PA Man Breaks Text Messaging Record, Gets $26,000 Phone Bill

PA Man Breaks Text Messaging Record, Gets $26,000 Phone Bill (Yes, It’s A White Guy)

SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, Pa. - Does unlimited text messaging really mean consumers can send as many texts as they want?

That’s what two friends from the Susquehanna Valley decided to find out.

At the office, in the car, even walking down the street, Nick Andes and Doug Klinger are constantly texting. They both have unlimited plans.
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“Basically because of us being bored at work and just texting back and forth a bunch of times and we would try to bother each other,” said Andes.

Since they were already sending so many messages they decided to see what the standing record was for sent and received texts. They looked it up online.

In May 2005, Deepak Sharma, a man from India, logged 182,689 text messages.

“I think initially neither of us thought that the record was beatable; 182,000 texts is a lot of texts,” said Andes.

Men Spent March Texting

But Andes and Klinger still wanted to give it a try. So, they spent all of March messaging.

“With my phone I can set up 45 messages to go out at one time,” said Klinger. (via)

When it comes to text messaging that many times it’s a chick thing. When it comes to breaking records that’s a guy thing. So, maybe this is an effeminate guy?

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