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these (http://www.johntedwards.com/2006/10/15/little-irish-girl-prank-calls/) are some pretty funny ones :D

never done any myself though.

edit: w00t! ah hava da OPee!1 lol.

oh, and had some malicious prank calls when i was at rpimary school. my parents got our number changed to ex directory after that.

You ever had a really strange prank call? Not just the standard refridgerator stuff. I had one last night. Someone on the phone claiming to be Ashley (the girl in the Johnny needs helpage thread) called me. It was overdramatic so I'm sure it's a prank. But I got a number, so I'm just gonna follow it to confirm my suspicions. Anyone else get something like that?

I once went on for 12 minutes with two characters to a husband and wife about a "tree violation" or something. I ended up saying it was a prank for some radio thing. I even recorded it, but accidentally deleted it. :( I'd love to get back into prank phone calls again.

none we don't do it

I once went on for 12 minutes with two characters to a husband and wife about a "tree violation" or something. I ended up saying it was a prank for some radio thing. I even recorded it, but accidentally deleted it. :( I'd love to get back into prank phone calls again.

Roflcopter! A tree violation! (Snickers)

"A really strange one? Like some of that off-the-wall shit that just leaves you standing there with the phone in hand, five minutes later going '....the fuck was that?'"

Nah, never.

telemarketer:

"Sign up with us today and eneter to win a brand new Harley"

me:

"How could I ride a Harley? I don't have any legs."

Prank Call: Jack Nicholson (Soundboard from 'A Few Good Men') (http://www.nearlygood.com/audio/afewgoodmenprank.html)

I think it's been out there for a while, you've probably heard it, but if not it's freakin' hilarious. :)

It wasn't so much a prank call as a death threat. The guy was my ex girlfriend's brother, and he pretended to be some prize committee or like that saying that I was entered into a raffle and won the prize. Once I told him my address, things got a little ugly.

One of the oddest ones I ever got was a few years ago.
I'd split up with my g/f (ok, she dumped me and moved out) and so had to get a flatmate in as I couldn't afford the rent.
After a few weeks of fruitless advertising, I finally had to accept this real dodgy character.
My suspicisions turned out to be correct when he emptied a very large tin of spare change I kept in my room of all the coins above 5c and took off. It would have been around $400 in coins (I'd filled it once before and had nearly$600)
When he came back to get his things and I refused to let him in, he even had the audacity of calling the police and having one of them come round to 'protect' him from me while he took all his clothes and shit away.
The cop was a nice guy, soon sized the situation up (checked up on the flatmate and found he had been down several times for burglary etc) and worked out which one of us was the arsehole. He gave him a $200 ticket for his unregistered car and even called up another car to be waiting at the bottom of the hill to stop him and give him another $200 ticket. The cop said it wouldn't be worth doing anything about the coins, which annoyed me at the time (as I was completely broke) but I can now see he was right.

Anyway, about 2 months after he left, I get this phone call from some middle-aged man who called me by my name and asked me if I'd lost any coins. Thrown by this I said yes, and why. He explained he'd found a bag full recently and, asking around, heard I'd lost some.
I wasn't really thinking so kept talking to him. I thought maybe he was a mate of one of my neighbours at this point.
We cleared up that those coins weren't mine ('apparently' the coins he 'found' were gold ones) but then he started asking me questions about my ex-flatmate and what I thought of him.
Something was really nagging me about all this and I suddenly remembered - my phone number was not only unlisted but also stilll under my ex-g/f name. Which meant of course no-one could call me unless they knew me or knew someone who knew me.
I asked him who he was and where he got my number from and he got really cagey and just kept trying to ask me what I thought about my ex-flatmate.
I hung up.
Guy never called back.
I reported the call to Telecom but they won't do anything unless there's more than one. And even then it's just to call the person back and tell them to stop.


Only thing I can think of was it was a call made from a mate of the ex-flatmate, but I really can't see what the whole point of it was. Was it just to wind me up about the stolen coins or was he wanting to see what I would say about him? Did he really think I cared enough to give a flying fuck about him weeks later?

just...odd.

You ever had a really strange prank call? Not just the standard refridgerator stuff. I had one last night. Someone on the phone claiming to be Ashley (the girl in the Johnny needs helpage thread) called me. It was overdramatic so I'm sure it's a prank. But I got a number, so I'm just gonna follow it to confirm my suspicions. Anyone else get something like that?

Once two 40 year old guys kept calling me and whenever I picked up they'd say wither "THIS IS STEVE or THIS IS BOB" at the top of their lungs instead of the traditional. Steve always cussed me out for little or no reason at all, and even once sang me a song which was an attempt to freak me out but all it did was make me laugh because of how drunk he sounded, Bob was the nice one and kept asking about Steve. It pissed me off at first and made me flip out and go paranoid but after a few months I looked back and laughed.

Is your refridgerator running?