# Very Vaguely Creepy Strikes Back **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473 "2004-04-11T17:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/1 "2004-04-11T17:42:37Z")
So I was chatting with this guy last night named Merce, and he mentioned the recent death of his best friend. “He was like a brother to me,” he said. “He left my house one evening and fell asleep at the wheel. Hit somebody head on, killed him instantly. Not even drunk or high, just fell asleep.” I offered my condolences. Merce nodded and said, “You know what’s odd, though? Two days after he died, I woke up, picked up my cell phone and saw I had missed a call. And it was from _his_ cell phone.” We agreed this was indeed strange. “I figured his girlfriend had tried to call me using his phone,” he continued, “so the next time I saw her I asked her about it. She said that she couldn’t have called me on his cell, since that phone had been destroyed in the accident that killed him.” :eek: “Not just that – the missed call had voice mail. It was two minutes of silence sent by a cell phone that didn’t exist anymore. I don’t know what that means, man, but wow…” ---
**Author:** ![Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercury)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/2 "2004-04-11T18:37:54Z")
I would **never** delete that voice mail. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/3 "2004-04-11T19:44:40Z")
Nah, I would say that anecdote goes beyond Very Vaguely Creepy into the Pretty Furshlugginer Creepy department. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/4 "2004-04-11T22:53:57Z")
I agree. Nothing vague about this creepiness. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/5 "2004-04-11T23:02:11Z")
The roaming charges for “the other side” must be hellish! 😛 –SSgtBaloo ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/6 "2004-04-11T23:47:36Z")
**SSgtBaloo** , LOL, that was a great quip. Somebody sign this guy up! Creepy? I’ll give you creepy! [Children on Easter egg hunt find guns](http://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2004/04/11/egg_hunt/index.html) FLINT, Mich. (AP) – A group of children hunting for Easter eggs Saturday during a church event found two loaded handguns outside an elementary school. ---
**Author:** ![Paradoxical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Paradoxical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paradoxical)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/7 "2004-04-12T00:49:26Z")
Wow creepy(car wreck story). Perhaps his friend was dialing him on his cell phone but fell asleep, and the send button was hit on impact. It would have been creepier if he’d heard gasping or crying. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/8 "2004-04-12T03:31:18Z")
> [@Paradoxical](#): > > Wow creepy(car wreck story). Perhaps his friend was dialing him on his cell phone but fell asleep, and the send button was hit on impact. It would have been creepier if he’d heard gasping or crying. But it was two days later! That’s what makes it creepy! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/9 "2004-04-12T05:05:20Z")
> [@Paradoxical](#): > > It would have been creepier if he’d heard gasping or crying. No… that would be the most F\*CKING sad thing possible. Not _woah_… creepy man. ---
**Author:** ![Paradoxical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Paradoxical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paradoxical)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/10 "2004-04-12T05:06:31Z")
Obviously, dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![Paradoxical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Paradoxical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paradoxical)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/11 "2004-04-12T05:10:59Z")
Ooooh, I thought the guy hadn’t checked his voicemail in a while and discovered the message by chance. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/12 "2004-04-12T05:40:49Z")
> [@Paradoxical](#): > > Obviously, dumbass. Excuse me? ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/13 "2004-04-18T04:41:12Z")
I’m very disappointed in you, Dopers! I can’t believe I’m the only one to have anything Very Vaguely Creepy tm happen to them recently. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/14 "2004-04-18T05:39:53Z")
I got a birthday card from my dad a month after my birthday and a week after he died, (he was in the hospital for a month). It probably go lost on the way, it was in pretty bad shape, but still… ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/15 "2004-04-18T07:51:28Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Two days after he died, I woke up, picked up my cell phone and saw I had missed a call. And it was from _his_ cell phone." I have an explanation, which could fit the facts. It might even be possible for you to check this. I went on a business trip about six weeks ago to consult with a government forensics laboratory - the lab was divided into sections - the section I was visiting specifically had nothing to do with “police” matters but one of the other sections was very interesting… If there was a suspicious death, or a shooting, they got the cell phones and dug into the menus and call logs. If there was a house fire, and the police wanted to know what channel the melted television was tuned to last, or how much of the DVD movie played before the fire caused a power loss, they could find out as long as the data remained in a RAM chip. If a guy in a motorized wheelchair was killed in a tumble down a hill near a sidewalk in a park, they’d be checking the chair’s control, motor, and steering mechanisms. Is it possible that a police investigator called you on the cell phone (i.e., “speed dial”) by accident during such an investigation? You could find out who did the accident investigation, and call them. Standard procedure at this lab I visited, as an example, was to record the technician’s actions as he traversed the menus of the cell phone, by videotaping the cellphone while it was being looked at. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/16 "2004-04-18T10:05:58Z")
Wow. That _is_ creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/17 "2004-04-18T10:54:05Z")
In seven days you will die. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/18 "2004-04-18T15:36:17Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > I’m very disappointed in you, Dopers! I can’t believe I’m the only one to have anything Very Vaguely Creepy tm happen to them recently. Okay, how about this…last night I was finishing up a research paper on _A Clockwork Orange_. If you’ve read the book you know that it has basically its own language. So I left the computer and went to find something to eat (this was after one o’clock in the morning). I opened the pantry door to get some Tostitos… The pantry light was off and I couldn’t see anything very clearly, but I could discern the outline of the Tostitos bag on one of the top shelves. Except it didn’t say “Tostitos.” It said “ **britva**.” “Britva” means “razor” in the language of _A Clockwork Orange_, as in a “ **cut-throat britva**.” :eek: Of course I was imagining it, but it spooked me for a second. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-vaguely-creepy-strikes-back/239473/19 "2004-04-18T17:08:17Z")
Maybe your subconscious is trying to tell you that your diet is killing you!