Around this time of year, our thoughts turn to the best story of 2015. What have we heard and written about that makes the top grade? It is not every year we have a David Rivera and Ana Sol Aliegro mystery, to light up our readers' eyes.
Up to now, this year's leading candidate for Eye On Miami Story of the Year was Miami-Dade County Commissioner Pepe Diaz' recent arrest and videotape by Key West police. Diaz was captured for time eternal on his motorcycle wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word, “CARTEL”.
It is so much more succinct than “Unreformable Majority”. Anyhow, we have a competitor.
South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard, FIU professor, leading advocate against new nuclear reactors at Turkey Point by FPL, and spokesperson on climate change, reports the following:
"On Oct 2 at 4:01 pm, I received a phone call from South Miami Commissioner Bob Welsh’s mobile phone. I recognized the phone number but I did not recognize the male caller’s voice. His accent was American and the connection was clear. The caller asked, "Did you leave this bag of cables on the table for me?" I replied, “Excuse me? I’m sorry who is this?” The caller abruptly hung up."
Mayor Stoddard used the recent call feature on his phone to call back Welsh's number. Welsh immediately answered.
"I asked Bob if he was with anybody,” Stoddard told this reporter, “Or if he had possession of his cell phone for the past few minutes and he said, yes, it was in his hand now, and he’d had it with him all day.”
Evidently, someone had gone to the trouble of hijacking Bob Welsh’s phone by cloning it and then mistakenly dialing Mayor Stoddard’s phone number.
Mayor Stoddard suggested that City Commissioner Welsh get a new cell phone.
This story and wise advice makes this, a real contender for Eye On Miami Story of the Year.
Up to now, this year's leading candidate for Eye On Miami Story of the Year was Miami-Dade County Commissioner Pepe Diaz' recent arrest and videotape by Key West police. Diaz was captured for time eternal on his motorcycle wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word, “CARTEL”.
It is so much more succinct than “Unreformable Majority”. Anyhow, we have a competitor.
South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard, FIU professor, leading advocate against new nuclear reactors at Turkey Point by FPL, and spokesperson on climate change, reports the following:
"On Oct 2 at 4:01 pm, I received a phone call from South Miami Commissioner Bob Welsh’s mobile phone. I recognized the phone number but I did not recognize the male caller’s voice. His accent was American and the connection was clear. The caller asked, "Did you leave this bag of cables on the table for me?" I replied, “Excuse me? I’m sorry who is this?” The caller abruptly hung up."
Mayor Stoddard used the recent call feature on his phone to call back Welsh's number. Welsh immediately answered.
"I asked Bob if he was with anybody,” Stoddard told this reporter, “Or if he had possession of his cell phone for the past few minutes and he said, yes, it was in his hand now, and he’d had it with him all day.”
Evidently, someone had gone to the trouble of hijacking Bob Welsh’s phone by cloning it and then mistakenly dialing Mayor Stoddard’s phone number.
Mayor Stoddard suggested that City Commissioner Welsh get a new cell phone.
This story and wise advice makes this, a real contender for Eye On Miami Story of the Year.
10 comments:
Me thinks this smells like the start of some elaborate ruse to establish some sort of explanation for some other investigation that might involve Sunshine Law issues and items before the commission.
Why else would this become a legal and media issue, rather than just calling the phone company to get it all squared away.
Or someone fucked up big time. But who? State investigators? FBI? FPL?
Sounds like Bob Welsh made the call. Where is the mystery?
This the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Just because it might be dumb does not mean it is not true.....
Listen to last night's(Oct 6) Commission meeting for more antics and lunacy!
Stoddard's minion/toady obsesses about an 8,000 sq.ft dollar store for Madison Sq..
At some point the audio went down so the people at home missed about 50 minutes of the meeting. This happens ALL TOO OFTEN. Taxpayers funding this service deserve better.
The vedetta against Stoddard is against our rules
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