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By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 2) -- A fed-up Texas man has turned the tables on a collections agency. Advanced Call Center Technologies, usually in the business of collecting money for its clients, now finds itself $1.5 million in debt to Allen Jones. A Dallas County court awarded him the hefty judgment after a jury found the agency barraged Jones with harassing and racially charged phone calls. ACT debt collectors confessed to logging eight expletive-filled calls to Jones, of Lewisville, Texas, in August 2007, many peppered with the "n-word." Jones, 26, saved the vulgar voice mails as evidence. "This is your ...
Exporting Expletives: America's Contribution to Global Culture
By Elizabeth Lev - Politics DailyROME -- It started like a scene from an E.M. Forster novel. In a quiet Tuscan retreat, a handsome, well-dressed young man played piano in an exquisitely arranged drawing room. What he lacked in artistry, he made up for with gusto, and soon enough a weary British father asked him to curtail his musical efforts for the evening as there was a small child sleeping upstairs. The young man rose, shrugged his elegant shoulders and drawled in lightly Spanish-flavored English, "I don't f**king see why I f**king should, I f**king paid for this place same as you f**king did." Saucer-eyed, the father ...
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