US teen clocks up 14,528 text messages in one month

Published by You on 13 January, 2009 - 20:10

US teen clocks up 14,528 text messages

Greg Hardesty of the Orange County Register has described himself as "speechless" after his 13-year-old daughter "racked up 14,528 text messages in one month", as the shaken dad himself put it last week.

Hardesty, 45, explains that offspring Reina achieved the impressive SMS tally between 27 November and 26 December. Her 22-year-old sister Hana managed a "comparatively modest" total of 7,101 messages, while sibling Marina, 24, trailed with just 700.

While the paper bill for all three phones dispatched to the girls' mother stretched to just 23 pages, the online PDF version extended to 440 pages. Luckily, all three are signed up for unlimited texts, otherwise Reina alone would be looking at a bill of $2,905.60 - a "lot of chores", Hardesty notes.

Hardesty called AT&T Mobility to see if it kept records of outstanding texting efforts. The company's Katie Keating said no, and while "trying not to laugh", described Reina's marathon total as "a bit high"...

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Submitted by Sky_Avenger (not verified) on 13 January, 2009 - 21:12

ouah!!!!

if a text cost 5p then she must have spend hum...14000*0.05=700 quids!!!(sorry cant remember the exact figure and cant be bothered to go back)

i cant beat that, i only get 5 pounds a month=500/0.05=50 000/5=10 000 right? so icant onyl send 10 000 text... interesting, i hate talking on the phone, my parents shouldnt se that or ill get 5 pounds for 2 months Lol

Submitted by You on 13 January, 2009 - 21:32

£5 gets you 100 at 5p a text, not 10,000.

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Submitted by BDB (not verified) on 13 January, 2009 - 23:23

are they deaf . . ?,

Submitted by Omrow on 14 January, 2009 - 13:27

I just want to know the unlucky guy was.

What a nagging girl that prampusher got.

Submitted by The Lamp on 14 January, 2009 - 14:24

I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case, even if he was a New Man.

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Submitted by LookingToSee on 14 January, 2009 - 20:50

argh!! im soo useless at maths! XD

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Submitted by RI_RS on 15 January, 2009 - 00:02

You wrote:
£5 gets you 100 at 5p a text, not 10,000.

LMFAO.

I do wish o2 thought the same way as them though Blum 3

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