Arrest warrant issued for Verizon Wireless
Yes, you read that correctly. An arrest warrant was issued for Verizon Wireless, the company, after its lawyers failed to show up at a payment review court date following one customer’s successful lawsuit over being double-billed. The Massachusetts judge issued an arrest warrant for contempt of court for failure to appear. The man who had sued was about to file a motion to seize Verizon’s property to recoup his expenses when finally Verizon pulled it together and paid him the money they owed.
Imagine if Verizon hadn’t paid up. Would police be sent over to Verizon’s Headquarters? Would they just start arresting random employees? Or would they go for the CEO or something? How exactly do you arrest a corporate entity? I kind of wish Verizon hadn’t paid up. There’d be nothing funnier than this man going into a Verizon building, with sheriff’s deputies accompanying him, and just picking and taking equipment equal to the debt they owed him over the lost lawsuit. Verizon has suffered a pretty large corporate embarrassment over this lawsuit, but imagine if the arrest warrant had actually been fulfilled.
