Tech support member held hostage over Internet connection

A Canadian actress appears to have taken matters into her own hands when she couldn’t connect to the Internet.

Carol Sinclair, an actress and playwright, has apparently been charged with holding a technical support member hostage when she lost her Internet connection, provided by Canadian ISP Aliant.

A technician was sent from the ISP a day after she reported the problem.  Sinclair said: “when they arrived I said ‘I’m not going to be very polite, because I’m absolutely fed up with Aliant.”

The technician, 21-year old David Arthur Scott, arrived to fix the Internet connection, and determined the problem was with the computer.  Sinclair is then said to have told the man that he couldn’t leave until he got the Internet working.

According to local police, the technician told Sinclair he needed a disc from his truck that could repair her Internet, and Sinclair said she was going with him so he wouldn’t run off.  The technician then got in his truck and drove back to the Aliant office.

Sinclair claimed she followed him to prop the door open so he could get back into the building.

Local police Constable Jeff Carr said: “She told the technician, in a tirade, that he was not leaving until her internet was working and she told him she was keeping him hostage, she implied that she had a gun, although he didn’t see one.”

Police said that when they arrived, they arrested an “extremely intoxicated woman” without incident.  Sinclair claims she only drank about a third of a bottle of a vodka cooler before they arrived.