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Here’s yet another reason to join the cord-cutting revolution.

A man in Spokane, Washington was surprised to find out that Comcast had changed his name from Ricardo Brown to “a**hole” Brown on his most recent bill.

He and his wife Lisa had been trying to cancel their cable subscription with the company, which should have been a very simple process.

But it was not.

They first reported the issue to consumer advocate Christopher Elliott, who wrote:

Instead of complying immediately, a representative escalated her call to a retention specialist, who tried to persuade her to keep the cable service and sign a new two-year contract.

His wife said she was not being rude, but the Comcast customer service agent decided to get back at them for not taking the offer in the most passive aggressive and childish way possible.

Elliot spoke with a Comcast rep who eventually apologized.

“We have spoken with our customer and apologized for this completely unacceptable and inappropriate name change,” he said. “We have zero tolerance for this type of disrespectful behavior and are conducting a thorough investigation to determine what happened. We are working with our customer to make this right and will take appropriate steps to prevent this from happening again.”

The company also promised to fire the employee responsible and has offered to both waive the $60 cable cancellation fee (how generous) and provide a refund of their two years of cable service.

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Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to US Highway 61 near Sperry in Des Moines County, Iowa, responding to a possible jumper.

But Sheriff Mike Johnstone said his deputies soon realised it was a mannequin on top of the sign.

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After a impressively terrible 2014, Don Lemon starts off the year right by hopping in CNN’s specially-equipped “Blizzardmobile” and reporting from the streets of New York. The one problem of course being that New York City’s snow estimates were way off and nearly all of it is gone as of Tuesday morning.

Viewers noted that the Blizzardmobile was routinely passed by such anti-winter assault vehicles as the Toyota Prius and by all appearances was just a regular van. If only this had happened instead:

Twist: Don Lemon’s Blizzardmobile rounds a corner and discovers, on an empty Manhattan street, the missing plane.

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Because the Double Down burger (you know, the one with bacon and cheese sandwiched between two pieces of chicken) wasn’t enough for us, KFC is now testing a similar concoction with a hot dog and chicken “bun.” That substance on the top? Could be mustard, could be cheese, could be the liquefied excretion from a fallen dark god, who knows! Makes you hungry though, huh?

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Two men arrested in Houston are accused of stealing an iPad and using it to take selfies that they unknowingly uploaded to the owner’s iCloud account.

The men appeared in the photos displaying money they are also accused of taking from the victim.

Investigators arrested the pair on theft charges late Wednesday.

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The North Carolina Highway Patrol says a tractor-trailer driver hauling a load of Ramen noodles nodded off at the wheel and crashed, causing a mess along southbound I-95 near Rocky Mount Wednesday morning.

“I thought I could make it down to the truck stops in Kenly, and I didn’t quite make it. I kind of drowsed off, and next thing I knew I had taken out the guard rail,” driver Larry Scholting told ABC11.

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Thinker

Wasn’t sure if I should post this here or under the “Guns & Drugs Prop up GDP” thread. Then I decided it’s more of a “Fail” than anything, given that it’s the NYPD.

NYPD Plans To Equip New ‘Anti-Terror’ Unit With Rifles And Machine Guns
Published JANUARY 29, 2015, 5:28 PM EST

The New York City Police Department announced on Thursday it plans to introduce an anti-terror strike force armed with rifles and machine guns, television station WCBS reported.

The force will be “designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said, according to the television station.

Officers in the unit will “be equipped with all the extra heavy protective gear, with the long rifles and machine guns — unfortunately sometimes necessary in these instances,” Bratton added.

The NYPD will introduce the strike force in a pilot program in Manhattan and Queens, Capital New York reported.

NYPD Plans To Equip New ‘Anti-Terror’ Unit With Rifles And Machine Guns

yahsure
yahsure

Thinker,I imagine that when SHTF,The cops will stay home and all those unarmed New Yorkers.
Well the ones who didn’t break the law and get a gun.Will have to deal with all the armed to the teeth criminals. The guard will eventually show up.
That’s some good fail stuff!

Leobeer
Leobeer

Asian drivers suck. No. Really….Asian drivers SUCK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PqDdLPeJo

bb

Leobeer , are you going to show some hospitality and invite me to Thailand?If.not then what is it you want?.Pls don’t say ….to be left alone….

Let me be clear
Let me be clear
Leobeer
Leobeer

bb, I say this seriously.

Do some research, if you really want to come here know what it is that you want to see and do. Once you know I would be happy to help you.

Should you get this far I would sit down with you and we would drink a few of these.comment image

Thinker

@ Leobeer — having lived in Asia, I concur.

Interesting stats: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-road-traffic-accidents-report

Chicago999444
Chicago999444

You don’t have to be Asian to be crazy enough to race trains. I don’t know what it is about trains that gets some folks so excited, but they seem to regard flashing lights and lowering gates as a challenge. No matter how many lights and cameras METRA mounts on the front end of the train to photograph scofflaws, and no matter how many $500 tickets they issue, these people just HAVE to race the things at crossings, full well knowing what the punishment for bad timing is.

While I can see why people get upset at being delayed by some slow moving freight with a train consist that stretches from one state line to the next and ties up the crossing for 30 minutes, I can’t see for the life of me why anyone tries to race a METRA commuter train moving 60-70 mph, and that has come and gone in the time it takes you to rant about the delay.

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