Prank Calls

DEFTLEFTHAND · 01-01-2014 01:32PM #1

Did you ever make them in your youth? I'm honed in the art, my brother and I used to take the Local GAA annual and prank call all the sponser ads. Non stop until the Nokia ran out of credit.

In more recent years I've discovered the soundboard community, The Frank Garrett board in particular is a gem. I'm going to play you a clip of a soundboard of Frank Garrett ringing a lunatic in Missouri, beware that there is course language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnFZ39Fh-3w

cormie · 01-01-2014 01:38PM

One I did was looking up a random entry in the phone book, phoning him and in a panicky voice saying "Hi Frank it's me next door here in number (whatever the next digit to his house was), I've run out of toilet paper, is there any way you can drop in with some quick?", he sounded confused but cooperative and I quickly just said, ah thanks a lot, see you in a second and hung up. Would have been even better to have done it to someone in the same estate and been able to see the face of him and his neighbour when he called with some toilet paper in his hand

DEFTLEFTHAND · 01-01-2014 01:56PM

The trick is to discover a good victim and then relentlessly prank call them over a 2 to 3 hour period. The reactions are unreal if you're patient enough, and savy on the soundboard.

cormie · 01-01-2014 02:16PM

Wouldn't be interested in that at all, you don't know who you might be ringing and what's going on in their lives. We only did it as a bit of harmless fun growing up and that's all it every was thankfully.

Michael8000 · 01-01-2014 02:18PM

Best ever.

endacl · 01-01-2014 02:20PM

Prank? Doesn't just rhyme with ****.

Goat the dote · 01-01-2014 02:20PM

In my youth I rang a lads house and his mother answered. I asked was her refrigerator running. She went off to check. She came back and said yeah an I said "well you better run after it!"

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 01-01-2014 02:21PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txwEE4GK_9Y

DEFTLEFTHAND · 01-01-2014 02:30PM

Stern's Sal and Richard are the kings of organised prank calling. Can you imagine getting paid to make prank calls all day. Dream Job.,...

Their Tradio stuff is unreal.

Morph the Cat · 01-01-2014 02:33PM

I did this one a few years ago to Apache Pizza: http://www.dudemasters.com/prankcalls/apache.wav

More here: http://www.dudemasters.com/prankcalls.html

biko · 01-01-2014 05:00PM

I like the Johnny Explosa stuff.

wendell borton · 01-01-2014 05:21PM

cormie wrote: »

One I did was looking up a random entry in the phone book, phoning him and in a panicky voice saying "Hi Frank it's me next door here in number (whatever the next digit to his house was), I've run out of toilet paper, is there any way you can drop in with some quick?", he sounded confused but cooperative and I quickly just said, ah thanks a lot, see you in a second and hung up. Would have been even better to have done it to someone in the same estate and been able to see the face of him and his neighbour when he called with some toilet paper in his hand

SO THAT WAS YOU!!

ROCKMAN · 01-01-2014 06:26PM

Not a prank call per say,,but a few year ago was working in a pool hall, Every lunch time we be invaded by lads from the nearby school Anyway one day there was a young lad sitting at the counter talking to his mother on the phone ,It was easy to over hear that he was lying to her saying he was somewhere else ,Cue me to walk up beside him and in a nice loud clear voice, shout out "TWO PINTS OF CARLSBERG AND A GUINNESS WAS IT LADS"......

bear1 · 02-01-2014 01:11PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Did you ever make them in your youth? I'm honed in the art, my brother and I used to take the Local GAA annual and prank call all the sponser ads. Non stop until the Nokia ran out of credit.

In more recent years I've discovered the soundboard community, The Frank Garrett board in particular is a gem. I'm going to play you a clip of a soundboard of Frank Garrett ringing a lunatic in Missouri, beware that there is course language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnFZ39Fh-3w

I quite enjoyed the gun threat responses

Language isn't for the easily offended though

keithclancy · 02-01-2014 01:14PM

The Prank Call answering ones are fun as well.

A friend of mine had the same phone number for 20 years.

A Cab company started up which had a similar phone number.

Started getting between 5 and 10 calls as day looking for Taxis.

Contacted the taxi company and they said it wasn't their problem.

Eventually she just started answering the phone and said "Where from and to" "Ok we'll be there in 15 minutes"

Taxi company changed their phone number after a week.

bear1 · 02-01-2014 01:18PM

^^ I'd have started taking the fares

This one I find quite funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ud47jjWiY

rainbowdrop · 02-01-2014 01:21PM

Favourite prank call as a teenager:

Me: "Hello, could I speak to Mr Wall please?"

Random person: "I think you've the wrong number. There is no Mr Wall here"

M: "Could I speak to Mrs Wall then?"

R: "You've the wrong number"

M: "Are there any Wall's there?"

R: "NO"

M: "Well what the fcuk is holding up the roof then?"

*hangs up*

Banjo String · 02-01-2014 01:50PM

Derry man with tourettes ordering Chinese take away.

One of my favourites.

homeless student · 02-01-2014 02:26PM

Michael8000 wrote: »

Best ever.

fake. yer man laughing ruins it 2.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 02-01-2014 02:37PM

http://youtu.be/iPzQbO2prTM

Way way way too funny.
Johnny Explosa calls a bakery lol

careful_now · 02-01-2014 02:40PM

When I was about 11, myself, my sister and my cousin used to ring the Daz helpline pretending we needed help with awkward stains!

smcgiff · 02-01-2014 02:47PM

I cringe at the thought of them. Generally not my humour at all, so I've not clicked on any of the links.

BUT, I did find a couple of ones described above funny. The toilet paper one is funny. :pac:

nullzero · 02-01-2014 02:50PM

"Have I got a BO problem here?"

blacklilly · 02-01-2014 02:53PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The trick is to discover a good victim and then relentlessly prank call them over a 2 to 3 hour period. The reactions are unreal if you're patient enough, and savy on the soundboard.

I remeber baby sitting my nephew in my home house (whic is located in a quiet country area). Some absolute w&nkers pranked my house phone for at least 4 hours. I was absolutely terrifed. Not remotely funny no matter what way you look at it.

A once off prank is fine as long as it's nothing threatening.

dricko_lim · 02-01-2014 02:55PM

One of the many calls to my next door neighbour as a kid pretending to be from the ESB after he just went down to pay it telling him he was getting cut off for lack of payment. We could here him shouting through the walls down the phone saying he just paid it haha

Poor man thinking back we hounded him. The sisters prentending to be a neighbour who fancied him and he was up for it! and so on

Good times!

fullstop · 02-01-2014 03:07PM

careful_now wrote: »

When I was about 11, myself, my sister and my cousin used to ring the Daz helpline pretending we needed help with awkward stains!

That's very funny.

bear1 · 02-01-2014 03:08PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg1tpbbWf-c

Maybe not so much of a prank per se but wow

Matt_Trakker · 02-01-2014 03:46PM

This is the funniest I've ever heard.
Guy was getting annoyed with telemaketers so he trolled one one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfsdkGeMc8

Birneybau · 02-01-2014 03:54PM

I remember a documentary about this little yellow kid, he would always ring the local bar.

"Hi. I'm looking for Amanda. Last name Hugandkiss" and so on.

Moomat · 02-01-2014 03:58PM

Rang crimeline years ago while the show was happening. I was determined to see could you get a reaction from the Guards in the background. Put on a stupid accent and in as roundabout way as possible I told him I wanted to claim the nice big yellow consaw they had just displayed. Kept it going for a while with the most ridiculous answers to his questions. Eventually I said, look, why all the questions, I just want to claim my prize?
With that he exploded down the phone about it being stolen property, not a competition, what sort of gob****e was I, wasting Guards valuable time etc...
I didn't see steam coming from anyone's ears in the background either!

Ush1 · 02-01-2014 04:02PM

The Rubber Bandits did some funny ones. The one about bursting the balloon in the bank was classic.

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