What to do with nuisance phonecalls?

A bloke, who sounds ill or drunk keeps calling my house and asking for Julie. Last night he called at 12:30am. I *69’d his mobile number.

I called BT and they said I have to PAY a monthly fee to have his number blocked.

I don’t know what the police can do (London UK) since he’s not threatening, just weird, slurring and persistant. My SO won’t pick up the phone any more (which is a pain) incase it’s him.

What do you suggest I do?

Tell him Julie can’t talk right now. Your dick’s in her mouth.

I’m not sure talking to him will help.

I think he calls people up, Julie doesn’t exist - he’s waiting for a reaction. I thought about blowing a whistle next to the phone to put him off calling but that too may make him worse.

“Can I speak to Julie?”

“No.” <click>
(That’s what I do to telemarketers.)

Last night:

“Can I speak to Julie?”
“No. Hang up.” and I hung up.

This has been happening about twice a week for 3 months, I’m tired of picking up the phone to this loser.

Screen your calls with an answering machine and don’t answer the phone at night anyway.

“Julie’s dead, Dave. They’re all dead.”

“Julie’s dead. I ate her liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”

“Julie can’t come to the phone right now, I’ve got her bent over the couch.”

Can’t you complain to his mobile service provider? (If you have his number then you can find out.)

Another strategy is to pick up, but not answer, then leave the phone off the hook or stick the handset it in a drawer. Nuisance callers call to get a reaction. They don’t like dead air. If they don’t hear a human voice at all they get bored (they don’t know if it’s a machine picking up on the first ring or what. It’s not as “fun”.)

“Sure. Hang on.”

Set phone down without hanging up.

Go back to sleep.

Heh, Ethilrist. I like that idea. But won’t do it I expect.

Eats_Crayons: Do you know how to do that? - find out which provider he’s with?

Eats_Crayons and Ethilrist’s suggestions are particularly good, as you’ll be jacking up his mobile bill too. :slight_smile:

I had some drunk chick call looking for my son (who no longer lives at home). God, I wanted to throttle her. She was rude and drunk and I hope she puked.

I thought about signing up to Lycos SMS and sending him a message telling him to stop making nuisance calls. Could He find out my own mobile number from that?

If you’re male: Tell him you ARE Julie and that the operation went swimmingly.

If you’re female: Tell him that Julie was your slave name and that High Priest Ethelron now calls you the more liberating make a funny sound into the phone and that if he wants to continue talking to you he must respect it and call you that noise.

I’ve found that hanging up on people just ticks them off and makes them call back. Play with them. Have some fun. Ask him if he remembers all the fun times down at the cabin by the Lake. Get mad and hurt when he doesn’t remember. Ask him when he’s gonna pay you that hundred quid he owes you. Try to sell him some magazines. Whatever. Turn the tables on him.

Enjoy yourself. Remember, when life gives you lemons, tell life you want fucking caviar. Then kick its ass.

Maybe it’s different where you’re located, but in Canada you can usually figure out the mobile provider by the exchange. (Or at least you used to, perhaps that’s not the the case nowawdays with cell phones being much more common. I haven’t tried it in awhile.)

I suppose you could call a provider and ask if they have a specific range of exchanges.