I’ve had my phone number for 3-4 years now, but for some reason I still get calls for other people, presumably ones who had the number before me. I usually give the standard, “sorry, no one here by that name” answer. Then, at 5 a.m. today, I get this message:
Bear in mind that my outgoing message has my first name and phone number, to pre-empt most wrong numbers.
So, anyone want to guess as to the meaning of this one?
Call the number and report back.
Haj
I’d HAVE to call and find out what that was all about.
Shit! They’re on to us. Abort mission, abort mission!!!
Hell, e-mail me the number…I’ll call 'em.
Sounds interesting.
Police investigation?
Be advised you never got that message. If someone contacts you in the future, you will be required to feign ignorance.
Repeat-you never got that message, you don’t know what it means, and you don’t know the origins…
[George Costanza] Tippy toe! Tippy toe! [George Costanza]
Seriously, call the number and report back to us…
You should call Sergeant X and tell him he left the message on the wrong machine! Otherwise Mr. NotMyName might go near the vehicle and foul everything up! :eek:
There was a sleazy club here whose phone number was the same as my parents, with two digits transposed. We’d get calls all the time from people looking for their spouses. “He can’t come to the phone, he’s in the back room getting it on with a mule to win a bet”, and other such hilarity ensued.
If I get a message that wasn’t intended for me and it sounds like the message was important for the person who was supposed to receive it I will be courteous and call back to let the caller know that he or she misdialed. Most people are appreciative of this. One time a lady called my mom and dad’s house by mistake to let someone know that she’d be running late. My mom called her back and the lady was very thankful for letting her know.
dwc1970, true, although one wonders why this individual had to be told at 5 a.m. to stay away from the car.
And I did call the number a little while later. It did belong to a local county police division, but Sergeant X was in the previous shift and the one I spoke to had no idea what the deal was. He left a message for Sergeant X telling him the number he called was wrong and that was that.
Kinda disappointing, I know. Anyone have good story ideas for what might be going on here?
No doubt a drug-related incident.
Yet another example of the oh-so-fabulous job that the Department of Homeland Security is doing.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I’m not even close to kidding about this.
The first link on this page of my website (works on most but not all browsers) is a message that was left on my machine a few months back.
Possibly drug related, Kalhoun. Sounds like Mr. Not My Name tipped the police to a suspicious car and he was continuing to snoop around the vehicle while the police servalence was on going.
Could be a car used in a robbery, kidnapping etc. The police don’t want to let the driver/owner of the car know that anyone (including Mr. Not my Name) finds his car suspicious or out of the ordinary.
make that, while the police surveillance was on going .
Sergeant too stoned to dial properly?
Holy Jebus, how hard is this to figure out? Just stay the heck away from the vehicle!
Some people…
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What’s with all the Soviet sympathy on your site? 
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I have an…interesting, if not mildly scary, history of wrong numbers.