[K1NGWARREN]

Manatee Number Leads to Sex Chat Line



Concerned citizens calling a publicized toll-free number to report injured and dead manatees or boating violations have instead been given offers to chat with "fantasy girls" in exchange for a credit card number.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission number changed years ago, but the old 800 number is still posted on Web sites, boater education signs, and park brochures around the state, leading to confusion for callers.

Starting last month, callers trying to report an injured manatee using the 800 number were referred to another 800 number, which turned out to be a sex-talk line called Intimate Encounters.

Being hooked up to a sex line "only adds to the levels of frustration felt by our field staff and FWC dispatchers, it's making us look really bad to the public," Elsa Haubold, in charge of the marine institute's manatee program, wrote in an e-mail to agency officials.


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Making you look bad to the public? Are you kidding? That was the most fun I've had reporting a mutilated sea mammal in years!

[Heccubus]

*doink!*

[looktothesky]

If its making them look bad to the public, then why is the porno business a multi-billion dollar industry?

[Ninja Duck]

I bet it really keeps down the complaints they would otherwise get about their department.

[sinister grinner]

i think the manatee people should have a second number that is a sex line, but the credit card money is wired to them.
im sure they would makes lots of moneys then.

(once again s's intentional.)

[Heccubus]

Oh Jenn, you have to understand that no matter how many times a guy says he doesn't like porno, he probably has like...tons of it on his computer/under his bed. Any guy who complains about an excess of porn is lying through his teeth.

[Despondent]

My job is to put together a catalog for a hardware supplier, and last week I came very close to making a dire mistake. we're having post-it notes stuck onto this issue's pull-out insert and, well it's a darn good thing I called the number to double-check. (ps, yet quite similar, our number is NOT 1-888-277-8888.)

[A Mighty Pirate]

i think the manatee people should have a second number that is a sex line, but the credit card money is wired to them.
im sure they would makes lots of moneys then.

(once again s's intentional.)

How about you just say 'monies', so we know you're serious about putting the s' there?