Ok, Ever since I got my new cell phone I've been getting weird random calls from several different numbers and they all seemingly ask for the same guy. I figured that was strange enough, but it got suddenly way better.

This lady called me last night and this is pretty much how the conversation went down.

Me: Hello?
Her: Uh... hi, I havn't called you guys in a while, can you help me?
Me: uh.. wha...huh?
Her: Who is this?
Me: Grant...
Her: oh, you must be new, I havn't called you guys in a while, So I don't know everyones names, maybe some new people are working with him, I donno... but can you help me out? I've got 100 bucks and I'm desprate.
Me: uh... what? I don't think....
Her: please, c'mon... you have any food?

At this point my cell was kinda crapping out on me so I didn't quite hear here, so I THOUGHT she said food...

Me: Food?
Her: yeah, got some food?

Ok.. that weird, she wants some food... sure... I've got mac and cheese, some beef in the freezer, crackers, milk, eggs... I think I've got some food.

Me: uh, yeah I've got plenty of food.
Her: (sounding rather excited) Great, can you help me out, I've got 100, can you come see me?

Ok, so I'm officialy confused and have no idea what the hell is going on...

Me: Uh... well... I.... uh, I think you might have the wrong number.
her: Who is this?
Me: Grant....
Her: Do you know (insert dealers name)? (think it was like dan or greg or something, don't remember now)
Me: no... I think you might have the wrong number here.
Her: uh.. you uh... *click*

she hung up there and I didn't hear anything since then. But I was really confused about the whole thing, and I kinda figured that maybe she was trying to buy some drugs... but it gets better.

So I'm talking with some buddies from work and I tell them my story, Mason's kinda sitting there like, "uh?" and then ashton drops the bomb and says... "dude, Food is a street word for Crack.".

we had a good laugh once I realised that she was indeed trying to buy drugs from me, and Crack no less... It totaly explains the long list of people who continualy call me and sound a little edgy and keep looking for the same guy.

The Dude who owned my cell number before me was totaly a drug dealer, that or my number is really, really close to his either way it's funny as ****. Now I've got to think of some fun things to do when they call me back again, I KNOW i'll get some calls again... them crack addicts love their crack.

Mason suggested I just get some crack and deal it, hell the addicts already have my number... I've got the customers :D.

So, if you had a cell phone number that was owned buy a drug dealer and kept getting calls for some "food" late at night, what would you do? I mean.... c'mon... I need some fun ideas. I was thinking maybe give them a complex set of instructions to "pick up" some food at the corner of a street near my apartment and watch from a distance as they open the "package" to find some bread and cheese.... Hey, they wanted food.

You could always deal in powdered sugar. . .

i know it was meant as a joke but i wouldnt recommend dealing it, especially through that phone number; ever think why the guy before no longer has that number?? ill bet you $200 food its because his calls were being tapped and hes in jail now :downs:

Dude, on a serious note, i would not do this.

I used to smoke to smoke some bad stuff once upon a time and ill tell you first hand that when you **** with a crack head they dont think its funny. They obviously are mistaken about your identity and i have no idea if theyll be able to figure out who you are, but the fact that they called the wrong number and asked you for anything (even if it was as vaugue as "food") would be enough to set any crackhead into a nervous paranoia for several days. Not to mention what this persons freinds will think about it once the story gets mixed up from one doper to another (and trust me, when your on this stuff a story can go WAY out of hand from nothing). I guarantee that even if you only got this call last night by now there are at least four to eight crack heads somewhere VERY paranoid about the consequences of that phonecall.

Dont mess with serious addicts like this, they do not react well. it may result in nothing or may result in something else, but the risk is not one that i would ever take in your place. Think about it and dont be dumb. this isn't a game to them, its the whole reason there alive.

Yeah, I don't think I have the time nor the capital to start a drug dealing ring, maybe in a few years...



Meh, It does not bother me one single bit, It's a cell phone number and I ain't told anyone where I live or met anyone or done anything yet, this is the first call I've actually had that clued me in that they were after the drugs, most hung up once they relised they had the wrong number.

honestly, I don't really care much about some crackhead on the other side of the city who's parnoid about buying crack. If anything i'd think there might be a bunch of tweaked out angry crack heads hunting down the guy they think is responsible... obvisouly they've met this person and his lackies, she asked me to come see her and I've gotten other calls from people that have asked me to come see them or meet them. I donno, i just don't see it as that serious of a problem or any real threat to me.

Have to agree with Joker. Screwing with desperate addicts is dangerous business, even if it would be kind of funny.

As funny as it could be, I'd probably change my number in a situation like that. I wouldn't like to be woken up in the middle of night by some loonies, yet I wouldn't like to mute my phone every night before going to sleep, either.

meh, I keep the phone on my desk in the family room most of the time so i don't hear it ringing when I'm asleep, i just wake up and do my stuff and grab my phone before heading out and see 1 new missed call and dismiss it.

when I do have the rare chance to actually talk to them on the phone I usualy tell them they have the wrong number when they ask for this whats his face guy and until last night they all hung up afterwards... it only happens once every week or every other week so it's not much of a nusiunace, I figured my number was just really close to someone who's important or popular. until last night I never really thought it was a dealer.

Your chance to be him:

Let the drug task force guys (if you have them?) from your local PD borrow your phone for a weekend..

I like this idea. Get a way to record your calls and turn them in

A friend of mine a LONG time ago was a dealer of parsley. The people that bought it thought it was weed.

My home phone number is one digit off of the number of a local Staples store. I used to enjoy screwing around with people (they should know better when they call and are answered "Hello" rather than "Hello, this is Staples, how can I help you?"). Good times.

You HAVE to **** with these people and film it. Youtube viral video? Yes.

Also, you should most certainly turn the phone in. Those people need help.

If you want it to stop, claim you are an anti-drug unit. Else just **** with them.

lol @ Echoman

Get some money from crime stoppers for this bit.

So basically he has a chance to create utter chaos and you think he SHOULDNT?

I cant believe what I'm hearing

Seriously, give your PD a call and see if they want to do anything with it.

I don't think they'd be able to use any of it as evidence, or to establish probable cause.

Depending on the department and what type (if any) of anti-drug task force they may have, there may be use for it.

But it couldn't be used as real evidence in court. Kind of like if I broke into OJ Simpson's house, found and "I DID IT" letter and gave it to the prosecution they wouldn't have been able to use it.


I could see it being way more legal tape than the police feel like dealing with. (Courts cost money, long cases cost more)

Actually, there was a case in which a burglar broke into a house, found illegal material, videotaped it and provided it to law enforcement. As law enforcement did not perform the 'search', they were able to prosecute. Related note -- let's say you had a kid..I couldn't search his/her bedroom without consent or a warrant. However, as a parent, you could do so, and give us any illegal material you discovered.

And the phone itself isn't the issue here -- it's the meetings that could be arranged.

But hey, I work in a 6-officer department...definitely no drug task force here. So I can't claim to be a pro in that field...and we're usually bored, so I'll jump on a chance to do something.

They do that to alot of people, and alot of people find a way out of it.

But seriously.

If they made this **** legal and readily available, the crackheads wouldn't have to kill grandma in a home invation to steal a TV to get a fix.

Imagine the money they could make off of legal, TAXED, crack dens. People's stupidity could actually LOWER my income tax.

They would still steal crap to pawn off and buy legal crack.

I don't own a cell phone, never have, but are you able to tell what their phone numbers are when they call you? If so, just turn the numbers in to the cops. Or hell, just call the police department and tell them to get a line with that phone number.

Am I the only one who thinks it's wrong and cruel to mess with addicts? They need help, not harassment.

man thats kind of risky, all it takes is one of these guys finding out where you live, i know its a remote possibility, but hey...

Yeah, it only shows names of ppl in my address book, but the number shows up when they call and the number is logged in my incoming calls log.


maybe they'll be so parnoid of a dealer messing with them they'll stop... or something, I donno, I'm not a crackhead.


I really don't know how they could find me, it's a cellphone, no landline so I don't think they could look it up in a reverse directory, from the sounds of it it's a decent operation with multiple people working on it, maybe they are organized enough but I doubt it.

I've dabbled in a fair share of drugs, and I can quite confidently say that you guys have absolutely no idea what drug culture is like. Don't go jumping headlong into something you clearly know nothing about.

That said, I've never heard crack called 'food' before either! Around here crack is called 'butter', and a rock of crack is called a biscuit. Terribly English.

The U.S. Supreme Court used to agree with you, at least up until the 70's. After that, they went from "needing help" to "tax-drain/prison-cell-occupier/probably-too-poor-to-pay-taxes-anyway-so-why-would-politicians-help-them."

Mort may have a point though. As flaky and and dumb as a lot of druggies can be, some of them are smart. Some of them have to be, especially in the U.S. (I'm throwing this in because I think Grant is a yankee, though I'm not positive on this...), where some users have learned to be fairly clever when it comes to avoiding jail time (as is what tends to happen eventually to players of a black-market game). I would just ignore it. The fact that you weren't the number they meant to dial most likely scared the **** out of them.

Meh, you could always turn them into mindless pawns and put them in Iraq. No one would miss them if they died!

Well, I wouldn't.

Not if they had an incentive to make me fries at McDonalds.

Umm, don't do what this guy says. That would make you a prick. Pigs shouldn't be chasing down end-users of drugs. It's a waste of time, unless the pigs get stabbed. Then an angel would get its wings.

wat

Uhm, go to hell, stat?

/me shoots bob in the unfunny bone.

I don't find the idea of police officers getting stabbed funny. Unless it's on Reno 911. Then it would be hilarious.

Blunt as that was, stat's got a point. Using the police to chase down individual drug users is even more stupid and wasteful than having a War on Drugs to begin with.

Well, that's really an issue to take up with legislators. If you don't want people to be arrested or punished forf using drugs, only distributing it, then make drug use legal and keep distribution illegal. Then the police wouldn't arrest drug users.