Ever get so frustrated with your cell phone service that…
Palestinian gunmen stormed the headquarters of mobile company Jawwal in Gaza on Tuesday in protest at having their phones cut off in a sign of growing lawlessness in the coastal strip, employees said.
They said around 20 gunmen entered the building saying their cellphone memory cards were not working. A short while later they began shooting, damaging over 10 computers but causing no casualties.
Jawwal, is the mobile subsidiary of Palestinian telecoms firm PalTel, which operates in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Yeah, that’ll get your problems fixed. Shoot up the place. Smash the equipment necessary to fix your problem. Threaten the staff with bodily harm and death.
Of course, the cell phone company isn’t taking things sitting down:
Employees said the firm’s managers were mulling whether to cut services in Gaza on Wednesday in protest at the attack. The building is close to a complex which houses a number of Palestinian security services.
But… but… but… isn’t that a disproportional response? Isn’t that acting unilaterally? Isn’t that infringing on the free speech of peace-loving Gazans?
… I’m sorry, but that number is no longer in service… please hang up and try again…
Sheesh, Lair - I was just going to post my own piece about the same subject. Well, I shall at least link it here. My take is just a tad different ;-)
Comment by SnoopyTheGoon — 05/16/2006 @ 4:39 pm
Eat lead…
At Meryl Yourish, Laurence Simon notes a new way to complain about poor cellular service They said around 20 gunmen entered the building saying their cellphone memory cards were not working. A short while later they began shooting, damaging over……
Trackback by Soccer Dad — 05/17/2006 @ 1:48 am
… I’m sorry, but that number is no longer in service… please hang up and blame Israel…”
Comment by Li'l Mamzer — 05/17/2006 @ 6:17 am
I hear the Mossad makes a very fine model of mobile telephone. Perhaps the gunmen would like one of those instead of the PalTel model?
The “message indicator” is unusually direct.
Comment by Jack — 05/17/2006 @ 1:28 pm
Sheesh, this wouldn’t have happened to Jawwal if they’d outsourced to India like everyone else….
Comment by ScottG — 05/29/2006 @ 3:56 pm
Vigorously protest…
A month ago a Baltimore Sun editorial wrote (I’d link to it, but the link has expired. The Sun isn’t as generous with its RSS feeds as the NY Times is.) But support for terrorism and the destruction of Israel……
Trackback by Soccer Dad — 06/07/2006 @ 3:14 am