The Prank Call thread...

[Disneyland1084]

Kids nowadays sure don't have it as easy as most of us Disers did. With caller ID, Star 69, etc..it makes it hard to do a prank call without getting caught. But we've all done them. Tell me one you've done, or one you've heard of that makes you laugh. During nearly every slumber party I went to, we'd play truth or dare. If it was a dare, we'd always call a guy and tell him he's cute. ...I didn't make this call, but a couple of years ago I was watching a video on Youtube on the Westboro Baptist Church. A user posted that he had called them and as soon as the machine came on, he put the phone to his butt and farted really loud.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I used to crank call all of the time. We did the dumb ones: is your fridge running, etc.


I would get so nervous, but it was SO easy. You just called the first four digits of your own number, then add any three digits and you knew you were calling someone local. When a man answered, I would get so scared and I have NO idea why. I used to try and then hang up, then giggle.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

When my friends and I were young (but too old to really be doing that kind of stuff), this was far too entertaining. Immaturity to the highest level.

asking hotels if they had hourly rates
asking the guy who answers the phone at a bowling alley if he had 12lb, (bowling) balls

calls to people who had a name that could be butchered to sound like something dirty. Some poor guy with the last name Cox for example.

 

[DawnM]

Oh, I was involved in a really bad prank call as a teen. I didn't actually make the call, but I was there.

My friend called a random number (but one close to the actual number) and said, "Mom?" The caller said, "I think you have the wrong number." She said, "Oh no. I don't know what to do, we are at the movie theater and I can't get home, my mom's car broke down so we are calling Tim's mom to pick us up. We don't have any more change to call her."

Now, mind you, this was 11pm in the rain.

The person would graciously offer to call for us.

Tim's mom did NOT check his bed. If she had, she would have seen that he was in it and not at the movie theater (she thought he snuck out). That night, not only did we get Tim's mom out of bed, but she got a flat tire in the rain close to midnight. She walked all over that area looking for her son. She was LIVID.

I felt horrible after I found out what happened.

 

[Disneyland1084]

Oh, I was involved in a really bad prank call as a teen. I didn't actually make the call, but I was there.

My friend called a random number (but one close to the actual number) and said, "Mom?" The caller said, "I think you have the wrong number." She said, "Oh no. I don't know what to do, we are at the movie theater and I can't get home, my mom's car broke down so we are calling Tim's mom to pick us up. We don't have any more change to call her."

Now, mind you, this was 11pm in the rain.

The person would graciously offer to call for us.

Tim's mom did NOT check his bed. If she had, she would have seen that he was in it and not at the movie theater (she thought he snuck out). That night, not only did we get Tim's mom out of bed, but she got a flat tire in the rain close to midnight. She walked all over that area looking for her son. She was LIVID.

I felt horrible after I found out what happened.

OMG that's bad! But we're all guilty of doing something bad in our life.

 

[Kogo Shuko]

When I was much much younger at a family reunion, the whole group of cousins got ahold of a phone and ended up doing prank calls. The one I remember most was calling one particular number and asking for "Fred". Each cousin would call and ask for Fred, and near the end we knew the person was getting irritated.

The last cousin picked up the phone and called them back a last time and basically said, "This is Fred. Has anyone called for me?"

Oooooh the person on the other side of that line was NOOOOOT happy with us.

 

[kkandaj]

This is why I loved the show "crank yankers." They have clips on youtube. If you like prank calls, it will be hilarious to you.

I was a prankster--until one day when my older brother pranked a local company and they called back to talk to my parents. I stopped doing prank calls then...until... college.

I will admit DH, DSis and I pranked people on a road trp about 4 months ago. It was people we know but changed our voices--and set our cell settings to "unknown caller". The best part was our cell phones were hooked up through the car speakers (the AUX cable) so you could hear everything that was being said. I guess I should grow up at some point in my life.

ETA: My kids were not in the car with me during the time. I haven't taught them the art of pranking people...yet.

 

[njmom47]

We used to call this teacher we had a crush on, and someone would pick up another phone in another room and we would talk about him so when he answered he would hear our conversation. So mature we were in middle school!!

We have caller ID and when dh doesn't recognize the # sometimes he will pick up and use a voice with a cultural accent and pretend he doesn't understand what the caller is saying.

 

[NaLisa]

I'm pretty sure caller ID was invented by someone whom my friends and I prank called as kids.

We did a lot of those already mentioned, but one of our go-to pranks was "Kitty from the Itty Bitty ***** Committee." We thought that was hilarious.

 

[MIGrandma]

The only one I remember from when I was a kid, was the "refrigerator running" one.

Probably 8-10 years ago someone prank called the restaurant where I worked. I was the lucky one to answer the phone. It was a super busy Friday night and the kid asked if "Mike Hunt" was there. Thankfully I "got it" right away, because he wanted me to go shout it out in the dining room to find out if he was there or not. I just said something like I wasn't falling for it and hung up. The owner always said absolutely no *69 so I couldn't find out who it was, but I was tempted to do it anyway. I think it would have been an extra charge on the phone bill, my guess anyway. I think it's a lot harder for kids to do the prank calls anymore, with most everyone having caller I.D.

 

[SydSim]

My girlfriends and I called a number and a man answered. We started off with "Hey, how have you been? It's been a while". The man asked who it was, and we said something like " What, you don't know who this is......" And he said some name (Betty) from downstairs (apparently it was an apartment building) to which we replied "You got it!"

We continued to have a little small talk (oh, I'm fine, getting over a cold, stuff like that). Then we said "Are you busy right now? Why don't you come up for a visit." He said "Sure, I'll be right up."

Can't imagine what happened after that.

 

[luvgoing2disney]

We had a new employee transfer into our department and I set up a "welcome to the department" prank on her.

She went to lunch one day and when she returned there was a note for her to return a call to a Mr. L. E. Vater. So she called, just as nice as she could be, and asked to speak to Mr. Vater. The rep who she was speaking to said they had no one by that name and so our worker repeated that she had a message to call Mr. Vater, a mister L E Vater, then she realized that was asking for mr. elevator, and that the number she had called was the Bagby elevator company.

We still laugh about that one to this day. BTW, she is my best friend in the department, having worked together for almsot 18 years now.

 

[Robinrs]

Remember "Prince Albert in a can?"

Man am I ooooold...

 

[pittypat]

Back when dorm rooms had phones, ours and our suite mates' phones had cords long enough that they could "meet" in the bathroom. We would call two random numbers and each one thought the other had done the calling. One night we called two girls that we knew didn't like each other and wow...talk about a cat fight! For some reason this was hilarious.

 

[Rence]

In my college days (mid-1970s) I would prank call other dorm rooms. There was a separate exchange for dorm phone numbers - so I'd just dial a number at random. It was St. Patrick's day and the start of final's week (trimester system). I was calling random numbers and in a horrible Irish accent I was wishing folks happy finals week.

I called one room and the girl that answered was chatty so we talked. She and her roommate passed the phone back and forth. This went on for about 10 minutes when I said "I bet you can't guess who this is?". One of the girl's said "Orin is that you?"

"How'd you guess, I didn't think you'd remember me?"

We chatted a bit and then I said that the probably couldn't come up with my last name, she responded with the name - and I grabbed the student directory (this is a hard-copy book at the time - decades before Facebook) and I had his hometown and his major, what dorm he lived it etc.

"Yep, I'm studying for my Chemical Engineering final, that's my last test before I head home to xxxx for spring break"

Finally we started to wind it down and I said how great it was talking to them. She said that she sometimes spots me in the cafeteria but is too shy to say hi. So I told her.....

"Well now that we're such good friends, I don't want you to say a word next time you see me. I want you to run up to me, throw your arms around me and plant a great big kiss right on my lips"

I'll never know if it ever happened.

 

[Erin1700]

In my college days (mid-1970s) I would prank call other dorm rooms. There was a separate exchange for dorm phone numbers - so I'd just dial a number at random. It was St. Patrick's day and the start of final's week (trimester system). I was calling random numbers and in a horrible Irish accent I was wishing folks happy finals week.

I called one room and the girl that answered was chatty so we talked. She and her roommate passed the phone back and forth. This went on for about 10 minutes when I said "I bet you can't guess who this is?". One of the girl's said "Orin is that you?"

"How'd you guess, I didn't think you'd remember me?"

We chatted a bit and then I said that the probably couldn't come up with my last name, she responded with the name - and I grabbed the student directory (this is a hard-copy book at the time - decades before Facebook) and I had his hometown and his major, what dorm he lived it etc.

"Yep, I'm studying for my Chemical Engineering final, that's my last test before I head home to xxxx for spring break"

Finally we started to wind it down and I said how great it was talking to them. She said that she sometimes spots me in the cafeteria but is too shy to say hi. So I told her.....

"Well now that we're such good friends, I don't want you to say a word next time you see me. I want you to run up to me, throw your arms around me and plant a great big kiss right on my lips"

I'll never know if it ever happened.

We used to do that if we called random numbers and a kid who sounded our age answered. One girl we would call often pretending to be her friend. Even invited us over.

We also used to call people and tell them what page their phone number was on in the phone book.

Sometimes called local churches and ask "what time is the 8:00 mass?"

We also used to call QVC and home shopping club and talk their ear off.

 

[Sabeking]

We prank called and ordered pizza to a neighbor's house to be delivered. That was before they would take payment on the phone. Terrible!

We were awful youngins'! More than prank calls we would either ring the door bell and run or tp peoples yards.

Once my brothers rang a neighbors door that was always drunk. Every time before he came out they would jump up on the roof of the carport and watch him raise hell when he got out there.

Another time we took those shreds from shredding documents and put them all in an x-boyfriend's yard knowing it was supposed to rain that night. Talk about a mess.

It is a wonder that all of us five siblings came out to be productive law abiding citizens!

 

[IDoDis]

Years ago at a school I taught at, one of the teachers was talking in the teachers' lounge about how she applied to be on the TV show, "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" She said she left the school number in case they called her for an interview during the day. She gave the office clear instructions to call to her classroom on the intercom if the show called her and NOT to take a message. We didn't have phones in our classrooms and not many people had cell phones yet.

So one day the PE coach arranged to prank her. He had the school secretary buzz her on the intercom saying that the TV show called and was on hold. The teacher ran to the classroom next door, told the teacher to keep an eye on her students while she went to take the call. She ran to the gym and picked up the call in the gym office. The PE teacher was on the other line. He disguised his voice and told her he was from "Who wants it be a Millionaire" and was going to pre-qualify her. So he asked her several trivia questions that she answered correctly. Then he said, "Congratulations! You are going to be on the show!" The teacher was whooping and hollering after she hung up. She ran to the school office to tell the principal, and told everyone at school when the kids went out to recess. She even called her DH, her sister, and her parents and told them.

At the end of the day, the PE coach finally fessed up. Boy, was she livid! She didn't speak to him for a month!

 

[DeaverTex]

Wow. If I'd ever prank called anybody I'd STILL be grounded! I just asked Mrs. Tex and she said pretty much the same thing.

 

[sunnyday123]

This was back in the 70's, I was 7, and forever cured of ever making another prank call.

Because my parents had the audacity to have another baby, they got me a phone for my room. Back then, you had to get your phone from the phone company, couldn't buy them like at Wal-Mart or Target. So I had this pretty blue phone, and it had the little paper on it with a phone number! How awesome I thought! Clearly it was my own phone number, and I could call my Mom!!

So my bf and I proceeded to dial my phone number, but it didn't work. So we called the number on my phone. A man answered. We giggled and hung up, and proceeded to call him back a bazillion times, never saying anything.

We got bored and started doing something else. My Mom came into my room and said someone was here to talk to us.

It was the FBI. I'm not even kidding. Apparently, the man we had been calling was a witness in a trial ( and stupid for leaving the little phone number paper on his old phone ) for the Pagans, and his phone was tapped by the FBI, and they had knocked on the door telling my Mom she had to come with them. When she said no, she had an infant and small child at home, they discussed the calls.

I hid under the kitchen table for the rest of the day and night with our German Shepard because I knew nobody was getting if I was with her, and my Dad came home and said he heard on the radio there was an APB out for two little girls making phone calls.

To this day if I call a wrong number, I apologize profusely.