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A mobile phone company has suspended the number 0888 888 888 – after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.) ~: G% O: K' K
保加利亚某移动通讯公司最近终止了号码0888 888 888的使用,因为在过去十年中使用它的三名用户相继死亡。
- F1 @/ F ?* Z/ @ 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.! @% [1 G( l3 o. ^$ R6 |. u
第一位用户是Vladimir Grashnov——他签下这个号码时任保加利亚手机公司Mobitel的CEO——他于2001年48岁时死于癌症。
- E5 {0 K* z X Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning. : N2 j* T2 K0 ]* @
他在生意场上表现完美,也有传闻说他的癌症是因为竞争对手给他放射性的毒药所致。5 W1 U* m/ E9 I7 r8 Z
The number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss, Konstantin Dimitrov, who was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500 million drug smuggling empire.1 P; t+ A) j2 V
这个号码之后被保加利亚黑手党领袖Konstantin Dimitrov使用。2003年,当他到荷兰检查自己5亿英镑的毒品走私生意时被不知名的杀手开枪打死。. o* U6 W4 `, p$ k
Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a model.9 K! Y2 L9 }) n. x) Y1 r
他当时只有31岁,中枪时正带着他的手机,和模特吃饭。5 ^" m6 A# b) J8 I+ N' f
Russian mafia bosses – jealous of his drug smuggling operation – were said to have been behind the killing.
$ `, `; [, e) d- C2 ?( W5 c$ i5 _ 据称,是觊觎他毒品生意的俄罗斯黑手党头目策划了这次暗杀。
: S" f: e2 d5 |% _( \" d The phone number then passed to Konstantin Dishliev, a crooked businessman, who was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia after taking over the jinxed line.( h% J+ q: H. ]+ D6 b
跟着这个手机号又到了Konstantin Dishliev手里。他是个不法商人。在保加利亚首都索菲亚的一家印度餐馆外中枪,延续了这个诅咒链。# C& j& u( K2 s- j
Dishliev, an estate agent, had secretly been running a massive cocaine trafficking operation before his assassination in 2005.
* w- K) h$ \8 @* n' C% K 在他05年中枪之前,作为地产代理的他曾秘密地进行大宗可卡因交易。/ T) g& u: z8 F( x9 e7 U& z% F
He died after £130 million of the drug was intercepted by police on its way into the country from Colombia.
9 p0 K. z3 W+ J! X; E } 他死前,警方截获了他从哥伦比亚运往保加利亚的1.3亿英镑毒品。5 Z% e' _" p# L7 ~. F) Z
Since then, the number is understood to have been dormant while police maintained an open file on Dishliev's killing and his smuggling ring.
7 A9 t* b" c8 ?( @" D) |9 `' v 自此,这个号码就停用了。警方为Dishliev的死和他的不法交易圈保留了公开记录。7 n9 b1 W7 n( }# J
Now phone bosses are said to have suspended the number for good. Callers now get a recorded message saying the phone is "outside network coverage."
* d. Y3 r K2 U/ `& i k 现在这个号码已经永久性地停用。如果打它,会得到“用户不在服务区”的提示。/ d- X$ a+ q% o& B# o3 ^
A Mobitel spokesman would only say: "We have no comment to make. We won't discuss individual numbers."
0 N" H" y7 K! |" j4 [" J) s 该通讯公司的发言人只是说:“我们对此不做评论。我们不会谈论私人的号码。” |
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