Redial for Rubbish

Wendy Angel

A phone book has left one Georgia man feeling very confused — and with piles of trash in his yard. Almost daily, Jerome Patrick of Gwinnett County finds tires, paint cans and building supplies in his yard — yet he doesn't own a dump. Thanks to a misprint in a Verizon phone book, Patrick's dump trucking and grading company is listed incorrectly under “dumps” in the yellow pages. Patrick says that he didn't ask to be included, and he and several others are suing the company. His situation could be worse though. One man's motorcycle funeral escort service is listed incorrectly in the phone book under “escort service, personal.”

Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution