They'd pick up the phone line and yell at prank callers. They'd show up at schools and tell some kids to back off.

过去，父亲能够对付骚扰她女儿的那些家伙，他们会拿起电话叫那些打电话来恶作剧的人小心点，他们会出现在学校让那些家伙离他们女儿远点。

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Over 15 months, she flooded the city's 911 emergency line with more than 10,000 prank calls in a dialing marathon that sometimes blocked legitimate callers.

在过去的15个月内，她向蒙特利尔市911紧急救助专线进行了马拉松式拨打，拨打次数超过10000次，不时还阻断了合法的求助者。

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Canada's Rogers Wireless has made the lives of prank callers and shy or paranoid individuals a bit harder (and the rest of ours a bit more convenient) with the launch of Name Display, a new service that'll show a caller's name even if it's not stored in the phone's memory.

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