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When a Stranger Calls

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Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, February 13, 2006 - 5:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Don't even bother with it :-( Scary movies are my thing, and this was so bad and so boring and so not scary that I couldn't even laugh at it. The original is 1000x times better. I kinda knew it was going to be bad when it starts out that the girl has to babysit as a punishment because her dad was ticked off that she went 800 minutes over on her cell phone. Really, it was terrible.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Monday, February 13, 2006 - 9:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
...he's asking for his money back.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
well, what i don't get (and of course, this is based on urban legend) is that the guy could not have been calling from inside the house if she was on the house phone when she answered. it would have taken a long time and a court order to see where someone used a cell phone from. so i'd have to get past the stupidity to get into the scary and i kind gave up on scary since i turned 10 or 11 and creature features went off the air! i haven't seen a truly good horror picture in decades.
i doubt i'll even ever rent this film...

Naja
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06-28-2003

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Tabby, you are going to be astonished at this real life story of mine. You know how you can make a call and have it charged to your home phone? Well someone was doing that to me in the early 90's. I had about 60 dollars worth of long distance calls to my phone, not made from my phone. After calling to complain the phone company said they would check into it. In the mean time, that type of charge was blocked. The next day a very nice woman called me, from a payphone (she said). She told me she works for the phone company and they aren't allowed to just give out this information. She gave me the phone numbers from where the charges originated (there were 3 different ones). I dialed the first one, and guess who answered? The girl who had just been fired from the place I was working at the time. I told her she was caught and better not try it again. She didn't. Thank you phone company person!..LOL

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
naja, when i lived in berkeley, i got some charges to my phone that weren't mine. the phone company insists the calls were made FROM my phone, not just charged to my phone. a lot were made when i was not even home, but no one had broken in. turns out some genius student was able to duplicate the tones of the different numbers. i had a pretty easy number, something like 848-8118. i can't remember exactly, but there were only 3 different numbers, therefore, only 3 different tones the guy had to duplicate. i can't recall now if they said he actually used his voice or had made some type of synthesizer with those exact tones.
i had calls to huge company owners' private estates in states i have never been to. most of them were to unlisted numbers. it took a while to get it straightened out. how i would know the unlisted number of the president of general electric or whatever large company, i have no idea! at first, the phone company would not even tell me who i had supposedly called! after that, i mostly got phone numbers with a lot of different numbers in them, although i'm sure phones go by something other than 'tones' now.

Westtexan
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07-16-2004

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Westtexan a private message Print Post    
Actually you can call from the same phone number in a house. I remember family get-togethers at my grandmother's where my older cousins would use the phone in the hall to call that same number and immediately put their finger on the whatchamacallit doohicky which disconnects the phone. Then the phone would start ringing. From the hallway my cousins watched my grandmother pick up the phone and answer it so that they immediately took their finger off the doohicky and could then talk on the line. However, they couldn't hold their cool long enough to follow through on their practical joke and started giggling into the mouth piece before asking Meme if her refrigerator was running.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 4:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
you could have multiple lines in one house. we always had 2 lines growing up. my line and my parent's line.