Student recieves Paris Hilton's recycled number, along with a lot of late night calls
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Jul 8th 2007 8:52AM
posted Jul 8th 2007 8:52AM
Getting calls at 3AM almost every night thanks to bad luck and a recycled number may be most people's idea of hell, but when the inherited number is Paris Hilton's there's a certain element of hilarity added to the mix-up. Due to standard 6 month cellphone number recycling, college student Shira Barlow started receiving calls meant for the former jailbird: primarily from callers that are clueless to being dumped by the socialite, along with the usual rabble of adoring fans and bitter haters. The reason anyone knows about this is because the LA Times happened to call the number, getting through to Shira who explained the story of how she got Paris' number. Poor Paris, she seems to have nothing but trouble with phones.
6-month rule doesn't apply in areas where they need phone #s badly, so it could have been even two weeks before she got the number.
That's about the only explanation I can think of for people not realizing what a "This number is no longer in service" message means.
It is relevant because it is about technology affects our lives.
its SUNDAY afterall... how much bleeding edge tech news do you need on a SUNDAY.
Recycled numbers can cause big problems sometimes. I assigned a verizon phone to my office manager. The people who had the number before her either gave it to their kids to play with or they found it. They made over 4 dozen 911 calls in 2 weeks. Finally after arguing with the dispatchers for over a week, I got the Sheriff to get a court order to force Verizon to disclose the name of the person who had the number before us.