Prank Calls

[Valiea]

I work at a video rental place.. Recently I got a call from some teenagers asking what my favorite porno was. We do rent adult movies out.

My response? "The one with the girl, and the biggest dick she can find" Laughs were had. Could I have gotten in trouble if this was a legit customer, probably. Did I think it was a legit customer? Not a chance. They were all giggling in the background so I decided to say something funny for them. Well, at the time.

[Cephilia]

Well, I think I was 15 or something when I last time prank called someone... I usually wouldn't have, but seriously, could YOU resist calling someone named Tauren and asking them to come tank for your group?

[Deleted]

I (along with my friends) once convinced a random guy I'd shagged his wife.

Oh. And Battletoads.

[Adam Jensen]

When I was young and stupid, I called a spanish hotline and I think I called them stupid in spanish (yeah yeah, I was like 8, it was dumb I know.) They called back an hour later and yelled at my parents in spanish.

My parents never found out why.

[Neurodilation]

A while back I got a call from some super-stoned, ghetto-fabulous fellow who was looking for someone by some name I didn't know. The first time he called, I told him he had the wrong number and hung up. The second time he called, he began getting adamant and insisted that he had the right number and that I was "playin'" him. I hung up on him that time too. When he called the third time, I decided it was my turn to screw with him.

So I busted out the Arnold Schwarzenegger sound board and started responding to everything he said with it. Dude had no clue. He ended up getting so mad and went round and round with "Arnold" for about 15 minutes before he hung up on me in an expletive-filled rage. I nearly killed myself laughing. He did not call back.

[Deleted]

I realize really fast when someone is making a prank on me on the phone.

If I don't recognize a number, I say "hello, who is this?". Most likely here they respond with a common name, which leads to two possible outcomes:
-I don't know the name "Sorry, you have wrong number" and I close.
-I know someone with same name, to which I ask "Which [name]?". If an unappropriate response is given, I close.

Prank calls are a waste of time, especially if done to emergency calls. A report in 2011 in Romania showed A THIRD of all calls at the ambulance system were prank calls. My their ignorance and stupidity, those people made the ambulances run late to actual real cases, thus killing people.

So, that said, I consider prank calls a plague on society done by someone who is brain-dead. Because only someone like that can delay ambulances thus possibly ensuring a human death.

That's why most people consider prank calling a life saving service a crime. A prank call is only funny when nobody gets hurt in the end...assuming the people you are calling don't have a bad day, you should be able to laugh on both sides off the phone in the end.

[Deleted]

Not real, but still a great prank call.

[Valiea]

That was hilarious SmokeBlader.

"FIVE MINUTE NOW!!! COME IN!! I have everything ready!"