It's 9:55 at night and our telephone rings. We're the sort of family who doesn't use the phone after 8, so this is abnormal.

BSG: Hello?
Ebonic Idiot: Hey, come out.
BSG: Um, what?
Ebonic Idiot: I'm outside, tell Chris to come out.

My Mother's name is Chris. I'm confused for a second, but I quickly figure out that he's got the wrong number.

BSG: Oh, sorry. I think you've got the wrong number.
Ebonic Idiot: Nah, just tell him to come out, dude?
BSG: Um, no. You've got the wrong number.

My dad yells from his slumber: Just hang up.
So I did.

10 seconds...

BSG: I'm sorry man, but there's no Chris here.
Ebonic Idiot: [Not angry] I don't have time for this. Tell him to get out here.
BSG: Wrong number.
Ebonic Idiot: are you his little brother? Put Chris on.

I hang up again.

It rings once, and only once. 10 seconds later it rings twice, and only twice. He calls a third time, and lets it ring 12 times before I pick it up.

BSG: What's the street address?
Ebonic Idiot: Um uh I uh think uh [Street Address]
BSG: That's in Duluth, right?
Ebonic Idiot: Hey dude, stop ****ing around, git chris
BSG: - Just wait. That address, that's DOWN TOWN. 2 and a quarter miles from the place I'm sitting. Everyone in this house is asleep. The person, this "Chris" doesn't live here. Stop calling. I'm going to bed. Please. Goodnight.

No freaking joke, I hang up, and it's rining before I even set down the phone.

He's not calling anymore, about 10 minutes after. I'm going to bed now. If he calls again, I'm going to put his number online someplace. How daft can you be?

auwwiii

Anytime you have to ask " Are people really THAT stupid?", the answer is "YES".

POST HIS PHONE NUMBER!

Indeed.

I've gotten calls like that before. It's pretty absurd that people are than dense.

Dude... Kirbs... Why didn't you just do the normal thing of letting him talk to dead air and leaving the phone off the hook?

Problem solved.

Unless that's only normal for my house.... >.>

I get a call almost every evening from some dude mumbling in Turkish (I think) - the quality's so bad that it's barely audible. Every. Freaking. Evening. From 9 PM to 2 AM. He doesn't call back when I hang up, just calls the next evening/night. WTF.

Yeah, people are that stupid.

You could have played with him and really put Chris into a lot of trouble!

Tell him what number he called and ask him if that's the number he wanted.

-Assuming he calls again or you invent a time machine. I vote the second one.

Post his phone number so we can harass him on skype.

Seems like a random prank call. If that's the case I usually respond in a sexy 70's pornstar voice with the "ding ding dong" song.

"Ooooh you touch my tra la la ... my ding ding dong ... "

I called my cell phone to test the free SkypeOut, and he won't be able to call back since the caller ID shows "000 012 3456" :p

Or tis Chris dude gave him a fake number. For awhile, at my parents house, we kept getting these calls from guys for some girl. People kept asking for the same girl everytime. Whoever it was, was giving these guys a fake number, which happened to be ours.

What annoys me is the people who will call my phone and I don't answer because I don't recognize the number, and then this person will leave me voicemail despite it being made pretty clear who they're calling when it goes to voicemail. I swear it happens at least once a week.

Gunther FTW

What's an ebonic idiot?

That happened to me once or twice. One time the guy was like "Hey Rick, we got a shipment goin out and I need you to let me know within the hour where its goin or we'll miss the deadline and lose the customer. Call me back quick, allright?"

Yea so I guess someone's business suffered.

You should had shouted at the top of your lungs:

I AM GOD AND THE DEVIL!!!!! STOP MESSING WITH MY SPOON YA DUMB DICK!!!

...and then start spazzing out on the phone. That should do the trick.

There are plenty of them in Oakland. Come on up and I'll take you on a tour.

of course, the first mental image is the WoW video...

what the hey who. that'd freak me out lol. id learn just how to say "wrong number" in turkish haha

As soon as I saw the thread title, I knew the answer was "Yes."

Haven't seen that, but I've seen the actual music video, and that's an image that will stay with me forever

Shaniqua don't live here no mo'!

No, I'd have to say this is a prank call. A friend of mine does it like that all the time, except he always calls the Operator and asks

"Is Enrique there?" And when they say no, and tell him this is the Operator, he just continues and says "I know. For Godsakes, it's a single digit phone number. Just put him on, okay?"

But yeah, the idjit is definitely a prankster. He probably called from a payphone. Still, it would've been funny for him, and thus, not a waste of money.

Post his number, I have sudden uirge to try free skope phone calls.

Jep : "Hey baby, I've been wanting to talk to you for a while!"
Ebonic Idiot : Who is this?
Jep : "THIS IS BRIAN PEPPERS! DO A BARREL ROLL!"

\m/

I so want to hear that conversation.

And on the left, you'll see Bubb Rubb and Lil' Sis. :p

Post his number so I can anonymously skype that ***.

Last time I got prank calls, I just kept reading this: http://sestus.com/deep.php

The guy finally stopped doing this silly voice he'd been doing and started going, "What the hell?! Stop! STOP!" and eventually hung up and didn't call back.

You turned the tables on him. :p

Caller ID seems to bring the end to the era of prank calls.

Kirb if that happened to me I'd unplug every phone in my house and go back to sleep.

That's just letting the teleterrorists win...

[QUOTE=The Mega-ZZTer]Kirb if that happened to me I'd unplug every phone in my house and go back to sleep.[/QUOTE]

Or just leave the phone off the hook >.>

I personnaly prefer reaching through the telephone and stabing the man in the face with his own phone. Takes skill but its awesome.

I don't think it was a prank phone, because he called from his cell phone. The guy also sounded pre-occupied, as if he were doing something else, and not listening very well.

If I weren't sick, I would've totally played back. I am the god of the telephone war-zone.

And leaving the phone off the hook can do major crap to your minutes, dudes.

-Sometimes. If someone gets OoH with me, I do the same back at them. Yeah, I lose minutes too, but they started it.

WOO WOO