BS: Collect obscene phone call.

Subject: BS: Collect, obscene phone call.
From: Peace
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 08:31 PM

If I ever get one, should I accept the charges?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 08:34 PM

I think that depends on wether its from a Guy or a Gal Bruce !!

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Peace
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 08:35 PM

LOL

Ya might have somethin' there.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 09:05 PM

I reckon that you allready figgured out that if you don't accept the charges then it's not officially a crank call but and unknown and possible crank call... Wes Ginny Slide Rule was all over this one...

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 10:41 PM

You collect obscene phone calls? How many are in your collection? When you die are you going to will it to a museum?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Peace
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 10:43 PM

Jaysus, they're loose tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: frogprince
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 11:11 PM

Actually, I can't remember if I ever made a crank call or not; I can remember when we had a phone with a crank to "ring"; each party on the line had a code, so many longs, so many shorts. But I'm not sure if I ever made a call myself before we got a dial phone.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 11:19 PM

Okay, lets simplify the math here:

Don't accept the collect call= no crank call...

Wes Ginny Slide Rule

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 11:33 PM

I've had a few phone messages on my answering machine that indicated that someone from the county jail was trying to make a collect call to my house. It was a recorded voice asking if I would accept the call from so-and-so at the county jail. Since I don't know anyone who has ever gone to jail it is unlikely they were really trying to call me. HOWEVER, there IS an urban legend about a scam out there, and one little bit of it is actually true: if I had a business line and were to authorize that call, then I think there is a way to make a whole bunch of calls on my nickle. They don't hang up after the call, they push the star or pound button then make another call and another and another. . .

This is what I've read, anway.

Considering there may be widely varying thresholds for people, what would you consider "obscene?" A call from Pat Robertson? From George Bush? From Heidi Fleis?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 12:17 AM

Sage - that was covered on the news here. It was happening from a jail in Texas.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 01:31 AM

Yes, it was, but I didn't feel like searching for it. I'd rather see if these guys can stay on track and come up with more double entendres!

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: harpgirl
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 07:52 AM

...what's your number, brucie? LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: MBSLynne
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 08:07 AM

Would you know it was obscene when you accepted the charge? Can you ask for your money back if it's no good?

I had an obscene 'phone call once and I was so surprised at what he said that I said "Pardon?" ..so he repeated it.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: open mike
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 08:18 AM

the scam thing involved dialing 90# ...here is the info:
....someone "received a telephone call from an individual
identifying himself as an AT&T Service Technician that was running a
test on our telephone lines. He stated that to complete the test the
QMOW should touch nine (9), zero (0), pound sign (#) and hang up.
Luckily, the QMOW was suspicious and refused. Upon contacting the
telephone company we were informed that by pushing 90# you end up
giving the individual that called you access to your telephone line
and allows them to place a long distance telephone call, with the
charge appearing on your telephone call. We were further informed
that this scam has been originating from many of the local
jails/prisons. Please "pass the word"."

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 09:20 AM

Brucie, if you are talking about the possible "business relationship" collect call I made from a payphone in Slovenia, where I offered an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the ENTIRE eastern Europe market of www.thonksky.com, and the way I described what the alpine breeze blowing over my nearly naked body as I was standing in the phone booth with nothing on but my thong, and of course a pair of black socks and wing tipped shoes, well, all I have to say is some people just can't see an opportunity if it hits them over the head. I do appreciate you sending the money to bail me out of the Ljubljana jail though, and the check's in the mail to pay you back. (you may need to hold it til Friday...something about my account being screwedup, you know how banks are)

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 10:21 AM

I've collected a couple -- where do I send them?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 10:39 AM

Get the dope @ Snopes

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 11:13 AM

Are we talking video phone calls or plain old vanilla ausio?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 01:41 PM

Lynne, I may be one of the few people who got a obscene phone call message.

Every year at this house museum where I live, I have a different volunteer from somewhere in the country come help do tours for a period of weeks. This one year I came home and found the volunteer sawcer-eyed.

She said, 'Ebbie', you got a phone call'.

Seems she answered the phone and a man asked for me. She said, She's out at a music thing. Can I take a message?

He says, Um. Ok. Yeah.

She says, Just a minute- let me get a pen.

He says, OK.

She got the pen and said, OK. What's the message?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Peace
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 01:58 PM

You people, especially jimmyt, are SICK. Here I am wondering if there's a market for collect obscene phone calls and what happens? Right. Folks joking around. Have you no heart?

Can you get them at pay phones?

No prob on the bail. Have you ever been in a Turkish prison, Jimmy?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: MBSLynne
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 01:59 PM

Hahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 01:59 PM

Wot's up with this thread????

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Peace
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 02:12 PM

I think there has to be a market for collect obscene phone calls. This is a business opportunity looking for customers, a market and a marketing strategy.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 02:58 PM

Brucie, You know damn good and well I have been in a Turkish prison, as that is where I first met you! My charges, however, were trumped up by the local authorities over that unfortunate nude rollerskating and pasta incident. It was all just a mixup. Your situation involving the 2 donkeys the yogurt and the blonde wig, however, were authenticated by authorities.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Peace
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 03:00 PM

BIG MOUTH.

(Do they know about the goat?)

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 03:34 PM

Don't bring up the goat!. I thought shwe had a good personality, though

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: rumanci
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 03:43 PM

blimey !!
the nanny state strikes again

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: PoppaGator
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 03:58 PM

I realize that it's a bit late to offer a *serious* response to this query, but here goes:

1) Wouldn't one have to accept the charges first, in order to learn whether the call is obscene or not? The only thing you can do is to accept charges *only* when you know the caller's identity.

2)We have occasionally received calls with the automated message "you have a collect call from a pay phone at Orleans Parish Prison," without any identification of the caller. These seem to come in bunches -- we'll get one or two per month for a while, than none at all for a year or so before they start up again.

Unfortunately, we got bunches of these calls while our kids were teenages living at home, often late at night when someone was still out running the streets, and it was entirely possible that a family member was indeed in jail (for underage drinking, smoking pot, being a passenger in a car with a drunk driver, etc.) Only after taking the call did we ascertain that the caller was a stranger calling a wrong number.

The worst thing was, we learned that these collect calls from the local jailhouse were billed at an outrageously high per-minute rate.

One more thing: If any one *does* have an obscene call collection, would you please post the best specimens?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 06:56 PM

I was talking to Shane, Brucie. He says that he would be happy to give you an obscene phone call anytime if you will accept the charges. One of his favourite hobbies is phoning numbers at random in Blind River and leaving such messages on answering machines. He says he does it at random because "I ain't prejudiced, eh?". He wants to sort of spread it around evenly, without showing favouritism to anyone in particular. He mistakenly left such a message on the phone of a girl he was trying to ask out recently, and she threw a milkshake at him the next time he showed up at Pizza Hut, and kicked him out. That's what you get for being fair and unbiased, eh? No respect.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: saulgoldie
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 02:13 PM

...charged with "making an obscene clone phall?"

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 02:27 PM

Collect obscene clone fall? An obscene clone has fallen and we have to pick up the pieces? Shouldn't that be "collect obscene clown fall"?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 03:29 PM

Just spit it out--he wants to clone an obscene clown collection.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 03:41 PM

If you get a call from a telemarketer during mealtime (hey, when else do they call?) and you tell them to "F*@# off!", can you be charged with obscenity?

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 04:36 PM

They call just about anytime in my experience...

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 04:53 PM

there's a LOT fewer obscene calls these days with caller ID available. A local college president got caught a few years ago, and it seems to have scared the possible perpetrators. Add to that the free availability of 'porn' on the WWW, and it just ain't worth the trouble for most of 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 09:45 AM

True conversation, that happened when I was getting ready for work, running late, and had to completely change clothes before leaving. The phone rings.

"Hello?"
"Hi! This Mark from Smitty's Siding! Wouldn't you like to enjoy the benefits of vinyl or aluminum siding on your home? We have a special offer...."
"You're selling siding?"
"Yes! And we have a special offer...."
"I think that anyone who sells stuff over the telephone catches their t**ds, puts little sticks in them, and freezes them as t**dsicles. Do you do that?"
(click)

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 12:24 PM

LOL! I have got to remember that one for the next telemarketer who calls. Show 'em no mercy, I say.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 12:41 PM

If you're a little too verbally inhibited to use Repaires response to telemarketers, consider this:
"I'm too busy for this right now, but if you'll give me your home phone number, I'll try to get back to you..."

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 05:25 PM

My mother uses the same line on all telemarketers:

"Oh, sorry. I'm Vegetarian."

She said it the first time to someone selling mail-order meat so now she falls back on it every time. She claims it shuts most of them up for a second, then she says "Goodbye. Have a nice day" and hangs up.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 07:11 PM

Well, I did this, too....

We'd been getting calls from Olin Mills, a photography company, offering to take pictures of my non-existent children. Finally, I'd had enough.

"Hi! This is Olin Mills. We have a special offer on pictures of your children...."
(sounds of sobbing from me)
"Sir..? Sir?"
"I...I'm sorry. It's just that my wife and I want children very much, but I was wounded by a castrater mine in Vietnam."
(a pause)
"I'm so sorry sir. I didn't mean to...I'm sorry. Goodbye, and good luck."
(Click)

They didn't call again for three years.

Subject: RE: BS: Collect obscene phone call.
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 03 Nov 04 - 08:47 AM

Bill D - we had an obscene phone call at three o'clock one morning - and they didn't suppress their number. So we reported them - Ma and Pa were away, and son had had a party, which got gatecrashed. It was the crashers wot done it!

But I don't think Ma and Pa were too happy when they were visited by the local uniforms investigating the complaint...

epn