.)
Harrasment is directed to the employee to employee, employee to supervisor, or employee to vendor relationships.
With all the times Comcast has forced porn on people due to switching screw-ups, it's about time they get a nice nasty dose of it themselves.
Can I just say this:
Brilliant photo choice.
Thank you, that is all.
The article doesn't state how he exposed his junk. Did he drop his pants or walk into the room naked? Was he wearing a robe or loose shorts without underwear and it was visible when he sat down? Was it intentional or did the mouse escape from the house?
So does he have Comcast or does he have Cox?
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This is the problem with people's perceptions about the job description of a Comcast technician. The article, and Consumerist, both call this person a \"Computer Technician\" when Comcast doesn't hire any computer technicians to service any computers. If a Comcast technician touches your computer they do so at their own risk, outside of company policy. Comcast technicians are more like electricians than IT persons, and they are NOT computer technicians...
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So you can't even haul your dick out in your own house anymore?
Is this what America is coming to?
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I am sure Comcast charges big bucks for subscribing to the genital channels so I don't see why a customer should be giving it away for free!
I work tech support for a company and our hands are really tied when it comes to fully assisting customers.
I've been threatened time and time again. The reality is that sometimes we will help someone, going against company policy. I assure you, the people that get that extra help, the ones that make you risk getting called out, they're the nicer and more polite ones. The crazies get the template responses.
I dislike the job and have often refused to do some things here, but there isn't a lot I can do until I find something better. Definitely this isn't the economic environment to be unemployed in.
Had this been a woman exposing herself to the Comcast guy, he would have written a letter that started a little more like:
\"Dear Penthouse...\"
@Brandi Hendrix: The ACLU should sue so that gay men can flash others in their own homes, which has been a freedom unfairly restricted to women
ROTFL, this guy is clearly not the brightest bulb in the pack!
RT
www.privacy.pro.tc
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I know he needed a service call, but Comcast only provides that particular service in a figurative manner.
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I asked our maintenance man if he had people hitting on him when he came into their apartments and he said, \"ALL THE TIME.\" He went on to say that they were usually gross, both men and women.
Odd.
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At least someone dicked Comcast over for once!
@DerangedRoleModel: I see what you did there.
@DerangedRoleModel: Exactly. So it's ok for Comcast to show us a wagging penis in my market during the Superbowl (whatever happened to that anyhow?), but not ok for us to do the same?
I sense a double standard! ;)