Created: 11/30/2009 5:39:34 PM 
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Joyce Outlaw is used to taking lots of calls at Dr. Robert Thousand's endodontics office. But these days, enough is enough.
"There it goes again," Outlaw said from Thousand's office as the phone trilled. "So far, we've had 433 calls since 9:30 this morning."
Thousand has built his practice in the same office now for 10 years. But he said he has never gotten calls like this.
"I think you get charged every time your cell phone rings. I get four to five hundred of these a day so I've contacted AT&T. Who knows what my bill will be...thousands, I'm sure," he said.
And every call has the exact same risque message from a prerecorded sex-line.
"It's the same recording every time. It's a homemade recording that someone has downloaded on a computer and is dialing it through a computer on the automatic dial."
The St. Johns Sheriff's Office is investigating and has subpoenaed his phone records, but so far officials have not been able to track down the source.
"It's cyberterrorism...you know, somebody terrorizes you, (does) this to your business. It's shutting me down," Thousand said.
He said changing his number is just not possible, adding that it likely is too late to get a new number in next year's phone books.
"All contacts in the last 10 years have this same number," he said. "We are the emergency room for all our referrals from 50 miles and they depend on us to take care of them and they can't get through."
For now, he said, the plan is to turn off the ringers and watch the caller ID.
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