A series of unusual events

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yeah, yeah, so I changed the title a bit. It fits my little story better this way.

Well, I had a good time on my little outing with the most beautiful woman of all time Monday. Bright, sunny afternoon led into a wonderful early evening dinner and conversation. Apparantly enjoyable on both sides, as we are going to go out again.

But not soon.

As i got back home, I noticed I felt a little too light headed to be explained away just by my happy giddiness. Plus, I was a bit too sore for it to have been just work aches. About 3:00 in the morning, I woke up both burning up and shivering. Yipper. I got the flu. Damn, hit like a ton of bricks. Surprised me how sudden it was. So, I had to tell her and hope she actually got the flu shot this year. She should be online soon to chat and then I’ll know.

::sigh::

Anyways, not terrible, just Eccl 9:11 having fun with me.

Well, there I was just a little bit ago, halfway dozing off in the easy chair I have set up as my computer chair when I

HEARD SOMEONE BEHIND ME!

:eek:

I live alone, 2nd floor, doors deadbolted. Yes, I have a back window open, but there’s no way to get in that one without an extension ladder. So, I figured it must have just been random air currents moving some papers or something…

Then, about thirty minutes later, I was slightly in a daze again, just about to drop off to sleep with my invisible alien ghost house guest to watch over me, when

::POUND POUND POUND:: on my door

:eek:

“Police! Open up!”

Totally flushed and flummuxed even, I check my peephole, yep, badges, uniforms, two guys. I open up and they say, “We’re responding to your call about a disturbance.”

“What call?”

“Does anyone else live at this address?”

“No.”

“We received a call complaing of a person being harrassed from this address. This is #### NW## isn’t it?”

“Yes, but I placed no call.”

“Has anyone else been in your residence that may have placed a call?”

“No.”

“Hmm. Well then, are you aware of there having been any disturbance perhaps in the courtyard?”

“No. I’ve been dozing off a bit. I caught the flu.”

They looked at each other and said “Thank you, then.” and started to walk off.

“Um,” I say to them, “Could you tell me what this is all about?”

“You know as much as we do right now, sir. Sorry to disturb you. Hope you get feeling better.”
I live in one of the quietest, most genteel, small, almost exclusive complexes around here. Sure, it’s possible that 911 got a line mixed up. Or, someone called the station without going thru 911 and gave an incorrect address. Or, maybe I missed somthing happening right outside my door.

Weird.

Add it all together, and it becomes obvious that I am currently the butt of some supernatural, transdiminsional practical jokes, ala Job by Heinlein.

:dubious:

2

Do you have a cordless phone? My parents have had cops show up three times because of phone interference. Sometimes we would turn on the phone and hear entire conversations of people we had no idea who they were. After hearing some of the convos we were glad not to know.

3

Yeah, for some odd reason, I have two cordless phones.

The 900Mhz has the answering machine in it and doesn’t get used as a phone, but the handset is on. The 2.4Ghz is the one i keep by me.

4

Come to think of it, yesterday (or the day before), I got a call of nothing but static and Outer Limits type noises which wouldn’t let me use my phone till I physically unplugged it and replugged it. The caller ID said 111-111-1111.

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Not to put the kibosh on your possible explanation, but the police specifically said that they’d received a call “complaining of a person being harrassed.”

It would be a coincidence of Douglas Adamsian proportions if random static from your malfunctioning cordless phone managed to sound like a human being holding a coherent conversation with a 911 operator, asking them to come to your very address.

Hope you feel better soon, dude. Lotsa fluids, lotsa sleep.

6

Good point. Maybe a line crossing or something, tho.

Whatever happened, it was weird. I hope whoever needed the help got it, now that you bring that up. (My logic is uncertain where my cold is concerned.)

7

I believe **MissTake **is suggesting that a neighbor placed the call, but due to cell phone cross-talk, the call went out on NoCLueBoy’s line, and showed up as his call at 911 HQ.

IANAEE, but this theory makes sense to me. Or the Most Beautiful Woman has a bizarre sense of humor.

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I bet the phone call was from the future.
You are going to have a disturbance in your apartment soon.
Either that or, while in your flu haze you were yelling out the window. The 911 operator got confused when the caller gave your address as the place it was coming from, not the place that was being harrassed.

9

How dare you take out the woman I love!

10

Dude, the invisible alien predator which got into your home through the open window used its advanced technology to impersonate a human voice and called the police. This was, of course, to get you to lower your guard.

So, whatever you do, you not going to want to sit in a room and reduce your situational awareness. I figure you should be safe as long as you’re not looking at a monitor…

11

Let’s review this:

Then…

So you have the flu, you were light headed and obviously feverish. You thought you heard somone in your room during this, but were mistaken. Then the police show up saying you phoned in a disturbance.

I think you hallucinated due to the fever, then became momentarily delerious and made the call yourself to the police, but you don’t remember it because you were delerious from the fever.

It’s a possibility. You were sick. VERY sick. High fevers can make people experience and do strange things (I cite this thread since it contains experiences of people who have had high temperature fevers.).

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Those are all great theories, esp the one based on possible realities.

But, I like the time travel one the best. Makes the most sense.

On a side note, I wonder why the police didn’t ask to come in? Granted, my door was wide open, they could easily see inside, but not all the way in. Perhaps my flu addled state of mind was a deciding factor for them.

Or… maybe they saw the time travelling predator in his light bending suit and decided to just back off.

My real guess? They could see in the front of my place, they could tell I was obviously sick, they decided I wasn’t holding anyone against their will. I did notice that one of them went back to the car while the other kind of scoped out the inner courtyard.

If it was me calling, that’s my first blackout since I stopped speeding 20 yrs ago. If it was a crossed line, someone is upset by the slow or non response of OKC’s finest.

13

Weird. My wife came home yesterday to find the police looking in our windows. They said a silent distress alarm had been called in, something that requires a specific code sequence, yet we’d not done so. It would seem you and I share a phantom.

14

There’s a thread in GQ asking about a relationship between horniness and impending illness.

NoClueBoy, maybe this helps explain your instant, overwhelming attraction to this woman! You were getting sick!

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:eek:

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Just hope you get well! You don’t want someone like that woman to get away! :smiley:
I haven’t had the flu in years, and I rarely get colds, maybe once every other year.

OTOH, I fought a battle with kidney stones for almost six years, until the stones won the war and the surgeon took my right kidney out. :frowning:
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This is your mother speaking!* Eat lightly, drink plenty of water and juice! Do you hear me young man?

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I’ve had this same call/number at least 5 times in the last week.