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| Wife Fat? Kids Lazy? Sue The Cable Company! |
| 2004-01-07 |
| Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says. And heâs threatening to sue the cable company. Timothy Dumouchel of West Bend wants $5,000 or three computers, and a lifetime supply of free Internet service from Charter Communications to settle what he says will be a small claims suit. So you can add internet porn addiction to your next suit? Dumouchel blames Charter for his TV addiction, his wifeâs 50-pound weight gain and his childrenâs being âlazy channel surfers,â according to a Fond du Lac police report. I pity the cops who have to write these reports, no wonder they get drunk and eat their guns. Charter employees called police to the local office at 165 Knightâs Way the evening of Dec. 23 after Dumouchel showed up with a small claims complaint, reportedly intimidated an employee and made âlow-level threatsâ to employeesâ safety, according to a police report. The report states Dumouchel gave an employee five minutes to get a supervisor to talk to him or their next contact would be âin the ocean with the sharks.â Dude, this is the CABLE COMPANY!! They eat sharks for breakfast! According to the report, Dumouchel told Charter employees he plans to sue because his cable connection remained intact four years after he tried to get it canceled.The result was that he and his family got free cable from August of 1999 to Dec. 23, 2003. According to the police report, Dumouchel called Charter to stop his cable service in August of 1999 and was taken off the billing but not the cable service. Gee, I wish I had this kind of problem. In a written statement, he said he put the family TV in the basement in 1999 after he had called to get cable disconnected, but soon thereafter, his wife had moved it back and hooked up the cable connection, and it still worked. He stated he âmade a dealâ with her that âshe could watch TV as long as the cable worked.â He then went back to Charter and asked that they disconnect his service, which they reportedly never did. Tim, maybe your wife made her own deal with the cable guy. |
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