Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print ADVERTISEMENT There may be little more universally annoying than the unexpected phone call, cloaked in the familiar area code and exchange, that comes as one is reclining with a book, laying the supper table, or working at the office. Yet, come it does, always at an inopportune time. Often, we take the call, no matter the inconvenience, because we’re just not certain it isn’t important. And it almost never is. It seems almost always to be an aggravating robocall, the handiwork of tricky telemarketers and survey-takers who have finessed a system for making the incoming call appear to be local. There’s even a name for the tactic: “neighborhood spoofing.” Most of us respond with a quick hangup and a resolve to send the next unknown caller to voicemail. Read more Blade editorials A different course is being charted by a 21-year-old college student from Pennsylvania who is evolving as something as a professional plaintiff. Andrew Perrong of Huntingdon, Pa., who studies philosophy and psychology at Catholic University of America and who intends to be a Ukrainian Catholic priest, has filed dozens of lawsuits against companies large and small. And he’s won, securing settlements again and again, according to court records. Mr. Perrong has remained mum on his enterprise, declining requests for interviews because of confidentiality agreements and other pending litigation. But his efforts have been documented in the public domain of the courtroom. While it is true that some may be inclined to bemoan… [Read full story]
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