Strange News - AP
Consumer Help Number Is Sex Hotline
Sat Sep 21,11:35 AM ET
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Alice Morrison was looking for a better way to seal her pickles. What she heard made her want to seal her ears.
The 71-year-old Sunday school teacher was unhappy with the canning lids on her sweet pickle jars. So she reached for her box of Kerr mason lids and called the consumer help number printed on the side.
Instead of advice for her lids, she was greeted by a recorded, raspy voice that she was about to hear "sexy introductions from callers" and that for $1.99 a minute she could "join the fun."
"I assure you, I wasn't looking for any hotline," Morrison said.
It isn't the first time people seeking information about canning have discovered themselves hooked up to a phone sex line.
Officials with the company that makes the lids have fielded plenty of confused and sometimes angry calls from across the country, said Judy Harrold, manager of consumer affairs for Alltrista Consumer Products Co.
Harrold said that about a year and a half ago, Alltrista decided to consolidate two canning companies, Ball and Kerr, under one helpline. Kerr's old 800 number was returned to the phone company, she said, and the phone company assigned it to a phone sex company.
"We attempted all we could to get that number back," Harrold said. "But once it was released, there was nothing we could do."
Kerr's new packaging is printed with the consolidated 800 number. Morrison wasn't sure she would try the other number.
"I might just put everything in the refrigerator and eat it now rather than messing with another number," she said.
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