What's the best phone prank you ever pulled?

[enyawd72]

I love playing pranks on people. I just can't help myself. My wife works at a forging company where they forge large metal bolts for heavy machinery.

One day a few years back, I called their sales office and talked to my wife's co-worker Mark.

I said, "I understand you do forging." He replied yes we do.

Excellent. My wife is going to be having an "accident" very shortly, but first I'm afraid I'm going to need her signature forged on some documents. She has certain assets that I want.

There was a loooong silence...then he says all weirded out..."Umm, we don't do that kind of forging. We make parts."

"Oh." I said..."Ummm...okay, forget everything I said." and I hung up.

My wife told me he was messed up for the whole day.

[Megospidey]

At judgment day, God is going to let that man give you a wedgie for 1,000 years. I would absolutely crap my pants if I got that kind of call.

When my wife and I first married, she watched the noon news every day for something called "dialing for dollars." The noon news person had cut up a local phone book and put all the phone numbers in a fish bowl.

Every day at noon, she would pull a number out of the bowl, call the number, and if they knew the amount of money to be given away that day, they won.

This was 1989...no cell phones as home phones then...and back then you could dial your own number, hang up, and the phone would ring.

My wife is watching the news in the living room. I'm watching in the bedroom. I time it perfectly so that our phone rings at the house at the same time the phone is ringing on the tv.

She is running through the house screaming, "Derek! Derek! They're calling me - they're calling me!"

She was not very happy when she realized what I had done.

[enyawd72]

LOL...that's a good one.

I got my boss good too...he takes a trip to France every year to do a movie poster fair, and he had just gotten back home when I called his house. I meant to talk to him but I got his wife instead, which made it even better. I did a horrible French accent...I'm talking Peter Sellers bad, and said I was calling from "Ze Hotel Campanile" where he stayed. I said there were to be additional charges to his room for "Ze prostitutes and ze stolen towels."

His wife starts flipping out....she's yelling at him in the background, and I'm trying so hard not to laugh, then I tell her not all is bad because we were reimbursing him for "Ze complimentary croissants."
Then I hear her say, well that's just great! You and your prostitute got free croissants!
At that point I let her off the hook, and we were all three laughing hysterically.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^You are evil.

My friends and I got into this in our pre-teen years. A local radio station, 94.5 would give away $94.50 on a regular basis. We randomly called a number from the phone book, and in a very bad, fake grown-up voice, I claimed to be from the station and that she had won the $94.50 prize. The woman went hysterical and asked me if I was joking. I assured her I wasn't, and that she just needed to come to the station and pick it up. The station was in Lexington, which is about an hour away. I would be ready to kill someone if they pulled that with me. My friends were a bad influence!

Chris

[kerowack]

I was a little jerk (and later on a big one).

When we were ten, we hung out at the bowling alley and called 1-800-dial a mattress for about three hours straight. We kept getting the same two operators and by the end, we kept getting just the one guy. We kept asking him stupid things, he'd plead with us to quit, threaten that he traced our call and did all other things. By the end of the night, he was just picking up the phone and answering with nonsensical screaming.

A few years ago a bank kept calling for the previous home owner. After months of this, I finally picked up one day and said, "is this bobby b@&$/):$?(I knew his name...he called every week)". I know you've been "bleeping" my wife behind my back and when she gets home I'm gonna give her what she has coming to her!" Hen I pretended that she walked in and yelled "here you are!! You're dead you bi-" and hung up. Lol part, they never called back.

Last one.....direct tv called for the zillionth time and I told them my wife was interested and she was gonna be right with him. After like ten minutes of holding the phone and convincing the representative that my wife was moments away from answering, I said "she usually takes faster showers." The dude hung up.

[megoapesnut]

I worked at a local diner in my teen years. I needed more eggs and a few other things so I called the owner to ask to be restocked. His wife answered and I disguised my voice and said I was from the IRS and we hadn't received tax returns from them for 5 years. She was very panicked and then I said "Oh and we need more eggs, Ruth". Dead silence for 20 seconds then "Scott, wait till I get my hands on you!!"

[Dark Shadow]

Ahhh...the good ol' days before *69 & Caller ID.

My cousin & I should never have been left unattended when he & I were together...under any circumstance. The telephone was one of our favorite toys, we'd usually toss around different scenarios and plot our crimes out in detail before picking up the phone.

I think one of our most deviant (that I'm willing to put in print) was when we were about 10 or 11. We dialed a neighborhood doctor and I pretended to be calling on behalf of my "in-labor" mom.

My cousin provided all the background screams & shrieks of agony while I played the role of a panic-ridden kid who had no clue what to do in my father's absence. After several minutes of chaos, and while still carrying on, "Oh no, Oh no! What do I do, Oh God! Oh God!"...I put the mouthpiece near an air-filled whoopee cushion and sat on it. We both got quiet, and then a few seconds later, my cousin yelled out, "Oh thank heavens! Jimmy...Jimmy...It's Ok! It's OK! It was just a really bad case of gas!"

The doctor laughed a sigh of relief and asked if he could speak with my Mom...I said, "just a second" and quietly put the receiver back on the hook.

We told this story (and a few others) last year at his youngest kid's graduation party. That generation has a hard time comprehending the privacy, anonymity and "long leashes" our generation was privy to.

[Operation:Mego]

LOL...that's a good one.

I got my boss good too...he takes a trip to France every year to do a movie poster fair, and he had just gotten back home when I called his house. I meant to talk to him but I got his wife instead, which made it even better. I did a horrible French accent...I'm talking Peter Sellers bad, and said I was calling from "Ze Hotel Campanile" where he stayed. I said there were to be additional charges to his room for "Ze prostitutes and ze stolen towels."

His wife starts flipping out....she's yelling at him in the background, and I'm trying so hard not to laugh, then I tell her not all is bad because we were reimbursing him for "Ze complimentary croissants."
Then I hear her say, well that's just great! You and your prostitute got free croissants!
At that point I let her off the hook, and we were all three laughing hysterically.

I haven't been able to stop laughing since reading this.