“A man who racked up $1000 a day on phone sex calls has been bailed out by the telecommunications industry watchdog. The man complained to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman after receiving the massive bill for phone sex and other pay-per-minute calls. Claiming he was a depressive who was in the middle of a manic episode, the man said he had an ‘obsessive’ personality with no control of his actions at the time. ‘The complainant suffered from several medical conditions including depression and obsessive behaviour and it was claimed that the calls had been made during a manic episode,’ Ombudsman John Pinnock said in his annual report. After four days of repeatedly dialling expensive 190 numbers, the phone company became concerned at the high usage and barred the man from further access. But the bar was removed when the man called to say he was able to pay the bills. He then spent another six days on the phone for several hours, bringing his total bill to $10,000 over 11 days. The ombudsman found the phone provider was at fault for removing the bar and arranged for most of the man’s bill to be waived. ‘It was not reasonable for the provider to have lifted the bar when it had identified that an unusually high amount of charges had been accrued and when there had been no change of circumstances .Ý.Ý. to justify removal of the bar,’ the report said.” —News.com.au (Australia)

Man, did this guy get lucky! Talk about having your cake and eating it too! In the first place, it’s hard to imagine anyone racking up that kind of bill on phone sex. For a thousand dollars a day, you might just as well get the real thing — that kind of money can buy a very nice time with the local callgirls. In the second place, how can such a flimsy excuse as “obsessiveness” convince a judge to absolve the man of paying the bill? Look, it’s sex. Every man is obsessive about it. Probably most women are too. People do the craziest things for sex and its spiritual cousin, love. They climb the tallest mountain, swim the widest sea, and so on. But — and this is a big but — that doesn’t mean they’re nuts enough to pile up a phone bill the cost of a cheap new car. That’s not obsessive. That’s dumb.

Probably there is an unsaid, unspoken part to this story. Probably the judge had troubles with the phone company — after all, who hasn’t had troubles with the phone company? — and thought it was funny to stiff them with the bill.

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