Prank Phone Calls and the absolute toolbags who make them

[marty]

Funny enough, the phone calls stopped after that.

[sms001]

Sooory, I just figured if you showed them you were onto their little game that they'd give up.

I bet Marty wishes it'd work too!

She's already pOwned one pretty seriously:

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=27236

[In the Store]
SC: Idiot 15 year old kid.
Me: I rule you!

SC: Do you guys have battletoads?
Me: No.
SC: Can you look?
ME: No, I can't look, and I'm not going to do a barrel roll or shoop de whoop, I'm not charging my lasers, I don't like mudkip, and I'm not going to use the boost to chase. You do know that everytime you guys call up here we call the police and trace the phone calls, now how happy do you think your mom's going to be when she gets a phone call about someone from your number making harassing phone calls? It gets old fast, really.
SC:
Me: Yeah. You can leave now.

I win!

Go Marty!!!

[Apathy]

I worked 3rd shift at a small grocery store a few years ago. I got this call:

Me: *grocery store* (I didn't do the spiel. It's 3rd, no one cares, and no one's around to enforce it on me)
Idiot: Uhh, yeah. Hi. Do you guys carry cockrings? *snicker*
Me: Yes.
Idiot:.... uhhh..... uhhhh..... *click*

Just so you know, we didn't carry those.

[Parrothead]

We only have two prank calls at the kennel (that I know of): We had someone want to know if we could board Marmosets (left a message on the machine, no name, no contact info.) and some teenaged-ish boys who keep saying that their dog is having issues with his genitalia. Only cruder.


And then there was the lady who called, absolutely frantic, because her rabbit had gone into labor. Several hours ago.

[Bramblerose]

They've moved on to this:
"Do you guys have Grand Theft Auto: Johnson City Stories?"

what if you gave them teh ph # to the nearest motel-by-the-hour?

(Ok, call me crazy, but I think battletoads could be fun- assuming a good dose of humor- swamp gas mines, problems with water corroding weapons, etc etc).

[Samaliel]

I don't get the Battletoads one.

The fact is that Battletoads actually is a game, but such an ancient one (we're talking NES here) that most stores aren't likely to carry it. Somehow, they must think that is funny.

Kinda like the idiots who do nothing but flood forums with DESU posts. Desu is NOT a meme. :P

I do find it highly amusing though how widespread Rickrolling has become. I wonder what many non-channers would do if they visited the site for all of five minutes. Actually...ya think they'd even last that long?

I'm not sure I want to know, but what is a "desu post" ?

Also, I once visited 4chan, but was quickly distracted by something, you know, actually interesting.

[Seraph]

The new ones don't know what they're doing (as evidenced by the battletoads prank going on so long instead of them moving on to something original and/or actually funny) so the rules don't apply for them.

Kinda like the idiots who do nothing but flood forums with DESU posts. Desu is NOT a meme. :P

I do find it highly amusing though how widespread Rickrolling has become. I wonder what many non-channers would do if they visited the site for all of five minutes. Actually...ya think they'd even last that long?

[Eric the Grey]

I don't get the Battletoads one.

Laffin. I can remember calling the grocery store and asking if they had Prince Albert in the can.

Guess I just told everybody how old I am.

I had someone call asking me that exactly once when I worked at a convience store. I honestly told them no and they were very confused. The store carried it in a box, but not in a can.



Eric the Grey

[SugarBeef]

Your rant is totally justified. There is no excuse to make "prank" calls like that. I'm not going to say what I think should happen to people that make those kinds of calls as I think it would violate one of the rules.

On a different note, when I was working in the game store, the owner bought us a phone with built-in caller ID. It really helped us weed out the prank callers (didn't get many) and the idiots that would just keep calling over and over with stupid questions.

The idiots use skype and other internet calling programs so the numbers won't help you much. Honestly, your best bet is probably to start doing a bit of lurking there to find out if someone's putting your store's number up again and begging for acceptance. That and using the most appropriate memes to fight back, like telling them "no, but we have combat amphibians," "one second. (pause, have a male coworker finish) This is Chris Hanson, why don't you have a seat over there?" or the candlejack idea Nyx had. To rickroll them, you'd need a recording of the song that you can pick up and play into the reciever on command and I doubt management would pay for something to do that.

And Nyx, no letters were mentioned (so you didn't technically break rules 1&2), so none of the old anons would care much. The new ones don't know what they're doing (as evidenced by the battletoads prank going on so long instead of them moving on to something original and/or actually funny) so the rules don't apply for them.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

angry rant with ultimate rage, swearing and lots of hatred, beware:

i fucking hate prank calls!!!! again, i work for a police agency, and we got a prank call where a woman said she shot a man and was going to kill the officers who showed up. THIS WAS A MOTHERF#%$#^ PRANK?! what kind of sick shit are you?!
You wasted valuable police resources when we did have actual high priority calls to go on you useless piece of shit!!

isn't that a felony? a business is bad enough, but the police? they're already disadvantaged enough(not anything that they can help, or anyone else could do better, they just have an impossible job) with the large areas they have to cover, and criminals knowing who they are, with not enough people, but then they're dealing with prank calls? I hope you arrested her and she "fell" a couple times

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

But none of that's as good as the time the twelve year old called, asked if I was a girl, then asked if he could "hit that".

i know someone who was in wal mart and a little kid told her she was a MILF


as for the gamers, some of them just can't talk to women, go to a video game forum and see what happens when people admit that they're female, it's funny, but in a way that embarasses every male alive

[Darkwish]

angry rant with ultimate rage, swearing and lots of hatred, beware:

i fucking hate prank calls!!!! again, i work for a police agency, and we got a prank call where a woman said she shot a man and was going to kill the officers who showed up. THIS WAS A MOTHERF#%$#^ PRANK?! what kind of sick shit are you?!
You wasted valuable police resources when we did have actual high priority calls to go on you useless piece of shit!!
I think back to when my ex was trying to kill, and he nearly succeeded by the way. And i think that if some moron like you had made a call like that at the same time, i wouldn't be posting this fucking reply!
how! fucking! dare! you!
oh man i'm super pissed....
end rant

Your rant is totally justified. There is no excuse to make "prank" calls like that. I'm not going to say what I think should happen to people that make those kinds of calls as I think it would violate one of the rules.

On a different note, when I was working in the game store, the owner bought us a phone with built-in caller ID. It really helped us weed out the prank callers (didn't get many) and the idiots that would just keep calling over and over with stupid questions.

[Record Store Tough Guy]

Yeah, if it's 4chan /b/tards, a Rickroll would be eminiently appropriate.

/b/tard: Yeah, do you have Battletoads?
Me: Actually, we have a solid release date. It's--
Rick Astley: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down!

Ahh, /b/. Hoisted by your own petard.

[marty]

Sooory, I just figured if you showed them you were onto their little game that they'd give up. Just thought it might help, guess not... :\

Didn't mean to seem like I was yelling at you thar. The thing is, the people that keep calling us know that we're onto their game but they keep calling regardless. It gets hard to handle that kind of childishness not coming from, you know, a child. They're worse than the 12 year olds doing live on Halo...

[NightWatch]

angry rant with ultimate rage, swearing and lots of hatred, beware:

i fucking hate prank calls!!!! again, i work for a police agency, and we got a prank call where a woman said she shot a man and was going to kill the officers who showed up. THIS WAS A MOTHERF#%$#^ PRANK?! what kind of sick shit are you?!
You wasted valuable police resources when we did have actual high priority calls to go on you useless piece of shit!!
I think back to when my ex was trying to kill, and he nearly succeeded by the way. And i think that if some moron like you had made a call like that at the same time, i wouldn't be posting this fucking reply!
how! fucking! dare! you!
oh man i'm super pissed....
end rant