ok first of all, NEVER dial *69 to call back a harrasing or obscene caller.
if you do, you will be guilty of the same crime.
call your local phone company. they have several options available.
i know Bell Atlantic will change your phone number for you one time free
there are other services available, like call block which blocks all calls from certain numbers, you don’t even have to know the number that is harrassing you
OpalCat suggested you dial *57
it’s a good sugestion, but that should really only be used if the phone calls are threatening. if they’re just annoying, then call your local telephone company
I’ve always found that an airhorn works well. Not only do they stop bugging you at all hours, but I bet they’ll think twice about harassing someone else.
When I lived in the dorms, we had every service the phone company offered, free of charge. Most of these services were pretty new. Once, late at night, I was awakened by a call from someone who hung up right after I said “Hello”. I *69ed it, and some fratboy answered. I told him I’d used callback and to stop calling me.
Sure enough, a minute later my phone rang again. Apparently this dude had decided to play phone games. So, I *69ed him again. This time he was apparently intent on not answering. But, he’d left his answering machine on. “Hi, you have reached 785…” At that point I heard the phone get picked up and hung up hastily, with a faint, “oh shit” in the background. What a maroon. Never heard from him again.
I can recall one other obscene call in the dorms. A guy called and, in a faggy voice, said, “Do you wanna jack off?” It was about 3 AM, and I was awake anyway, so I just said, “You’re lucky I was awake, dude. Go to bed.” He meekly said “ok” and hung up.
I really like Ayesha’s trick. I haven’t been plagued with obscene calls for quite a while, about the same time as I got an unlisted number, in fact. But when I got the calls it was usually late at night and I was too groggy to remember * whatsis.
My tactis probably wasn’t the smartest in the world, but hey, I’m cranky when awakened and it worked: critiquing the call for style, vocabulary and content.
(obscene suggestion)
“Well, that isn’t very original.” “You call this an obscene phone call? Pathetic, just pathetic…”
I have received one obscene phonecall in my life. At seven a.m. on a Saturday morning.
I was practically asleep when I answered the phone, and a panting man asked me what color panties I was wearing. My answer was “Oh, you have got to be fucking kidding me. Get a life, idiot.”
Original, no. But he did hang up and never bothered me again.
The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarous tribe now stacking wood at her nubile feet, when the strong, clear voice of the poetic and heroic Handsomas roared, “Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you’ll feel my steel through your last meal.”
I’ve never used *69, but according to the latest flurry of commercials, it no longer just calls the person back–supposedly it now gives you the phone number of the last caller and gives you the option of calling the number or not.
Oddly enough, I’ve never gotten an obscene call. I have gotten “no-talkers”, though.
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