Have you had an "obscene" phone call? What did you do about it?

Question

The two funniest were (1) right after we'd had a fire at the house and I was waiting for a call from the insurance company. The fellow started in on what he'd like to do with me, and I told him, "Get off my line right now. I'm waiting for an important call." (2) My son was visiting me when the phone rang. Once more, someone started telling me what he'd like to do. I handed the phone to my son, and said, "Jim, I want you to listen to this." He said, "Hello? -- Mom, there's no one there."

Goldwing, I don't think I want to know what those cigarettes are for! (I quit them the end of January, so Eve T and I have a bond of sorts.)

Answer 1

One of my dear friends lost her husband years ago and got a pug dog (name "Pugsly") to keep her company. She called me one day to chat and about the time my phone began ringing, her door bell rang. She set the phone down on the window seat next to her pug dog and answered her door. Well, if any of you know how a pug breathes, it sounds like it could be a human breathing heavily. I listened and asked who this was (the dog never answered). I kept hearing that heavy breathing and grunting noise so I finally hung up. It wasn't until she called back and we talked that I realized what had happened. So, yes I have received what I thought was an obscene phone call, but it was from a dog, so I really couldn't report it!

Answer 2

My parents were plagued by nuissance phone calls for over 20 years, my father one night blew a whistle in the phone. About 48 hours later the phone rang in the middle of the night and someone blew a louder whistle in mum's ear.

The best one was though after she died, apparently he/shedidn't know because they called up and said my mum's name and I said if this is the funny phone caller don't bother anymore she's dead and I can trace you and I will. No more calls.

I get the occasional idiot who misdials the area code and calls long distance to harass, I think it's more he/she's dyslexic or drunk.

I do report it to my phone provider and if it's frequent enough I put a call trace on it.

Call display has put a stop to most harassing phone calls unless they dial under private name private number. The internet phone calls are a pain in the butt tho.

Answer 3

I once answered the phone in the middle of the night. Of course I had just been woken up, so my voice was hoarse as I said "Hello".

A gentleman with a strong French accent proceeded to tell me exactly what he was going to do with me as soon as his plane landed. Being a grandmother, and without "beaus" for a few good years, I listened avidly right up until this obviously horny gentleman required a response from his "amour". When I told him that I was very sorry to inform him that my name not only was NOT Amelia, but that I was probably old enough to be his mother, he began apologizing profusely before he suddenly hung up in shame.

I have always wondered if he was quite as excited by the time he got home to his Amelia?

Answer 4

Through the years there have been several. I used to keep hanging up. Later I got a whistle and blew it into the phone. My stepmother from Texas told me what a friend of hers did once and it cracked me up so the next time I got a call I did it. In a real strong southern accent I said: Come on, come on. He hung up and never called back.

Answer 5

my area of the city in 1991 was the only area in the city testing caller ID. I bought one for $50.00. One evening a dirty old man called me and proceeded to tell me I had won the lottery, and boy the prize. Well I listened closely so I could ID his voice. His name was loud and clear on the ID. AT 2 am I called him back and told him his street address (looked it up in the phone book) and his name and said you ever make another obscene phone call I'm comin' down there and shoot your knee caps off and I ain't sayin' I'm a good shot. I'll bet he thought about it before he did it again. My little great aunt would get scared to death if someone called and hung up or just breathed. I thought about her and maybe just maybe I stopped that perv.

Answer 6

Several years ago I was working at a shipyard doing logistics. I worked by myself and one day at lunch my phone rang. A woman started talking very sexy. It wasn't my wife. I just sat and listened as she talked and was obviously pleasuring herself. Then she cried out and said, "Oh Ronnie!! YES! YES!" I sat for a minute then said, "Ah, this isn't Ronnie." "It's not? Oh, well....." silence for a bit ,then "...bye." This would happen several times a week around lunch time but she never said Ronnie again. She'd just talk dirty and tell me what she was doing. As quick as it started, it ended.
About 25 years ago, I was stationed at a shore base and had duty one Friday night. I was the only one in the building and had just come out of the shower with only my towel on. As I walked towards the duty room a phone rang in the office. I stepped in and picked up the phone. There was a rather drunk woman on the phone. She said, "Hi! What are you up to?" Thinking it was one of the woman sailors, I said, "Well, I just got out of the shower and am getting ready to hit my rack." The woman asked, "Are you NAKED?" I laughed and said, "No, I'm just wearing a towel." I realized it was NOT one of my female troops. The conversation went down hill from there. The woman had obviously mis-dialed thinking she was calling her husband. I wished I could have taped it. She became VERY triple X rated. It was really pretty funny thinking back on it.

Answer 7

There were a few years ago when I still had a land line. I found that the solution for those calls was the same as the one for handling telemarketing calls: a little sports whistle next to the phone. Helps with your respiratory health as well.

Answer 8

What did I do about it? I just said; " hold that thought, I'll be right back, let me grab a cigarette." ( not really, when I lived in Dallas a man used to call me all of the time and even leave gross messages on my answering machine. I was scared to death! I finally figured out I could do 'number redial', called his number, gave it to the police. This was years ago....they said they couldn't prove that it was him calling from that phone number. He quit though thank goodness.) I quit smoking 2 yrs ago.

Answer 9

When I worked at Sears several years ago, we got a breather. Thinking back, I think the employees got more fun out of it than the breather did. They would say, "That's disgusting" and then hang up on him, laughing after they did. He called back and they did similar things several times. They finally got him to stop by putting him on hold and not going back to him.

Answer 10

Pretend to be a police investigator

Tell them that someone was killed at this address and you need to ask them a few questions

People freak out and panic at the fear of this happening.

If they hang up star 69 and enjoy the stories