Get hit by tornado, then get hit up by cable company

[The Straight Story]

Weird News: Get hit by tornado, then get hit up by cable company

WHEATLAND, Wis. — Having a tornado demolish her home was bad enough. But weeks later when Ann Beam received a $2,000 cable bill for destroyed equipment, she was floored.

“I just couldn’t believe it,” Beam said. “I was like, ’What are they thinking?’”

Time Warner Cable billed a number of Wheatland residents for equipment damaged in the Jan. 7 twister. Beam’s bill covered five cable boxes and five remote controls.

She immediately called the cable company, but a man who identified himself as a manager said there was nothing the company could do.

“They said I would have to take the bill and turn it in to my insurance company,” Beam told the Kenosha News.

But her cable equipment was nine years old, and the insurance company would pay only a depreciated value, she said.

http://www.kansascity.com/286/story/471403.html

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. If the boxes were cable company property, then it's the cable

company that needs to fight with the insurance company.

Please. Let them tear each other a new one. Mutually.

[Berry Cool]

2. The cable company already scrapped the bill

or so Olbermann reported last week. Thank goodness. Otherwise he'd have called them Worst Person in the World, probably.