888 ... not so lucky after all....

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    888 ... not so lucky after all....

    Taken from Jinxed phone number 0888 888 888 suspended after EVERY user dies | Mail Online

    Spooked phone bosses have suspended the mobile phone number 0888 888 888 - after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.

    The first owner, Vladimir Grashnov - the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel, which issued the number - died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.

    Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.

    The jinxed number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss Konstantin Dimitrov.

    He was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500million drug-smuggling empire.

    Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a beautiful model.
    List goes on ....

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    yeah, but everyone dies eventually...

    the day you are born is the day you begin to die. (i know, what an uplifting thought!)


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    But surely the life expectancy of a Bulgarian mafia boss isn't going to be a long one.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Claire ex-ax:
    But surely the life expectancy of a Bulgarian mafia boss isn't going to be a long one.
    Well any Bulgarian to be honest.

    Well apart from Great Uncle Bulgaria

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    Of course, "8" is only lucky in the Chinese universe. If you aren't Chinese, it has no effect. That's how it works. Maybe the Bulgarians should have chosen a number with more "7"s.

    By the way, why is everyone with a mobile phone in Bulgaria a mobster?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Freetrader:
    By the way, why is everyone with a mobile phone in Bulgaria a mobster?
    I worked at a (very well respected) language school in Sofia and we had one of those walk through metal detectors, like at airports, on the entrance to the building and 'no guns allowed' signs...not that I'm saying Bulgaria's full of mobsters or anything...