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Fun prank phone calls as a kid....before caller ID

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TheNinja

Lifer
Did you ever prank call people prior to caller ID? Here are my favorites as a Jr. High kid


Me: Is your refrigerator running?
Them: Yes
Me: You better catch it!! - LOL


Me: I'm calling from *** phone company and we'll be working on your lines, if the phone rings please don't pick it up or someone could get hurt
Them: OK
(Now 2 things happened)
Either call back and have their phone ring for like 15 minutes straight (usually old ladies didn't pick it back up)
Or they pick it up and you scream as loud as you can in their ear.....LOL


My Favorite
Me: Hello, ya I think your cat is in my garage
(From here you get MANY scenarios)
#1 - Easy one
Them: Sorry I don't have a cat
Me: Then I don't have a garage.....LOL

#2 - Fun one
Them: Who is this?
Me: Your neighbor to the north
Them: Jimmy?
Me: Ya
Them: Sorry, I will come and get our cat
(I LOL picturing them going to the neighbor asking about their cat)

#3 - Also Fun
Them: Who is this
Me: Your neighbor to the north
Them: I don't have a neighbor to the north
Me: Well then I don't have neighbor to the south!!....LOL
 
I still do this sometimes, I called my local McDonalds and asked to speak to Ron... It took them a while to figure it out.
 
Is Haywood there?
Haywood Jablome?

Is Jack there?
Jack Mehoff?

Is Mike there?
Mike Hunt?
 
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Many years ago, way before caller ID:

1. Called 911, bulsh!t'd with the person who answered.
2. Hung up
3. phone immediately rang again, PD was sending someone over
4. found out 911 has locating services
5. got my ass beat
 
Evadman said:
Many years ago, way before caller ID:

1. Called 911, bulsh!t'd with the person who answered.
2. Hung up
3. phone immediately rang again, PD was sending someone over
4. found out 911 has locating services
5. got my ass beat
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Deserved
 
A friend of mine was big in finding someone named Robin in the phone book and pretend that he's Batman.
 
we used to call the Lords, went something like this:

us: Hi, is this the Lords?
them: Yes, it is.
us: THEN LET US PRAY

not as funny now as it was back then
 
ViviTheMage said:
I have to admit...those are pretty stupid, haha. Elementary grade humor maybe.
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Ya, maybe we were 4-6 grade or something and would do it when my parents weren't around. We thought it was hilarious.

I grew up in a small town so we knew people's names. We'd call and say we were the neighbor xxxxx and ask if we could come over real quick and borrow a cup of sugar for a recipe (this was common to borrow stuff back then rather than run to the store). Then we'd laugh just picturing the neighbor waiting for someone to show up for a cup of sugar and possibly calling them back asking why they havne't come yet. We were morons.
 
indian guy: hello, who is dees?
me: hello my name is agent smith with immigration services. your wife's visa has been denied.
indian guy: NOOOOOOO!
me: lol
 
Mine was the Prince Albert in a can prank...

Caller: Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
Recipient: Yes we do.
Caller: You'd better let him out!

Hilarious laughter ensued......at least on our end of the line. 🙄

The whole "prank" has a Wiki entry.
 
ViviTheMage said:
I have to admit...those are pretty stupid, haha. Elementary grade humor maybe.
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No kidding. While in elementary school and when over at my cousins, who had a second phone upstairs -- almost unheard of in those days when you couldn't even own a phone and had to lease them from Ma Bell -- my cousins and I would do the "is your refrigerator running" one and another, perhaps even stupider:

"Hello, do you have Prince Albert In a Can?" <----- Brand of pipe tobacco

"Well, then, let him out!"

Slower times, you know? <shrug>
 
While in elementary school and when over at my cousins, who had a second phone upstairs -- almost unheard of in those days when you couldn't even own a phone and had to lease them from Ma Bell
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My father worked for Ohio Bell for 42 yrs.

In the 60's we had a phone in every room and I had a separate "childrens line" in my bedroom.

The origional idea behind the children's line was because my Dad was missing his overtime calls.

I proved I could tie up two phone lines at one time and he still kept missing the calls for OT.

The children's line lasted for @ 1.5 yrs. :'(
 
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