Tornado Victim Billed for Cable Devices–headline, AP, January 31, 2008
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Thu Jan 31, 5:24 PM ET
Associated Press
Having a tornado demolish her home was bad enough. But when Ann Beam received a $2,000 cable bill a few weeks later, she was floored. “I just couldn’t believe it,” Beam said. “I was like, ‘What are they thinking?’”
Time Warner Cable billed a number of Wheatland residents for equipment destroyed in the Jan. 7 twister that struck the southeast corner of the state. Beam’s bill covered five cable boxes and five remote controls.
She immediately called the cable company, but a man who identified himself as a manager said there was nothing the company could do.
“They said I would have to take the bill and turn it in to my insurance company,” Beam said.
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