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<blockquote data-quote="buzzard" data-source="post: 292651" data-attributes="member: 3003">Best prank call I know of was actually a series, or rather a dedicated plot to drive a man insane. You see a buddy of mine back in the college days saw a poster that advertised a free picnic, he then called the organization in question to get details. He spoke to a guy named Ross. This being college, you would swoop down on stuff like that like a vulture. Well he and I went trekking out to find this picnic. Unbeknownst to us it had been cancelled. This left my friend miffed. He called the organization back and they, stupidly, gave my buddy Ross' phone number. Bad move. Thus begins the torment. You see we did not prank call our new friend Ross. Campus police would go after that, especially if it were a repeat job. We were a more sly bunch of drunks than that. what we did was use the campus directory and call random freshlings. Given that freshlings are usually damned naive, they were the perfect tools. We would call the freshlings and hope for an answering machine. If we got one we would leave a message &quot;Hello this is Ross. I'm your physics TA, and it is URGENT that you call be back. This is about your grade. I'm busy most of the time so please call after 10 PM. &quot; We would sometimes change the class in question, but you get the picture. This must have been done several dozen if not hundreds of time. Pretty much any time a bunch of our coterie was together drinking such calls would be made. Periodically we would call Ross himself to gauge our progress. These conversations would be rather like:US:&quot;Hello, I'm trying to get a hold of Ross, he left a massage on my machine saying he was my physics TA&quot;this was to a machine since by the time we were checking Ross didn't directly answer callsROSS&quot;Hello- you have a message on your machine!&quot;US(sheepishly):&quot;Uh yes, someone called, but I don't think it was my TA, I mean your not my TA, I'm not sure what's &quot;ROSS:&quot;YOU HAVE A TAPE!! Good, some jerk [well actually an expletive, but we have grandmothers to think of here] has been harassing be and I need to get a tape to campus security. HA HA HA, I'll get them!! I NEED THAT TAPE!&quot;US: &quot;Uhh, sure, I guess&quot;ROSS: &quot;Can you drop it by the [organization] office tommorow? I NEED IT!&quot;US: &quot;Uhh, yeah, sure.&quot;ROSS:&quot;GREAT!&quot;We'd click off around this point since it was hard to stop laughing (especially when pickled). Buzzard</blockquote>

[QUOTE="buzzard, post: 292651, member: 3003"] Best prank call I know of was actually a series, or rather a dedicated plot to drive a man insane. You see a buddy of mine back in the college days saw a poster that advertised a free picnic, he then called the organization in question to get details. He spoke to a guy named Ross. This being college, you would swoop down on stuff like that like a vulture. Well he and I went trekking out to find this picnic. Unbeknownst to us it had been cancelled. This left my friend miffed. He called the organization back and they, stupidly, gave my buddy Ross' phone number. Bad move. Thus begins the torment. You see we did not prank call our new friend Ross. Campus police would go after that, especially if it were a repeat job. We were a more sly bunch of drunks than that. what we did was use the campus directory and call random freshlings. Given that freshlings are usually damned naive, they were the perfect tools. We would call the freshlings and hope for an answering machine. If we got one we would leave a message "Hello this is Ross. I'm your physics TA, and it is URGENT that you call be back. This is about your grade. I'm busy most of the time so please call after 10 PM. " We would sometimes change the class in question, but you get the picture. This must have been done several dozen if not hundreds of time. Pretty much any time a bunch of our coterie was together drinking such calls would be made. Periodically we would call Ross himself to gauge our progress. These conversations would be rather like: US:"Hello, I'm trying to get a hold of Ross, he left a massage on my machine saying he was my physics TA" this was to a machine since by the time we were checking Ross didn't directly answer calls ROSS"Hello- you have a message on your machine!" US(sheepishly):"Uh yes, someone called, but I don't think it was my TA, I mean your not my TA, I'm not sure what's " ROSS:"YOU HAVE A TAPE!! Good, some jerk [well actually an expletive, but we have grandmothers to think of here] has been harassing be and I need to get a tape to campus security. HA HA HA, I'll get them!! I NEED THAT TAPE!" US: "Uhh, sure, I guess" ROSS: "Can you drop it by the [organization] office tommorow? I NEED IT!" US: "Uhh, yeah, sure." ROSS:"GREAT!" We'd click off around this point since it was hard to stop laughing (especially when pickled). Buzzard [/QUOTE]

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