Things like this are why I don't have a land line anymore. Via ARLnow, we learn that a number Arlington residents are complaining about incessant, middle-of-the-night phone calls from a mysterious telephone number with a Wyoming area code. As Tamar Abrams described the calls in the Huffington Post:

I've cajoled, pleaded, badgered but all I get is silence on the other end until, after about six seconds, we are disconnected. I've tried calling back but get a recording that says the number is out of service. At 3:30 in the morning, awakened from a deep sleep here in Northern Virginia, I imagined all manner of activities taking place across the country in Wyoming. But mostly I felt relief that the calls weren't from a more familiar area code where friends and family reside. I know no one in Wyoming and yet, the phone keeps ringing.

The Examiner reports this morning that over 60,000 residential Verizon customers in D.C. are getting anywhere from 20 cents to $2 refunded to them this month due to a widespread billing error that occurred in May. Turns out Verizon started billing for a rate increase for landlines a full month before the increase had been approved by the D.C. Public Service Commission. A total of 60,543 residential customers were overcharged to the tune of $66,173. more ›