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Repugnant Abomination · 11-09-2007, 07:09 PM

I'm at work right now. I work at the University help desk and switch board (campus operator). I worked switch board today. Everything was going fine until I got a strange phone call...

***Please note*** this is 100% true, it just happened, and I'm very uneasy about it.

The phone rings and I answer, "SOU, how can I direct your call?" On the other end of the line it's kind of...Scratchy. The voice is a man's, and he's irritated, almost frantic. He starts going off about how I need to call the police, right now, and tell them to stop harassing him. It totally caught me off guard. So I tell him I'm only the operator and I again ask him who he would like me to transfer him to. He informs me he's not a student here (yet) and the government is trying to stop him - whatever that means. At this point I'm pretty sure this is a prank call, but I'm morbidly curious, so I ask him why they're harassing him. He says because he's uncovered a huge government conspiracy in the state of Oregon, and that Bush knows about it, and Hilary. He claims the government is behind the huge meth problem in the state, and he can prove it, and they're all pissed off. He says because of this the police are following him, harassing him, trying to silence him.

He informs me that what he's telling me is a threat to our national security.

I ask him what he wants from me, and he says he wants me to help him. He doesn't know where to turn. I ask him if this is a joke, and he tells me no.

He starts asking weird questions, like am I recording the conversation, how old I am - totally random stuff. At this point I pretty much say that there's nothing I can do and I'm hanging up.

"You're in danger"

Wtf.

He tells me that I'm involved now and to lay low. I'm a little spooked, but for the most part think he's full of it. I hang up.

About 20 minutes later the police dept calls (we have caller ID), but when I answer nobody is on the other end.

I finally get off work and am walking to my car. In the distance I can see a car about 10 feet away from mine on the opposite side of the road. There's some fucking guy leaning out the passenger side window taking pictures of my plates. No - fucking - joke. When I get closer they speed off. It was a white, unmarked car. I couldn't tell if it was a cop car or not.

Basically I'm pretty freaked out right now. Either I'm the victim of a very elaborate prank, or...I don't even know. This whole thing is fucked up.

11-09-2007, 07:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
Repugnant Abomination Almost there... Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,979 Internets: 164547	An unsettling chain of events... I'm at work right now. I work at the University help desk and switch board (campus operator). I worked switch board today. Everything was going fine until I got a strange phone call... *Please note* this is 100% true, it just happened, and I'm very uneasy about it. The phone rings and I answer, "SOU, how can I direct your call?" On the other end of the line it's kind of...Scratchy. The voice is a man's, and he's irritated, almost frantic. He starts going off about how I need to call the police, right now, and tell them to stop harassing him. It totally caught me off guard. So I tell him I'm only the operator and I again ask him who he would like me to transfer him to. He informs me he's not a student here (yet) and the government is trying to stop him - whatever that means. At this point I'm pretty sure this is a prank call, but I'm morbidly curious, so I ask him why they're harassing him. He says because he's uncovered a huge government conspiracy in the state of Oregon, and that Bush knows about it, and Hilary. He claims the government is behind the huge meth problem in the state, and he can prove it, and they're all pissed off. He says because of this the police are following him, harassing him, trying to silence him. He informs me that what he's telling me is a threat to our national security. I ask him what he wants from me, and he says he wants me to help him. He doesn't know where to turn. I ask him if this is a joke, and he tells me no. He starts asking weird questions, like am I recording the conversation, how old I am - totally random stuff. At this point I pretty much say that there's nothing I can do and I'm hanging up. "You're in danger" Wtf. He tells me that I'm involved now and to lay low. I'm a little spooked, but for the most part think he's full of it. I hang up. About 20 minutes later the police dept calls (we have caller ID), but when I answer nobody is on the other end. I finally get off work and am walking to my car. In the distance I can see a car about 10 feet away from mine on the opposite side of the road. There's some fucking guy leaning out the passenger side window taking pictures of my plates. No - fucking - joke. When I get closer they speed off. It was a white, unmarked car. I couldn't tell if it was a cop car or not. Basically I'm pretty freaked out right now. Either I'm the victim of a very elaborate prank, or...I don't even know. This whole thing is fucked up.