Opal, that isn’t me you are replying to (StrTrkr777), His name is Jeffery. That is who you are replying to. I don’t use Star Trek in my usernames anymore, that was over a year ago.
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I never got an obscene phone call! I want one! Maybe some lady here could call me?
Just post your phone number, Handy, and your wish will come true. 
“If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge
I’ve only had one obscene phone call and it was because my name and the fact I was a freshman at the University of Minnesota was listed in some stupid “student directory” (you’d think that the liberal “privacy police” on campus would have put a stop to that kind of thing).
I wanted to relay this story because I wanted to know if anyone else has got one of these at work:
A co-worker of mine got a call pretty recently during the business day. The man on the line said he was taking a marketing survey on pantyhose…and proceded to ask her a number of question about the brands she buys, the style (controll-top, sheer, stockings, etc). During the course of the Q&A session the man stops and says “I’m sorry, but I think we may have a bad phone connection. Would you please rip a piece of paper into the phone.” My co-worker obliged (like 10 times or something). It wasn’t until a few moments later that she realized that the call was one of “those” calls. Needless to say she hung up the phone.
Now I’ve heard of a lot of wierd fettish things before but pantyhose and the sound of ripping paper is WAY OVER THE TOP 
I used to receive the occasional obscene call, but not in about 8-9 years. A couple of times, it was done by women. The last few were evidently done by a male homosexual who, I suspect, was being put up to it by a mutual acquaintance I could never figure out. But the calls stopped after (as the phone company security office suggested) I started recording the calls and logging the times (sometimes as late/early as 3 a.m.).
I got Caller-ID a couple of years ago, just to see who was calling for the sake of convenience, and because the phone company sells it to you with the “anonymous call reject” feature (ACR). Only thing, folks, is what the phone company doesn’t tell you is that they “milk” both ends of the line. You get the “assurance” that no one can call you anonymously; however, I’ve learned that the phone companies also make available an option to phone solicitors that causes their “number” to come up as “Out of Area” on the CallerID unit. Not “No Data Sent”. I see no real reason why this should be an excuse, though; when my brother calls from Seattle (pretty much ‘out of the area’ of central Kentucky), his number is displayed nonetheless.
What I think may be going on is that the boiler rooms from which the solicitors work may, in some cases, be situated in prisons and the parent companies aren’t eager to have a prison number/name appear on somebody’s id unit.
Unfortunately, some of the personal calls I get are occasionally from someone who actually lives “outside the area” in a place where the system doesn’t generate the data to send. But most aren’t. I finally took to just letting the answering machine pick up on the “Out of Area” calls.
So, bottom line – don’t get CallerId expecting that it will be an answer to getting obscene calls. If you use anonymous call reject, and the creep is seriously trying to get to you, he/she will just try from a pay phone. (Admittedly, there are some creeps stupid enough to actually call from their home phones.) The only way that could help is if the police agree to stand by to respond at a moment’s notice to get to the pay phone # displayed, and you know how they love to do that.
Radio Shack sells a device that if the call comes thru as private(*67)
or out of area that will tell the caller “You are calling from an unidentfied phone. Pls hang up and allow youself to be identified.”
Caller ID bites ass.
For some reason, all of the phone numbers I’ve had in the past few years are unidentifiable according to some phone system or another, and I show up as “Unknown Name,” when placing calls to different area codes.
I’m not a telemarketer, but if the friend/family member I’m calling isn’t aware of the drawbacks of their caller ID system, they often won’t pick up.
I’ve never gotten an obscene call in my life…geeessh I guess southern men just haven’t figured out how to do make them yet
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
Seriously, Mel, have you called the phone company to ask them about it? Are you positive that your number-block function has not accidentally been turned on by a child or family pet?
If you knew what I know, everything would make sense; and if it didn’t, you’d know enough to know not to worry about it – The God of Somebody Else
If you are calling someone with caller ID rejection & need to identify yourself right then to get thru, you hit *82, right? I forgot what the number was but you can do it & then your nbr shows & the call goes thru.
Sure, dougie_monty, it’s 831-555-8774.
If it’s busy it’s cause there are a lot of women calling.
I suspect Ameritech would have very little to say if I were to ask them why someone else’s (out of state, Southern Bell) caller ID declares me “unknown.”
None of the parties involved have children and the pets aren’t allowed to use the phone until they are at least 13.
From Mel:
Most of my pets would never live long enough to get to use the phone, much less be bothered about obscene callers.
And I suspect you have not given them a call. If a Southern Bell caller’s number shows up on your CallerID, then yours should show up on theirs, since I likewise suspect Ameritech and Southern Bell must mutually honor the calling protocols of each company with which they network.
Yeah, right. Like you know what your pets are doing when you’re not at home! And I bet you thought the housekeeper was to blame for the change in the level of your liquor.
If you knew what I know, everything would make sense; and if it didn’t, you’d know enough to know not to worry about it – The God of Somebody Else
Teeheehee, “housekeeper.”
Teeheehee, “caller ID.”
First off, I really don’t believe pets should be allowed to use the phone at all. It’s too hard for them to resist chewing on the receiver. SO the age limit was rather arbitrary.
Okay, I was trying to figure out where the lines of communication were severed. Now I understand that someone made an assumption. I was talking about other people’s Caller ID.
I do not have Caller ID, Sam I am.
I do not have it in a box,
I do not have it with a fox.
I do not, do not have a dog.
In my dorm I could not even keep a frog.
I do not, do not have a housekeeper.
Tho at my last apt I did have a peeper.
I do not, do not have a house.
I do not, do not have a spouse.
Sam I Am, I have an answering machine,
Which tops the IDwhatsit- you know what I mean.
I shall not, shall not call the Phone Company and be a bore
As that would give them an excuse to bother me more.
I do not, do not have Caller ID,
Not on a ship or in a tree.
I don’t have any of these things, Sam I am.
Read the post more carefully next time, god- damn.
Of course, when I refer back to the topic that is supposedly addressed in this thread, I realize that I, apparently, have failed to take advantage of a fabulous opportunity.
“There is nothing you ought to do, for the simple reason that you know nothing, nothing whatever- make a mental note of that, if you please.”
-V. Nabokov
FixedBack
“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”~~*G.K.Chesterton *
I remember reading about a doohickey that helps correct some of the deficiencies of Caller ID. When someone calls your number, before the phone rings, they get a recorded message that says something to the effect of, “you’ve reached the home of Joe Blow. Please state your name and business at the tone.” If the caller does this, you get a voice announcement saying “Call from (recorded name)” and you can decide whether to pick up or not. If they won’t leave their name (and what telemarketer would?), the call is terminated.
Live a Lush Life
Da Chef
The only obscene call I ever got was at work. Someone was waiting at my desk and a guy called and started hemming and hawing about having what I needed. I thought it was some kind of half-assed sales call, and a not very good salesman. After a couple of minutes I blew my stack and yelled at him to get to the point. He then offered to perform a service on me, a job of sorts. I did not see that coming and just stared into the reciever before hanging up.