But Their Tiny Yet Nimble Fingers Work So Well Dialing the Old Rotary Phones!

A company called Western Wats (say that five times fast) was hit with a fine of more than half a million dollars for employing nearly 1,500 underaged kids illegally, the largest fine against an American company for this kind of violation.

Was this company a sweatshop churning out the latest Kathie Lee Gifford couture collection? Some figurine manufacturer that needs small hands to put smaller heads onto smaller-than-the-hands-but-not-smaller-than-the-heads bodies?

Nope and nope. These kids were, in fact, cold-calling for market research. Which makes sense because when I think about gathering information from strangers over the phone, I think, yeah, let's get some 14-year-olds to do the job.

I don't know what a "Wat" is, but the company is based in Utah, so this was going to set up the obvious joke (and I like obvious jokes) about all the kids being from the same Mormon family, when a quick Google search led to a Politico article from '07 linking Mitt Romney to...wait for it...Western Wats.

So now I have to come up with a different yet equally witty observation. So...uh...When the cops came to arrest the owners, they learned it was just the Duggar family there on a factory tour!

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