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Public statement source · YT695
NOODLE BOY DIET CONTINUES
A dated, first-person, on-camera grievance against a named national corporation in which he states a service cut-off, business harm ("I can't take any business calls"), long customer tenure as an aggravating fact, and that the action was taken without warning ("out of the blue") and without fault on his part ("a phone that I didn't know was apparently stolen"). Those are the elements of a consumer complaint, stated in the register the dataset's tracked consumer matters are pleaded in. He names no intention to sue, no lawyer, no small claims court and no demand — the matter is described as already resolved by going into a store. It is recorded because this archive's value is in dating grievances, and this one is dated precisely. Possible case/dispute link: none identified — and Verizon greps to ZERO across all 23 CSVs in src/data/, checked case-insensitively. It is not in aliases.csv, not in lawsuits.csv's defendants or case_title, not in research_notes.csv, not in disputes.csv and not in litigation_timeline.csv. Per the contract this is recorded as unresolved, never as "untracked" — the surfaces searched are named here so a later pass knows exactly what was and was not checked. ⚠ Direction trap 1 also noted in advance: were a Verizon matter ever found, the direction here is a complaint by him against the carrier.
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apparently the guy that sold me the phone it was like reported stolen or something and Verizon actually shut down my entire like cell phone and wireless account which is really irritating because I can't take any business calls I can't use my GPS to drive around it's just I had to go to Verizon and have them reactivate my account completely ridiculous you know a customer with them for almost 10 years and they just shut down my account out of the blue because I put my SIM card in a phone that I didn't know was apparently stolen
A dated, first-person, on-camera grievance against a named national corporation in which he states a service cut-off, business harm ("I can't take any business calls"), long customer tenure as an aggravating fact, and that the action was taken without warning ("out of the blue") and without fault on his part ("a phone that I didn't know was apparently stolen"). Those are the elements of a consumer complaint, stated in the register the dataset's tracked consumer matters are pleaded in. He names no intention to sue, no lawyer, no small claims court and no demand — the matter is described as already resolved by going into a store. It is recorded because this archive's value is in dating grievances, and this one is dated precisely. Possible case/dispute link: none identified — and Verizon greps to ZERO across all 23 CSVs in src/data/, checked case-insensitively. It is not in aliases.csv, not in lawsuits.csv's defendants or case_title, not in research_notes.csv, not in disputes.csv and not in litigation_timeline.csv. Per the contract this is recorded as unresolved, never as "untracked" — the surfaces searched are named here so a later pass knows exactly what was and was not checked. ⚠ Direction trap 1 also noted in advance: were a Verizon matter ever found, the direction here is a complaint by him against the carrier.