Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for January 17, 2025

It’s too hard finding newspapers and magazines.

“Save trees and your daughter at the same time!”

KidnApp.

Can’t beat agate rock without paper.

“Rock, scissors, electronic device” won’t be popular.

The web address should be helpful to law enforcement agencies.

Paperless just an excuse to turn your bank or credit card into a fountain of money. I resist!

Now this was clever.

And painfully timely. Support independent journalism, and pay for your comic subscriptions so the artists can continue their valuable work!

I made a note like that once. it was a pain in the butt finding the words you need or making them from letters and parts of other words.

Made me chuckle.

Looks like something a Gen X “marketing” department would think was clever.

And when it comes to customer service, many companies are going peopleless. I find it particularly ironic that it’s almost impossible to call the phone company.

They ransom numbers and decided this was cheaper.

Whata ya wanna bet he goes to the site. Stupid is as stupid does, the secret to why fraud so frequently works ! ;-) Happy Weekend Folks !

Must be from the bank.

Reminds me of when U.S. Cellular was trying to get me to trade in my old 3G phone, as more and more towers were converted to 4 & 5G…I guess. They literally sent me more and more “threatening” letters, demanding that I upgrade, warning me of loss of services, 911 service, etc. But I really liked my little Android phone and didn’t want to part with it. After about 2 years, I finally relented, but only because by then I actually was losing more and more service and didn’t want to end up stranded somewhere without the ability to call for help. That was late summer of 2023 and I absolutely hate my new phone and all the needless garbage that comes with it. It’s so big and heavy and doesn’t so easily fit in my pocket the way my old phone did. Maybe it’s time for one of them thar little Crickets or Jitterbugs or whatever sort of phone they have for old fogies like me who mostly just uses a phone to CALL and, yes, I do even text quite a bit. Sigh, technology, me hates it more and more.

It’s a ransom note of sorts, and his hands are not gloved, the FBI database will most likely have his prints. Tracking where the notes originated may take time but they can be tracked. Is this a comic strip? Well darn it.