It was a plea deal, the prosecution wanted to make sure they paid, and they wanted to make sure they didn't get life. Okay, two things on the funny. #1. This is hilarious. #2. The only thing I’ve heard that is in the same genre AND league is the furby service call. “I’m going to KILL you.†“Help! Help! My furby has a gun!†Now for the serious: I worked in telemarketing as well. I hated out bound with a passion. We were told specifically NOT to volunteer certain pieces of information, and to twist the truth. I transferred to inbound as quickly as I could, and when they laid off inbound and offered me a transfer to outbound, I declined. Now, one of the big things I’ve heard about telemarketers calling during dinner isn’t cool, but think about that. The majority of people who work during the day either eat, or start preparing dinner as soon as they get home from work. The rest have a latter dinner. How is the telemarketer supposed to know YOUR schedule so that they can avoid calling you at inconvenient times? Yes, telemarketers are people too. Telemarketing is generally as dishonest and annoying a way of marketing your product as exists. You take up people’s time and money in order to try to make money for your business… but most of the individual reps ARE young people who don’t know any better, or about the tort taxes they are imposing on others. You don’t see the costs like you would if you lost a ream of paper every year on faxed advertisements (which is why those add campaigns got nixed so well, so quickly), but they exist in the bandwidth and cabling taken up by those calls/e-mails that have to be paid for by your service provider. That cost is then sent on to the individual. Now, if I were a telemarketer that got THAT person on the phone, with my current level of knowledge I would ask for proof that the person was a police officer. If they could not provide it, I would say that I will talk to the first officer who arrives and provides proof that they are with the police. The threat of being arrested for obstructing a police investigation is bunk, as any given citizen has no legal obligation to cooperate with someone that cannot prove that they are a police officer.