I don't remember *69 ever giving us problems on the very few pranks we executed, but maybe people don't care so much when they know exactly who called them: some stupid kids who just got far more pleasure from that than you did fleeting annoyance. =P
when i was little we were on what used to be called a party line. which meant, among other things, anyone on the same like could pick up the phone at any time and hear whatever conversation if any, was already going on. you could even join in and talk to each other, like a free conferance call. only with other phones on the same party life of course, but in really small villages that might be almost everybody.
dialing *67 used to block people from *69'ing you....they could always trace back by calling an operator but a police report would be required for telephone company to release the info...plus a $5 or $10 charge for the request even if the company did not release the info
This thread also reminds me of my first internet connection a few years ago...I was using "pay as you go" style cards for dial up....it sure is a pain in the ass to set up when you still have pulse line service (yes..I still refuse to pay extra for touch tone service to this day)
I hate prank calling. the first time I tried it my friend and I were arrested cuz we always started whispering our nicknames which were "BANDIT" and "RYDER" (give me a break man, we were fucking twelve) and the lady thought we said "bind her and ride her." she freaked out and called the cops.
THAT'S A CLASSIC! :smilielol5: we never got in that type of trouble. we got an ideal from a george carlin lp. we wrote up a scrip and, were able to drag our prank calls for minutes on end. only one time, did a woman catch on that it was a prank call. there is the television program 'crank yankers.' we were living that program 40 years before it ever got on tv! :drool5:
i really never played with the phone,i knew i would get the asswhipping of the century if and when the word would get back to my parents he he he
I remember being a bored kid making harmless prank calls. One time we called some random number and pretended to be drug dealers arranging a big shipment. This obviously old man played along, and was so good natured about it that (remembering the number/pattern) we called him a few times a year for... years. He always played along, laughed, etc. "Hey I saw on the news something about a heroin epidemic, I want in on that, can you get me a few pounds of that?" Funny to remember, and we were never rude to him, he was just too good natured and funny too, because he hadn't a clue about the slang but didn't let that slow him down any. Another time we decided this kid down the street needed a cab, so we sent one cab company after another, using everyone in the phone book, to his house. But it was funny at one point seeing a mini traffic jam of cabs on this dead-end street. Dumb, yeah I know. We didn't have "clever" yet back then.
we would order 2 pizzas to 2 buildings side by side....when buddy attempted to deliver the first pizza we would steal the second pizza from his car its a variation of phone prankery
People decades ago would call up a restaurant near closing time, order a nice meal to go, then not pick it up. Then they'd pick through the garbage bin after closing and get a free dinner. Those were the days before businesses sprayed the garbage bins with chlorine to keep animals and people away. Also a time when garbage picking wasn't a criminal offense like it is today. .
