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Dad gets $2,700 mobile bill for son's love talk
Monday June 18, 2012 06:39:48 PM,
IANS
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London: An elderly father in Britain had the shock
of his life when his 12-year-old son's love talk with a girlfriend
cost him a whopping 1,700 pounds (over $2,660 or about Rs.150,000)
in a month.
Oscar Rushen used to call up his 13-year-old girlfriend using his
father's cellphone.
Dennis Rushen, 65, a divorcee father, accused the telephone firm
of being greedy, saying it should have intervened when the 10.50
pounds-a-month contract suddenly went up to hundreds of pounds a
week, Daily Mail reported.
"When I saw this massive bill, I thought there must be a mistake.
It turned out there were sometimes several calls a day and they
would last more than two hours," he said.
His son struck up the relationship at the start of March after
meeting the girl at a youth club near his mother's home in Norfolk
county. Unable to meet regularly because of long distance between
their homes, the two preferred romancing over the phone.
The boy only discovered the price of their love after being a
month into the relationship. He has now restricted himself to
chatting through facebook only while the father is fighting the
telephone firm over the bill.
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