Al Burrows says he got a phone call from a debt collector for Verizon threatening to blow up his house if he didn’t pay his $308 cell bill:
Al Burrows, 45, said Verizon had already given him 90 days to pay his bill when he received a call from another bill collector.
The second bill collector acknowledged the payment plan, Burrows said, but still pressed for immediate payment.
“I am gonna blow your m*****f****** house up,” the bill collector said, according to the lawsuit filed with New Mexico’s First Judicial District Court.
Burrows, who lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the time, acknowledged that he owed Verizon Wireless $308 on an account that he had opened on behalf of his stepson, but said he worked out a payment plan as soon as he found out about the debt.
Think the man’s lying? This is common.
Watch this report from ABC News and ask yourself if this still seems unlikely:
If you didn’t watch it, there’s a segment where a bill collector is recorded telling a woman, after she asks who he is, “I’m the guy that’s gonna end your life.”
