To Listen To Someone Else's Voicemail, Press 1
from the whoops dept
I remember, many years ago, dealing with the "crossed line" phenomenon. A friend had a phoneline that somehow got crossed with (we guessed) a neighbor's line. We'd be talking on the phone, and suddenly we'd hear - perfectly loud and clear - someone else start a conversation. We once spent a while listening in on one of these conversations and testing whether or not they could hear us. There was no reaction, so we began mocking everything that was being said (we were kids, and that's what kids do) - which turned out to be a mistake when we (and they) discovered they could hear us. Anyway, I had no idea anything like that still happened - and especially did not expect it to occur on a mobile phone network. However, in Australia, thousands of Telstra mobile phone customers discovered that talking on the phone became a giant party line - and you had no idea who might be listening. They're still not entirely sure what happened, but people trying to answer calls on their mobile phone (correctly indicated by the caller ID) found themselves listening to entirely unrelated conversations. They also found they often had access to the voicemail boxes of others.
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It happens
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Not quite as bad as....
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How to STOP those calls....
Several responses: " Tell them you will be happy to provide the message as soon as the receipient is released from child molestors prison "
" Tell them, you would be happy to let them talk to the party they are trying to reach but unfortunately your cock is in their mouth and they are not able to speak @ this time "
These two usually STOP the calls.
Besides, its usually the last asshole that had the # that is still giving it out ... I know I do anytime someone wants a phone # in a bar or for a form and they don't need it, I just tell 'em 717 - 630 - 8041
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classic tel$tra
tel$tra is the classic public utility thats been part privatised & had its staff massively reduced & plant investment severly curtailed. it now relies on media advertising & political fixes to survive while openly increasing line rentals by 100% over 3 years just to rub it into it customers.
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Overlapping cell conversations
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