Have You Ever Made A Crank Telephone Call?

I used to make them all the time with my friend Diane, usually to pass some time during the six week Summer holidays.

Our favourite was to ring up a random number and ask for Mr Wall like this:

Me: Can I speak to Mr Wall please
Random Number: You have the wrong number
Me: Well, what about Mrs Wall?
Random Number: There are no Walls here
Me: Well what the bloody hell is holding your roof up then?!!

Absolutely hilarious I'm sure you'll agree. Obviously 99 times out of a 100 the person who answered the phone wouldn't say "there are no Walls here", but when they did we used to wet ourselves.

What about you, ever made a crank/hoax call?

"Im calling about your wooden ladders in the loot, talk to me, go on sell 'em to me," - Terry Tibbs

Yeah i got this woman to hum Happy Birthday by Altered Images.

Angry Dad wrote:Yeah i got this woman to hum Happy Birthday by Altered Images.

How?

I used to do the Mr Wall call too. I also used to phone 100 for the operator, abuse them and then hang up. That is until I did it one day and picked the phone up again and the operator was still there. I kept hanging up and even unplugged the phone and plugged it back in but couldn't get her off the line. Eventually she bollocked me, made me say sorry to her and warned me I'd be reported to the police if I did it again .

Bernard Dennis Park wrote:Eventually she bollocked me, made me say sorry to her and warned me I'd be reported to the police if I did it again .

Several yeas go when fatty Allardyce was manager of Bolton a friend gave me, what he claimed, was Allardyce's home telephone number.

Every night for a week I screamed abuse down the phone at who I thought was Allardyce. Turns out it was just some random guy who thought I was going to kill him. Or so the polcie told me.

Yeah i remember one time we called a teachers house reverse call.

and when they said "whats the name" we panicked and said "eggy"

Suffice to say he took the call and about 4 of us were suspended within 48 hours.

I wasn't one of them thank god.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:Yeah i remember one time we called a teachers house reverse call.

and when they said "whats the name" we panicked and said "eggy"

Suffice to say he took the call and about 4 of us were suspended within 48 hours.

I wasn't one of them thank god.

How did the teacher know who it was?

To this day i have no idea.

but the next day about 6 of us were pulled into "individual interviews"

one of us must have grassed. (wasn't me) I denied i was there.

So 6 of you were pulled in and 4 ended up suspended, but not you?

I think you grassed them up, and I bet they do too. Did you find yourself being shunned after this incident? Is this why the people of Coventry don't like you?

I didn't but you can pretend i did if you like.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:I didn't but you can pretend i did if you like.

Maybe you didn't but if this story is true they must have thought you grassed them up, seeing as you didn't get suspended.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Angry Dad wrote:Yeah i got this woman to hum Happy Birthday by Altered Images.

How?

By pretending to be from the phone company faults dept and to check her line i needed to hear a humming noise which she did,then i said i needed different pitches can you hum your fav song i got that one.Whoever she was she was very dumb and bloody sexy.

It's true, I'm not in the business of making up bollocks on a forum.

and no, i didn't fall under any suspicion.

Angry Dad wrote:
By pretending to be from the phone company faults dept and to check her line i needed to hear a humming noise which she did,then i said i needed different pitches can you hum your fav song i got that one.Whoever she was she was very dumb and bloody sexy.

Have you been watching Frasier this week? Sounds suspiciously like a plot from a certain episode.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Angry Dad wrote:
By pretending to be from the phone company faults dept and to check her line i needed to hear a humming noise which she did,then i said i needed different pitches can you hum your fav song i got that one.Whoever she was she was very dumb and bloody sexy.

Have you been watching Frasier this week? Sounds suspiciously like a plot from a certain episode.

Never watch frasier dont like it, but its an old trick only women fall for it nat, like the mike hunt one to the pub barmaid actually worked when i did it her name was helen a simple country girl, i told her mike hunts wife had gone into labour and she went from bar to bar asking has anyone seen mike hunt priceless.

Have done the funeral directors to collect bodies as well.

I don't think any of us can honestly say, hand on heart, that we haven't at some time or other made a call to Chester Zoo and asked for Mr G. Raffe.

On the radio the other day they had a text in about the Olympics getting people to text in what they are good at and could represent the country in. The presenter read this one out from a Dan Gleballs and how he was brilliant at juggling, the presenter didnt clock on either.