Weird phonecalls

dr gonzo · 07-06-2011 11:20PM

Our housephone used to get calls at odd hours for months, there was always quiet on the other end, they were odd to say the least, especially since they were going on for so long. So we finally call the phone company who went to apparently great lengths to find out our number was stuck in some sort of infinite loop in one of their computers, case closed and not very creepy in the end.

Theres another strange one. Every single new years eve for the last three years i get texts and calls from some slighty deranged drunk girl trying to win back/crucify some lad ive never heard of and every single time i tell her she has the wrong number.

...for three years, talk about carrying a torch/grudge and how she still hasnt deleted my number is a pertinent question too

languagenerd · 07-06-2011 11:33PM

Just remembered, last year we kept getting phonecalls on the house-phone asking about the "grey-footed geese" we had apparently advertised in Buy & Sell. Some of the messages on the answering machine were hilarious - one man with a thick Connaught accent forgot his own phone number and hung up.

Never did find out whether it was an elaborate prank or just a misprint in Buy & Sell...

Foxhound38 · 07-06-2011 11:51PM

I'm a property manager so I get plenty of them - just last week I got a voicemail threat from a lad I was kicking out of a flat (seems he was surprised to hear that I was serious about the 28 days notice I gave him subsequent to 2 garda raids on his flat, a callout for domestic abuse and 5 weeks unpaid rent) that he would be waiting with a hammer the next time I entered the premises and only one of us would be leaving. Of course, he started the voice message with "It's ______ _______, from flat _ in ______ road" - good to see a lad not wanting to waste Garda time, the stupid bollix...

Cupcake_Crisis · 08-06-2011 12:05AM

I got a really weird phone call off some absolute scaldie telling me he lost all his apples. He asked me buy him some more apples becaue he had no money left and he needed the nutrients. Tbh I was just really impressed that the sap could pronounce 'nutrients'

Kevin Duffy · 08-06-2011 12:07AM

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I got a really weird phone call off some absolute scaldie telling me he lost all his apples. He asked me buy him some more apples becaue he had no money left and he needed the nutrients. Tbh I was just really impressed that the sap could pronounce 'nutrients'

D'ye give him any apples? Seems unfair to ignore a cry for help from the apple-deprived.

Cupcake_Crisis · 08-06-2011 12:13AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

D'ye give him any apples? Seems unfair to ignore a cry for help from the apple-deprived.

I refuse to provide scaldies with apples. I'll not be responsible for prolonging their lives.

parker kent · 08-06-2011 12:14AM

I wasn't the victim of one, but actually gave somebody a weird call by accident.

I was going over to my friend Laura's one night. She didn't want me to ring the doorbell as she was having housemate issues and instead wanted me to ring when I got there. Her friend then heard it was me on the phone and said "remember he can't get in without the password "Fúck me hard". Big laughs etc etc.

So then I got there and clicked down to L on my phone and hit call. As soon as it was answered I said "Oooh fúck me hard!". Which didn't get a response. To which I went "Laura I'm outside!" in a quizzical manner. At that moment I looked down and spotted that I had in fact rang another girl called Laura who I once worked with on a college project. All I could hear on the other end was a confused, slightly freaked out "Who is this?

". This was a few years later so she probably had a new phone and hadn't saved my number. Cue panic from me and I immediately hung up and rang the actual Laura I was going to see!

About 2 minutes later my phone rang and a male voice was on the phone giving me all sorts of abuse whilst not paying attention to my "I dialled the wrong Laura...the wrong Laura".

So yeah, that went well :pac:

Kevin Duffy · 08-06-2011 12:16AM

parker kent wrote: »

I wasn't the victim of one, but actually gave somebody a weird call by accident.

I was going over to my friend Laura's one night. She didn't want me to ring the doorbell as she was having housemate issues and instead wanted me to ring when I got there. Her friend then heard it was me on the phone and said "remember he can't get in without the password "Fúck me hard". Big laughs etc etc.

So then I got there and clicked down to L on my phone and hit call. As soon as it was answered I said "Oooh fúck me hard!". Which didn't get a response. To which I went "Laura I'm outside!" in a quizzical manner. At that moment I looked down and spotted that I had in fact rang another girl called Laura who I once worked with on a college project. All I could hear on the other end was a confused, slightly freaked out "Who is this? ". This was a few years later so she probably had a new phone and hadn't saved my number. Cue panic from me and I immediately hung up and rang the actual Laura I was going to see!

About 2 minutes later my phone rang and a male voice was on the phone giving me all sorts of abuse whilst not paying attention to my "I dialled the wrong Laura...the wrong Laura".

So yeah, that went well :pac:

And that is the case for the defence m'lud.

parker kent · 08-06-2011 12:32AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

And that is the case for the defence m'lud.

I would have a pretty iron clad case given I had eye witnesses and phone records to back me up :pac:

jimbobaloobob · 08-06-2011 12:36AM

sunflower27 wrote: »

Actually, this thread reminds me of something that happened about 10 years ago in Galway. I was walking past a phone booth (they still had them back then) and the phone was ringing.

I know it sounds a bit like a movie, so I said to my friend, should I answer it? She said, yeah go on. So I answer the phone and say hello and some guy asks to speak to someone. I replied (in my Australian accent) 'Sorry, I think you have the wrong number, this is Sydney, Australia'.

He screamed 'WTFFFFFFFFFF' and immediately hung up.

Ah, good times

i like this thread great laughs reading it. this one reminded me of being on the aran islands 13 years ago, i was on the phone in the phone box when it started ringing even though i was on it. Told the folks id ring them back. Hung it up and it still rang so i answered it. Lady on the phone asked me to get off the phone so she could make a call properly. Said she kept hearing me on the other line. (i can only imagine there was some fiddling going on to allow her make calls out through the phone box number)

Barnsleyfc · 08-06-2011 01:09AM

1 day about eight years ago got upwards of 100 by someone claiming to be Colin McRae with a crashed Subaru in a thick northern accent! another time my mother answered my phone and an elderly sounding English lady kept saying you probably don't know who I am repeatedly before hanging up!

superrdave · 08-06-2011 02:04AM

languagenerd wrote: »

Just remembered, last year we kept getting phonecalls on the house-phone asking about the "grey-footed geese" we had apparently advertised in Buy & Sell. Some of the messages on the answering machine were hilarious - one man with a thick Connaught accent forgot his own phone number and hung up.

Never did find out whether it was an elaborate prank or just a misprint in Buy & Sell...

surely an elaborate prank. i'd guess 50% of the ads in buy and sell are pranks. tractors? with dublin numbers? riiiiiiiight....

languagenerd · 08-06-2011 02:09AM

superrdave wrote: »

surely an elaborate prank. i'd guess 50% of the ads in buy and sell are pranks. tractors? with dublin numbers? riiiiiiiight....

I know, I live in Dublin so I don't know where they thought we were raising these geese :P. But no-one ever owned up to it! Surely if you went to that amount of trouble for a prank, you'd take the credit for it?

parker kent · 08-06-2011 02:39PM

superrdave wrote: »

surely an elaborate prank. i'd guess 50% of the ads in buy and sell are pranks. tractors? with dublin numbers? riiiiiiiight....

Best I ever saw was a hat for sale that had been worn by Mel Gibson :pac:

Speaking of weird phonecalls, somebody rang my parents housephone once looking for Jackie Russell, then they barked and hung up. As you do.

Smiley G · 08-06-2011 02:56PM

3 weeks running i got a text around 5pm on the friday asking if i was going down to Quinns tonight.
i didnt recognise number so simply ignored it, figured they'd find out their mistake once down the pub. One of the nights the same number text me around midnight saying they were in Quinns and couldnt find me

I have never drank in Quinns...

Lando Griffin · 08-06-2011 03:29PM

I once did this to my OH when she rang…
OH “Hello Lando”
Me “No Lando, Me Diametri, ( Country name ) refugee.
OH “What?”
Me “Me Diametri ( Country name ) refugee.
OH “This is Landos phone, can you get Lando please”
Me “ No Lando phone, you want buy phone?, I have many phone”
OH “Have you stolen this phone, I will call the Guards”
Me “No stolen phone, you want buy phone?
OH “Right, I am ringing the Guards”
Me “I do not know this Guards”
OH “Police Ok!”
Me “Please? What you speaking now, what phone do you need?”
OH “POLICE you know ne na, arrest you”
Me “Nooo, I am refugee, I have many children to feed”
OH “I couldn’t give a f**k, you s**mbag”
Me “You Irish, you very rude, you need phone?”
Oh hangs up.

Witchie · 08-06-2011 03:43PM

My brother and I used to have phone numbers with only the last digit different so one day I rang him and left a voicemail coz he wasnt answering. while I had been ringing him i could hear a call coming in on my phone so after leaving an irrate message telling him to ring me back, I hung up and saw I now had a voicemail message as well as a missed call.........from myself.

No I am not blonde.

I also was walking through my town one day and the phone box phone started ringing and I answered it. Some guy told me that the white van across the road had a bomb in it. Living in a border town where there had been many bomb scares, I wasnt taking a risk and rang the guards. Turned out the van was a mate of mine's boyfriends and he wasnt too happy that it was towed off and searched! Ooops.

chickenbutt · 08-06-2011 03:46PM

I used to get loads of voicemails off this one woman who would just talk for 5 minutes in Spanish but I wouldn't have a clue what she said. Then one day I heard a message from her but in English saying that she was praying for so and so (whoever she confused me for). The calls stopped after that.

I get loads now from an unknown but it's always silence on the other end, except once I just heard a man laughing.

Kevin Duffy · 08-06-2011 03:46PM

Smiley G wrote: »

3 weeks running i got a text around 5pm on the friday asking if i was going down to Quinns tonight.
i didnt recognise number so simply ignored it, figured they'd find out their mistake once down the pub. One of the nights the same number text me around midnight saying they were in Quinns and couldnt find me

I have never drank in Quinns...

The immutable laws of the Universe dictate that this was someone very hot and available of whatever gender you fancy, who tried to get you to the pub to fill you with drink and get with you, but you ignored them....

Alter-Ego · 08-06-2011 05:23PM

A few years ago for a short period of time I kept getting calls from scummy sounding teenagers inquiring about fake ID's. After a few calls of just saying no, I eventually started giving them the number of the local garda station saying it was the number of a solid guy who'd do them a good deal.

When I was about 16, me and a few mates would sit across the road from a phone box and call it when people were passing by, if they stopped to answer we'd go into the whole "Leave the package. We're watching you, no messing about" spiel. Some people got a bit freaked.

bambera · 08-06-2011 05:50PM

Was in my granny's house one day when the phone rang. Turns out she'd been getting the same phone call from two kids (a sister and brother) every few days.

So the phone rang again and this time I answered it but I didn't talk. They were yapping on for a bit then I said to my Granny (loud enough for them to hear as well) That I had it all recorded and would be passing it on to the Gardí. They hung up pretty quickly. Few minutes later the phone rings again and it's the little girl saying that her baby brother had accidently dialled the number before. I gave her hell and told her I knew she was lying and we had her number and knew where she lived. At least they never called again.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 08-06-2011 05:56PM

0.40 some old dear keeps ringing and looking for leroy lmao-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BACzShLv6RM

Dangerous Man · 08-06-2011 06:05PM

A few odd calls alright. Many years ago some drunken woman rang me up looking for sexy time. I explained to her that I wasn't who she thought I was, but she was still game. I wasn't game. She was drunk, and obviously not the sort of woman my family would approve of; I turned her down, and went about my day.

jonnygiles · 08-06-2011 06:13PM

Well a month or two ago the pay phone was ringing outside dandelion bar on a saturday night. I decided to answer it and the other guy on the phone asked me if i saw any "suspicious woman" walking around the street at the time. I had no idea what he was on about, eventually he said that there was a prostitute working there and the guy on the phone was her father!

Rubberlegs · 08-06-2011 06:16PM

Dunno if you would class it as weird, but about 8 yrs back, I kept getting phonecalls looking for an Una Twomey, not me. I could tell by the numbers that were ringing that it was a different part of the country altogether. I patiently explained umpteen times, no, thats not me, you have the wrong number. I always got the feeling though, the people ringing didn't believe me. One day, I was so fed up, I just asked this particular guy to stop ringing, I'm f**king NOT Una f**king Twomey, and hung up. He kept ringing back, so I just cut him off. I swear if I could have got my hands on Una, I would have choked her:mad:. About a week later, a woman rang. In desparation, I told her the story, told her my name, where I lived, said Una must have a number similar to me. That put an end to it:). Then randomly, several years later, I got a call looking for her again. So, Una, if you're out there, what's the story, were ya on the run or something? Did ya think it was funny giving em all my number:mad:??

Mike 1972 · 08-06-2011 06:17PM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

obviously not the sort of woman my family would approve of

You dont have to tell them everything you know

Fluorescence · 08-06-2011 10:37PM

languagenerd wrote: »

I know, I live in Dublin so I don't know where they thought we were raising these geese :P. But no-one ever owned up to it! Surely if you went to that amount of trouble for a prank, you'd take the credit for it?

It's more fun this way :P

>_>

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Crap.

languagenerd · 08-06-2011 10:40PM

fluorescence wrote: »

It's more fun this way :P

>_>

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Crap.

Haha, if it was you, you'd have put my mobile, not the house phone! Nice try :P

Fluorescence · 08-06-2011 10:42PM

I'll show you! *trots off to buy and sell*

languagenerd · 08-06-2011 10:43PM

fluorescence wrote: »

I'll show you! *trots off to buy and sell*

You forgot to quote, your post just looks odd now

Weird phonecalls

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