# Phone Scam Bottoms Out **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 6, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724 "2011-08-06T12:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/1 "2011-08-06T12:30:11Z")
Pity the poor inmate here in Bangkok who shoved a cellphone up his rectum to smuggle it in, only to be discovered when it started ringing. 😃 Story [here](http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/250444/phone-scam-bottoms-out), along with one or two other rectal prison cellphone shenanigans. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/2 "2011-08-06T12:41:33Z")
\> Insert obligatory butt-dialing joke here \< ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/3 "2011-08-06T12:44:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Pity the poor inmate here in Bangkok who shoved a cellphone up his rectum to smuggle it in, only to be discovered when it started ringing. 😃 “What’s wrong Bob?” “I phoned the wrong number by accident, and got the _weirdest_ noises from the other end!” ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/4 "2011-08-06T14:07:26Z")
I don’t care how small it was, a phone is never going up my arse. Intentionally. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/5 "2011-08-06T15:36:11Z")
Caught out by a ring tone, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/6 "2011-08-06T15:42:18Z")
Would have been a good time to set it on vibrate, for several reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/7 "2011-08-06T15:44:01Z")
Some Thai food can be hot. The ring tone might have been _Ring Of Fire_. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/8 "2011-08-06T16:46:43Z")
Odds on it was a wrong number too. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/9 "2011-08-08T02:50:31Z")
Rectum? Damn near killed 'em! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/10 "2011-08-08T10:23:46Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Pity the poor inmate here in Bangkok who shoved a cellphone up his rectum to smuggle it in, only to be discovered when it started ringing. 😃 Story [here](http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/250444/phone-scam-bottoms-out), along with one or two other rectal prison cellphone shenanigans. He must work for my cable company. Every time I call their helpline, I’m connected to some foreign asshole. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/11 "2011-08-08T14:56:44Z")
> [@](#): > > The practice makes it easy for inmates to evade metal detectors. Mr Sorasit said some warders tell inmates to jump up and down so phones hidden up their backsides fall out. 1. Stick this plastic thing up your butt. 2. Jump up and down. 3. Pillow fight! ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/12 "2011-08-08T15:30:14Z")
Could you imagine if it had been set on vibrate? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/13 "2011-08-08T15:32:37Z")
I wonder if he had a web browser open at the time. He might have been googling for “Butthole Surfers.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/14 "2011-08-08T15:34:42Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > Odds on it was a wrong number too. A cell phone is most definately a wrong #2. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/15 "2011-08-08T15:36:50Z")
Am I the only one here who’s impressed the phone got a signal? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-scam-bottoms-out/591724/16 "2011-08-08T15:40:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Sorasit Chongcharoen, director of the department’s Central Correctional Institution for Drug Addicts, said mobile phones have been smuggled into prisons before. What a coincidence, I’d be Sorasit too if I’d stuffed a phone up my butt.