I&#x27;ve grown increasingly leery of any story that relies on the anecdotes of three or four people&#x2F;couples. I thought they&#x27;d died out in recent years because of how easily journalists could abuse the format.<p>This story relies on the anecdotes of one couple. Who apparently got convicted of taking down the county&#x27;s phone lines. If they&#x27;re real, they&#x27;re very much an extreme.<p>Rather than reinforcing the narrative his entire story relies on them and I now distrust everything else he&#x27;s said.