911 Reverse Prank Phone Call A video
by TomMabe 393 10 09/07/2011 11:26 PM 4823 views
I've made a career out of harrassing telemarketers. I convinced one telemarketer that he called a murder scene, that I was a homicide detective and he was a suspect. Another time I checked into a hotel that was hosting a telemarketer convention, and prank called random rooms all night, trying to sell them stuff.
I'm always trying to think up the next funny bit, but I thought I had done everything that could be done to telemarketers. That's how I almost missed the boat on this one. Not only did this call almost not make my new CD due out this fall, but I almost didn't even show it to anyone.
I didn't think it was that original, but while going through a bunch of calls that I've been collecting for the past twelve years or so, I found this and thought, what the hell? I'll throw it up on YouTube and do a bubba focus group. Maybe people will think it's good enough to be used as a filler bit on the new CD.
The first hour or two, it got a few hundred views and some positive feedback. I checked it the following morning, and it had 50,000 views. A few hours later, we were up to 106,000 views, and currently we're over 300,000 views!
Here's the deal: every time I see "Out of Area" or "Unknown Caller" on my caller ID, I answer the phone as a 911 operator, and just run with it. Here's the first 911 reverse prank phone call I did. I've done several more since then, and they'll be on my new CD this fall, so you guys at ZUG are getting a sneak peek. Enjoy!
Tom Mabe's Murder Scene call may MAY just be the funniest call ever recorded. And I've heard Whister's cassette of him farting revolutionary era ditties.
(* I googled famous fife tunes to flesh out that previous line a bit. Nothin'. Nada. Seriously. You could google Lady Gaga's favorite flavour of lube and get something more specific than that.)
That is fantastic. The best bit is how the telemarketer's first priority on calling 911 isn't to hang up the damn phone, but to establish that it's not her fault and to still - insanely - try to get in touch with her target. There's great employee loyalty too, handing over the company's name automatically and only thinking - or rather, her brain jamming and pausing as she tries to - when asked for her own.
Continue kicking ass, and I'm using the hell out of that one.
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