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B10 The Acton Free Press Wednesday July 5 Victims nightmare callers satisfaction To the person on the rccelv lug end of the telephone the experience tan be a terrify nightmare filled with suspicions threats A quiet life TRIXIE Greenore Cres went the entire parade route and only fell off her wagon twice SPREADING the word Peter Marks stands on the opening ceremony platform proudly dis playing his patriotic shirt Real Kslale MARKET PLACE For Rent ft mo a loco on Ma St LCBO hi i I I loads on t Lit rk on jre n is rear pi tut I CALLKENNEWELL Call 8784121 or Toronto 270 NEW HOMES under a Acton IBov Clio ci of docotoling lot oar ire J I ro sod bungalows aye F n ugh for stove f shed room L I In at Clo j BUYS THIS Third Phase nrjl am I rough out freshly paint On 17lh Sida to paved rouci nowor homos TRADE YOUR HOUSE lor a In and pa throughout largo or on main floor Main lau dry nan Bamwisortf ly ALTEO CONSTRUCTION LIMITED Main St N Acton Phono days ngs or 519 suddenly be turned upside down as soon as the telephone rings Obscene or harassing phone calls happen to anyone male or female youngorold The caller could be a adult or a youngster bored with nothing to do who decides to get his kicks at the expense of others In most cases the caller is known to the victim soys Shell of Bell Con ado although the victim may the other end of the line In many the is never caught becomes bored with his strange pastttme and the calls stop However in other cases the calls persist the police Hell Canada are notified and steps are taken to catch Hie guilty party Jail terms stiff fines of probation miiv result loci family not too long ieo went through a night more for two weeks received up to ten calls a all from the same person members soon learned a new iry as the caller lashed out with a string of obscenities If hung up on he would soon call ick and repeat the process The wife and daughters were not the only largest of the caller If the husband or son answered the caller was not discouraged He just continued with his foul age and filthy comments any way The family could find no reason why anyone would make such calls to their home and break their peace- fulness When the phone rang members stiffened in nation of what they would hear when they picked up the telephone After a while no one except the father an the telephone but this proved no deterrent They had a suspect but no proof He denied the lions when confronted and the calls continued After two weeks of having their life lotallv disrupted the police were called They explained they were getting up to ten colls a day for two weeks They would immed hang up but that did not seem to bother the caller Hell Canada is notified and the two forces worked together to put in end to the cills devices were attached to the phone in order to lr ick the origin of the Hell minorities were standing by waiting for the next call according to family members However it never came The calls ceased as suddenly and as mysteriously as they had started Not all bothersome phone calls are obscene and not all of them are to the home Mrs Raddle says She explained that many people get the calls in their place of An irate customer will call to threaten the victim and keep calling until the victim becomes harassed Or he calls may be an offshoot of harassing or obscene directed originally to the home home calls may even be from competitors The same ad vice holds true In these cases hang up immediately In the telephone book under Some Useful there is advice on whit do when victim of I he first is to hang up What the caller really w is an audit nee Don be tint it says Hang up if the say at the first obscene word of if lie caller doesn l identify himself her self most terrifying coll Is when the caller he knows the and is Ihem at all limes even as they speak on the telephone In this ease the victim fears lor his or her life Ik or she Iso becomes suspicious of their friends acquaintances or anyone they sec on the street It can 1c to a neuro tic life until the calls ore stopped Sometimes the number is just chosen randomly out of the phone book or someone picks up the receiver and dials any group of numbers In most coses Mrs says the calls are more of annoyance than anything Use If the victim lets it go and docs not let the bother him or her they us stop Hill manager of Hell Canada explained that if the victim remains calm and shows the he is not the calls usually stop He to upset and bother you Mr Salmon sold Don t give him the satisfaction Constable Hon Donaldson of the lit Clonal Police agreed with both Mrs iddu and Mr Salmon the ills come in cycles Weeks and months can go p and they will hove no complaints and suddenly they have several There is i definite link In hi calls and when school is out for holidays Mrs Const Donaldson explained th it when the caller is caught and charged it is usually a male teenager He stated that if the calls persist the victim usually has to get their number changed or an unlisted number He figures one out of three victims call the police and Hell CanadT Some say there is a sharp increase In calls when the moon is full when the weather is warm It is some thing cannot be proven but is they point out It is loo obvious to overlook Hilton Hills callers have no preference as to towns Acton gels is many calls is George town according to the police miLhl have six com every two months Don However in spite of the statistics that callers ire just out for kicks and not meaning to do any barn to anyone when the telephone rings at the home of the v tension mounts It mount ii punished illtr lim the continues calls stop and came to Back to Acton Days over the isl couple of years 1 mv western The list of things never iv life is or si inth to Ik Albert in fl evening ItKl things like maLpits pe it vuld honeysuckle and curving lo end in hayptle And government And one almost put our necks out of joint lichtne the lights slit low in ring ins till wire overlie id The lights then rtdnted from win forming leffce iboveus new presents itself in one form or mother our seem only too to mill lit mi into the moils I been pushed up over dripped down and e lulled REAL ESTATE ind of things nth I muss I m tit on is somebody whos inlcrcstulinAMthnie I weekend I ended up it pirty not sure what to expect finding more thin I d thought The scene seemed to be one of miss confusion is two neighbours of ill sires and igcs lent their hands to whit hove otherwise in en tedious job Hut itching I could set tint despite people knew it doing id they Thin on Hit knife the fringes to throw them selves liter illy into the act whenever and wherever needed On the sideline wire Hit rs Willi somi of Hit vouneei crowd to outdo ropers by their ire hinds In two moved their slowly through the shppine i round the feel of ilvis todi it up Hie fire Mivbt should si 111 it one did the ind the other only i lot exercise md good hecklim i thought the fire the flipped onto their then Meld down hit or it tin of sitters deptndint on of the how opt ihccitllc we pliy their IMS RETIRING Country ell nil Urge treed lot p if mot Complete Or en All tin Mob lo Hone Church Services vwth peopl the oilier shouldi r Ii ding BRANDING PARTY at Buck Creek Alberta brings everybody out Wendy Thomson writes about in her column this week the Painted Box fort from Iht branding men comparing bruises had their jeans pulled up well of the other ibove their knees displaying western boots and lengths of mulli colored legs And one scene I declined to even to take pictures was the prairie oyster held later 1 know most of you won t know what that is but ill 1 1 in tell you is find in old time western farmer and ask him There are some things I rather gloss over There are two other ex in the offing One is flight to the mountains in a missed two prune shotsone small the other ice of i who fishing in Buck Lake to lighten Ins rope dropped That II be awhile from now iround his own both Tin other would have been think 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