Man arrested for calling phone company 24,000 times to complain about it

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Akitoshi Okamoto, 71, could face charges of obstruction of business for calling KDDI's customer service line thousands of times because his phone could not pick up radio broadcasts.

reports that police have arrested a 71-year-old man in Saitama for calling his cellphone company's customer service line roughly 24,000 times with a variety of questions and complaints.

According to the company, Okamoto was upset that his telephone was not able to pick up radio broadcasts and called multiple times to vent his frustrations. The police investigation is still ongoing, but they say that according to KDDI's access logs Okamoto has called them tens of thousands of times since becoming a customer of the company. In an interview, the senior citizen told police that he was the victim in this situation.

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Maybe he has dementia and honestly doesn't remember he's called repeatedly.

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