Friday, May 14, 2004

Man Destroys Verizon Store, Says 'Oops'

A man in Fargo, North Dakota, decided to fight back against his cellular provider after he became fed up with with his service. The man, Jason Perala, walked into the Verizon store at the local Fargo mall and proceeded to throw computers and phones, causing $2,000 in damage.

"I kind of regret that I did it, but I hope my message got across," he said. After being arrested, Perala told police that he believes "AT&T will now lower its prices and provide all its customers better service" because of his actions. After the arresting officer informed him that he had demolished a Verizon store, which is not affiliated with AT&T, Perala apologized and asked if he could be released to vandalize the AT&T Wireless store as he had originally intended. Police denied his request and later noted that Perala had been arrested in 2002 for severely damaging a local US Post Office, when he was quoted as saying he was "happy" he had "made FedEx pay" for losing his package.

1 Comments:

At 5:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think everybody has wanted to trash their phone for the bill at some point. My service goes ina nd out all the time, but i have sprint, so Peralla messed up the wrong store.

Bill in Pittsburgh,PA

 

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