Woman, 62, Fights $1,431 Cable Porn Bill

[MADem]

Talk about having a bad day!

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) - A 62-year-old retired schoolteacher is fighting with a cable company over a hefty bill for porn and gangsta rap programming she says she never ordered.

The charges of more than $1,000 appeared on Claudia Lee's February Cablevision bill, shortly after she bundled her cable TV, computer and phone services....She said she has been forced to pay $779 to the company and was told to pay $652 more or face having her services cut off.

"Every time I call, somebody tells me something different...Cablevision spokesman Bill Powers said Lee may not have ordered the pay-per-view programming, but someone in her home did. Lee claimed someone pirated her connection. Powers said the company did not find theft of service.

On Friday, however, Cablevision issued a statement saying, "We are suspending these charges pending a full investigation ...." Lee said the only regular visitor to her house is her 81-year-old mother, "and I don't think she wants to watch porn."

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[bleedingheart]

1. I would tell them to cancel the cable and then tell recruit neighbors

to cancel their cable too....once you get about 30 or so people to back you up...all those charges will go away because it will cost them way more in lost revenue...

[nebula]

2. Fees suspended since the story became publicized?

[MadHound]

3. Frankly it sounds like somebody pirated her connection

And then being a very tidy little thief, they cleaned up any evidence of their theft after they were done. Just because the cable company didn't find any evidence of theft doesn't mean it didn't happen. Most cable set ups that I know of require a simple wire connection, and you don't even have to splice it in, coax connections are provided.

But damn, $1400 for porn. Somebody is really getting it on. That's somewhere around three movies a day.

[JVS]

4. 3 movies a day for what period of time?

[MadHound]

5. A month

I'm using that figure, for that is how long normal billing cycles for cable are:shrug: