jlt080405
May 27th, 2008, 05:18 PM
I am guessing it is a good thing this man has not heard IMP's voice on podcast! :)
A man obsessed with a recorded female voice has been arrested after spending more than 3,000hours on a freephone telephone number.
The Man loved to hear the woman's voiceHiroyuki Nomoto, from Tokyo in Japan, called the number around 500 times so he could hear the woman's dulcet tones on a taped message.
The 38-year-old plumber was arrested on suspicion of obstructing the business of the company at the other end of the line, a food firm based in Takasaki, north of the capital.
"The company has the number for 24-hour order-taking with a female voice," a police spokesman said.
"He said he wanted to hear a woman's voice.
"The company paid the call charges, which amounted to £18,595 for the call time of 3,100 hours."
Japanese police are used to dealing with people obsessed with female voices.
A 37-year-old man was arrested in January after placing at least 2,600 calls to directory enquiries over several months.
Telephone operators - who in Japan are almost always women - reportedly nicknamed him the "don't-hang-up-man".
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1317147,00.html
A man obsessed with a recorded female voice has been arrested after spending more than 3,000hours on a freephone telephone number.
The Man loved to hear the woman's voiceHiroyuki Nomoto, from Tokyo in Japan, called the number around 500 times so he could hear the woman's dulcet tones on a taped message.
The 38-year-old plumber was arrested on suspicion of obstructing the business of the company at the other end of the line, a food firm based in Takasaki, north of the capital.
"The company has the number for 24-hour order-taking with a female voice," a police spokesman said.
"He said he wanted to hear a woman's voice.
"The company paid the call charges, which amounted to £18,595 for the call time of 3,100 hours."
Japanese police are used to dealing with people obsessed with female voices.
A 37-year-old man was arrested in January after placing at least 2,600 calls to directory enquiries over several months.
Telephone operators - who in Japan are almost always women - reportedly nicknamed him the "don't-hang-up-man".
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1317147,00.html