In the ever-growing world of prank phone calls, there is always that slight possibility that the next person you jack around with is going to take it seriously. I had a close call when the manager at a semi-local entertainment center (go-karts, arcade games, etc.) tried to bust us. Even though I was a rookie, I knew my stuff, and I wasn't gonna let anyone take me down.

It was a hot August night, and Matt, one of my two co-PhOnEyS, and I decided to make some calls. We made the Jordan shoes call, which was featured on our web page (SHAMELESS PLUG). Next we dialed up this entertainment center, and Matt was asking all the teenagers that worked there "How fast do the bumper boats go?" and other zany questions. They kept hanging up, so being the smackoffs we are, we kept the calls coming. I even managed to slip a "Sonofabitch, I kill you!" in there.

"How fast do the bumper boats go?"

The calls were getting good, but the dickheads kept hanging up on us! Not to be outdone, Matt calls back and asks why they hung up, because he wants to know which arcade games are the best, so he "doesn't waste his well-earned quarters on something stupid."

After it got old we decided not to call back, but the phone rang. I answered it, and the manager said he had my number, and he was calling the cops if we didn't stop harassing his workers. I forgot all about recording his incoming call, or we could've got a great ending on tape. You see, we tape our calls using WinDat, so in order for us to get that last part where the guy called back, I had to either save the call really, really fast, or hurry and open a new WinDat.

Can you believe that? Someone calls us, and we prank them?

It happened again last February, when some bitch called me about subscribing to a newspaper. When I got off the phone, she must have redialed for some ungodly reason, so I recorded the whole call, asking the poor old lady for her phone number, but she wouldn't give it out, cause "there would be a barrage of men at her door."

Just to let ya know, The PhOnEyS are on the road to recovery. A new tape, "Pranks From The Vault--The Sequel" is on the way. We've already made a couple of calls, but we're a little rusty.

And one more thing, don't ever let the law get in the way of a good time! (...Cops suck though, so just don't get caught!)

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