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Well, what is the weirdest call you have gotten with the response: "wrong number."

Can anyone top: "Your mother is frankenstein!"

You can also post funny prank calls you have done or gotten.

I remember doing a prank call in the wee hours of the morning on another college campus... I was in high school and at a debate tournament, which had already ended. This was at, like, maybe 1 o'clock.

So, anyway, a few friends and I decided to prank call anyone. Just random 9 digits. So this one guy took out his cell, dialed 9 random digits... and... AND...

Well, it turned out we called a guy in the middle of an orgy.




So I wasn't on the "Wrong Number" side, but it was hilarious nonetheless.

I used to call companies whose advertising jingles I hated, with friends, when I was in school. We'd spend a few days compiling the names of the operators and making bland queries about the merchandise, slowly injecting a bit of small-talk to get some personal information about the operators. Then we'd call up as friends or relatives of those operators and screw with them in various ways. Research is essential in effective hijinking. :)

Edit: although I do regret a few of them, and actually called back and apologized for one.

Ha, a few years ago a dentist (or a doctor, I can't quite recall) had gone on vacation or something and referred his patients to somebody else but gave them the wrong number... our number. So I got a rather large number of calls from various people needing root canals and the like. It got quite out of hand as a number of people were convinced that I'd switched phone lines or something on them and that it was some sort of sick prank. Eventually somebody called 911 instead, the cops in turn called me to ask me what the hell was going on and I in turn told I had no fucking idea what the hell this dentist was doing referring his patients to some house in a different county and that they should probably check with him. The calls ended after that.

I hope this thread can produce as funny a read as The Escapist forum one ey? ,)

"*heavy panting* Sorry, baby, you were in the middle of *graphic sexual description*..."

Apparently the phone cut out during phone sex and he dialed me back instead of his girlfriend. Most awkward wrong number call ever.

Och usually the ones I recieve are rubbish. But we did a number on the Skol (worst lager ever btw) helpline, which is manned by ACTUAL PEOPLE :D

Ha, a few years ago a dentist (or a doctor, I can't quite recall) had gone on vacation or something and referred his patients to somebody else but gave them the wrong number... our number. So I got a rather large number of calls from various people needing root canals and the like. It got quite out of hand as a number of people were convinced that I'd switched phone lines or something on them and that it was some sort of sick prank. Eventually somebody called 911 instead, the cops in turn called me to ask me what the hell was going on and I in turn told I had no fucking idea what the hell this dentist was doing referring his patients to some house in a different county and that they should probably check with him. The calls ended after that.

In a related, but lamer fashion, our phone number is ****** 8482 and the local pharmacy is ****** 8284 - we get a lot of old people ringing up with enquiries about their medicine.:(

Weirdest one ever was while I was working in a library in Germany... I was the first in the office one morning, and when I came in the phone was ringing.
I picked up, and someone was shouting at me : "What else do you want from me??? I sent you everything I've got already!!!"
I was trying to get a word in, but the guy kept yelling for a while longer.
When I finally got a "Listen, this is the town library here!" in, he was silent for a moment, then yelled "Library??? No, fire insurance!!!" and hung up...

i do believe someone at one time accidentally rang the red phone in the oval office. this would of course have required a number of other fumbles then their own, numerous machines and live persons alike, both in the phone company and the government would all have had to have really blown it at the same time for this to have happened. murphys law however, has even that possiblity covered.

i do believe it was sometime during either the nixxon or ford regemes this, if it acutually did, and i'm NOT discounting that it might have, took place.

Well, one call was pretty remarkable even though my parents received it. I'll explain it from my perspective though. I arrived in Israel and Allanea (/me sends a kiss) and me had better things to do than call that I did arrive. So when I eventually did it my parents were really worried. And by really I mean really. It turned out that they saw a missed call on their phone -- from Bangladesh. Now they worried the entire time how I ended up there. ;)

I got a group of drunk girls one time who insisted on coming over for a party after they got our house number by mistake (I was rooming with 4 other guys at the time), but we were all sufficiently weirded out into not providing any info for them.

I think the funniest one was a really smashed woman who kept calling me one night over and over again demanding to talk to, Dan IIRC, to tell him what a bastard he was. I kept explaining that there was no Dan here and no, we didn't know Dan nor the new slut he had hooked up with and no, we couldn't pass on any message about the supposed parentage of said Dan due to not knowing him and so on. This went on for hours and this woman was just getting more and more incoherent as it went along.

As for my own wrong numbers, well once when working at one of my university computer labs we ran into an issue with Word Perfect that we couldn't get around for a student so we looked up the help line number for Word Perfect in the manual we had for the program and called in to talk to their tech guys just to hear that a girl who was feeling so hot and wet for us would be on the line in just a second...

We quickly hung up, checked the number and dialed again after laughing at it for a bit... Just to be told that, no, really, this girl who was just dripping and soaking her undies would be on the phone in just a minute. To this day I'm still not sure if there was a misprint in the book or Word Perfect just took another number and we didn't know about it or what. I DID have to explain to the university about why the computer lab I was in charge of called a sex line, twice, though.

When i was a teen back in the days before caller ID, i was at a Hallmark Store in the mall, and they had one of those store contests where you fill out a form and stuff it in the ballot box for a drawing. The hole for stuffing was particularly large so i reached in and grabbed like 100 completed ballots. My friend and i spent a whole day calling 100 people and congratulating them for winning THE GRAND PRIZE and to please come and pick up their award.

Hours and hours of teen amusement.One guy making the phone call while the other would pick up the extension phone and listen in while both of you are trying soo hard not to crack up.

I once tried to call a friend and somehow managed to switch two digits.

Ended up talking with a stranger for a couple of minutes. The strange thing? Neither he nor I noticed that we were talking to the "wrong" people.

He was expecting a call from his buddy to make plans to go out, the same reason why I wanted to call my buddy.

Only when we disagreed about time and place did we notice that we actually were talking to the wrong people. So, after sharing a good laugh, we hung up.

Well, it turned out we called a guy in the middle of an orgy.

"Hey, is your refrigerator running?"
"No, but Sonya is about to do that thing with the whipped cream and the screwdriver, Amanda is putting on the leather suit and the gimp is mine to play with for now. What do you want?"

I did campaign calls for Obama for a while, and ended up with some very weird people on the end of the line.

Me: Hello, my name is Nikolai, and I'm calling on behalf of the Barack Obama campaign for change
Old Lady: Are you a Russian!?! I think you're a Russian! I don't talk to Russians!!! *click*

Me: Hello, my name is--
Guy: Hi, there's no one available to take your *coughcoughcoughsneezecough* call *hackhackcoughcough*
Me: Sir, you're not fooling anyone, you're not an answering machine.
Guy: *click*

For me actually being on the receiving end, the best was probably when I got called by an ancient Italian woman, who didn't hear very well, and refused to accept that I wasn't her apparently very handsome young friend "Frederico".

She proceeded to tell me, in Italian, which I don't entirely understand, about how we had to go to lunch, and she couldn't wait to see me, and detailing every bit of her plan for tomorrow, completely ignoring me every time I told her I was not Frederico, and she had the wrong number... After about 1/2 hour of this, she finally said she had to go, blew me a kiss over the phone, and hung up... This repeated every few days for about two weeks.

She proceeded to tell me, in Italian, which I don't entirely understand, about how we had to go to lunch, and she couldn't wait to see me, and detailing every bit of her plan for tomorrow, completely ignoring me every time I told her I was not Frederico, and she had the wrong number... After about 1/2 hour of this, she finally said she had to go, blew me a kiss over the phone, and hung up... This repeated every few days for about two weeks.

Maybe saying it in Italian might help? "Io no sono Frederico"?

several incidents.


When i was stationed in maryland Florida state troopers kept calling my cell phone. I was on day shift the first month and we are not allowed cell phones on site. 2nd month I answer it and I get sir dont you know that stealing a rental car is a various serius offence and it would help me alot if i returned the rental car and paid the late fees.
Turns out someone rented a car and ran off in florida and left my number.

When i was stationed in korea I get a call on my cell phone from a wife stateside. Her husband had also gotten a cell phone with a simlar number to my own. He wasnt answering his phone and so she decided to to try numbers with slightly differnt numbers. Apperntly she didnt understand it was a cell phone and if he is at work he might have to turn it off. anyways i spent 3 weeks with her trying to trick me to being her private investigator.

I once answered my phone to hear another male voice on the other end say "Who the hell are you?"

Me: Who the hell are you?!

Guy: I asked first!

Me: I'm (name).

Guy: What are you doing with my girlfreinds phone?!

Me: What is your girlfreind doing by giving you my phone number?

For about a week, a few months back, I had some chavs to kept ringing my mobile phone, this boy who kept asking for this guy. I kept telling that he had the wrong number to which he replied, "are you sure?".

Also had some girl (presumingly friends of the guy who kept ringing me by mistake) ring up one day and accused me of having stolen her friend's phone. The thing is I had had this number for a good three years by that point, which I told her only to get a good ten minutes of verbal abuse in return.

I was tempted to put the phone down to one side and let her continue shouting and swearing down the phone line (thereby using up her credit) or walk next door to the police station and hand the phone over asking the officer on duty "hi, could you continue this call for me please?"

Maybe saying it in Italian might help? "Io no sono Frederico"?

Tried that... repeatedly. She finally went away after a few weeks, with no explanation whatsoever.

I once answered my phone to hear another male voice on the other end say "Who the hell are you?"

Me: Who the hell are you?!

Guy: I asked first!

Me: I'm (name).

Guy: What are you doing with my girlfreinds phone?!

Me: What is your girlfreind doing by giving you my phone number?Epic. Just pure epic. :p

I once answered my phone to hear another male voice on the other end say "Who the hell are you?"

Me: Who the hell are you?!

Guy: I asked first!

Me: I'm (name).

Guy: What are you doing with my girlfreinds phone?!

Me: What is your girlfreind doing by giving you my phone number?

I'd have said "damn it, she must have grabbed mine when we got dressed"

I was once woken up at 3:30am by some blind drunk isiot who kept insisting that I was 'Rob' adn that I "Hadn't left the bloody ute keys in the rigth place". After I finally convinced him I was not actually Robert, he still kept asking me where the keys were and to ask Robert.

I once answered a call to my cellphone that immediately began with a woman saying, "Don't you fucking hang up on me!" She proceeded to cuss me out for a minute before I asked her who the hell she is, at which point I was informed of my long-lost aunt who I had apparently just gotten into a huge fight with. After explaining to her that I was not, in fact, her nephew, she hung up without even apologizing, the rude ****.

Other odd phone moments I've had. For the longest time my number was, for some inexplicable reason, registered to a Katrina Cosmoski. It wasn't when I got it, but at some time it just randomly switched to that name, very odd. This wouldn't be that bad if all it did was cause friends and relatives a might bit of confusion (funny story about this...my cousin thought I had found a nice Russian Jewish girl or something and was very happy until I explained it to her =p), however this silly Cosmoski woman apparently had gone around owing a crapton of money on credit so for about three months I repeatedly got automated calls from a collections agency informing me that they had an urgent message for Katrina Cosmoski. The catch was, though, that the only way I could talk to a human operator was to stay on the line but, by staying on the line, I was apparently admitting to being Katrina Cosmoski. Being in a bit of a bind, I just ignored it for a while. Finally I stayed on the line and told the human operator that they were welcome to keep calling me, I don't use anywhere near all of my minutes or anything, but they'd probably not get their money any time soon as I did not know anyone by the name of Katrina Cosmoski.

One I forgot earlier, but easily one of my best.

I once received a phone call from an unknown number, which promptly, without any introduction, told me to "get in your car and drive to 1471 North Avenue." Being very confused, I responded with "what the fuck?", and was immediately told "Don't you have ears? I said it's at 1471 North Avenue, now go, before you run out of time."

After a minute of talking confusedly to the man on the line, what turned out to have happened was that a pizza restaurant had dialed the wrong number when trying to reach one of their delivery men, and was in a rush because they had a "30 minutes or your money back" policy, and the address was right at the edge of where they delivered to...

This is the weirdest one I've gotten. I came home one day, and there was a message on the answering machine. The voice was faint and I could barely make it out, so I took the tape (this was back when answering machine still ran on tape), and I amplify it with a tape recorder. It said "Can you help him?" I called up the phone company to see who left the message, and apparently they couldn't trace it back due to the line being disconnected. :eek:

A lady called my cellphone asking for John. I said wrong number, she asked if I knew John's number. I asked which John it was that she wanted to call (both my father and brother are Johns), and she was all "wut?"

I got confused.

This is the weirdest one I've gotten. I came home one day, and there was a message on the answering machine. The voice was faint and I could barely make it out, so I took the tape (this was back when answering machine still ran on tape), and I amplify it with a tape recorder. It said "Can you help him?" I called up the phone company to see who left the message, and apparently they couldn't trace it back due to the line being disconnected. :eek:

That sounds like quite the idea for a movie

That sounds like quite the idea for a movie

I think they already did, it's called "Missed Call" or something like that. I do remember them having Boost ads everywhere and using Boost phones.

Not mine, of course, but 1930 Nightmare Theater (http://www.dummcomics.com/index?sid=241) just did a comic about this subject, so I'm linking it because it's awesome.

Here's a funny wrong number call...

Just got a new landline installed at home and apparently the previous owner of the number was Caroline Majors (or Majers?) After getting several calls for Mrs. Caroline M-etc and explaining to I don't know how many people that she no longer had the number I recieved yet another call foer her.

I pretended to bust up in tears and tell them I was her father and that she had just died the day before in a horrible accident: She got hit by an ambulance. And then in the same 'tear filled' voice went on to tell them how bad it made me feel that I had to explain this to a total stranger over the phone because they were trying to collect a debt and about how expensive the funeral was going to be and etc until they finally hung up.

I havn't got a call from them in a week now.


I also found that you can stop telemarketers from calling if you hit on thier employees.
"You got a really pretty voice. My name is (name) whats yours?"

Once or twice I have actually had them answer me, and even flirt :p.

I remember doing a prank call in the wee hours of the morning on another college campus... I was in high school and at a debate tournament, which had already ended. This was at, like, maybe 1 o'clock.

So, anyway, a few friends and I decided to prank call anyone. Just random 9 digits. So this one guy took out his cell, dialed 9 random digits... and... AND...

Well, it turned out we called a guy in the middle of an orgy.




So I wasn't on the "Wrong Number" side, but it was hilarious nonetheless.


I should think you interupted some chap watching porn alone, entertaining himself... bless x