Why do people make prank calls?

The Malay Mail;  October 17, 2007 ;   Najmuddin Najib;   346 words ......Rescue Department received 100 prank calls daily. More shocking was that from...the numbers was linked to 3,000 prank calls while the other wasn't much better...arrested after he had placed 388 prank calls to the local fire station. The...

Suspect arrested for false 911 calls at Texas A&M

University Wire;  February 21, 2001 ;   Brady Creel;   599 words ......911 system. "We have experienced [prank calls] with this ... man in the past...said the amount of malicious 911 prank calls is relatively low for College Station...year; only about 25 were malicious prank calls, he said. "It can be a serious...

Is Mr C Lyon there? PRANKSTERS SWAMP ZOO WITH 700 CALLS AN HR.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  April 25, 2008 ;     307 words ......driven wild by more than 700 calls an HOUR from phone pranksters...received more than 100,000 calls over a two-week period. And...last night it appeared the calls may be the result of a comedy...said: We do get occasional prank calls but this is an epidemic....couldn't cope with the amount ...

Prank calls for help are costing city services dearly.(News)

Pretoria News (South Africa);  January 9, 2007 ;     555 words ......when it comes to responding to prank calls for help. The city's emergency...own tail daily with more than 20 prank calls. Tshwane Metro Police staff receive up to 15 prank calls a month. Last week alone the Metro...

City wants fines for crank calls to 911 Last year, call center got 330,000...

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 18, 2004 ;   Fran Spielman;   481 words ...People who get their kicks making prank calls to Chicago's 911 center could find...is one reason for the volume of prank calls, Huberman said. Tracking technology...people making bomb threats and prank calls to 911. Norman Forshee, LaSalle...

3,800 prank calls to 911 came from 1 house Worst offenders could soon be...

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 18, 2005 ;   Fran Spielman;   514 words ......period that ended Tuesday, 3,896 prank calls to Chicago's 911 emergency center...and desist" immediately. If the prank calls continue, fines ranging from $500...there has been a 14 percent drop in prank calls. Pinpointing cell phones "We're...

GIRL FLOODS 911 WITH 100 PRANK CALLS.(FRONT)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  February 20, 2007 ;     211 words ......cell phone to make more than 100 prank calls to 911, in some cases swearing or...girl's parents were unaware of the calls, he said. She was swearing, Risseeuw...herself as Matthew when she made the calls, won't be charged or referred to...

Penalty harsher for prank 911 calls.

Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN);  August 3, 2007 ;     540 words ......County Sheriff's Department, said prank calls are a chronic problem. Last Tuesday...said his center may get only six prank calls a year. But when it does happen...dispatchers have their fair share of prank calls. When someone decides to do it...

Girl makes 100 fake 911 calls

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 20, 2007 ;     29 words ...SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- An 8-year-old girl used her mother's cell phone to make more than 100 prank calls to 911, a sheriff's deputy said Monday. The girl was left to her parents' punishment.

Prank calls may be linked to dorm fire

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 20, 1997 ;     217 words ......effort to determine whether several prank calls reported by Greenville College students...investigators about unsettling telephone calls reportedly received around the time...Friday to be more specific about the calls, although college officials have...

Beloit teens charged in prank 911 calls

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 2, 1997 ;     136 words ......for using a cellular phone to make prank calls that tied up police for almost an...old started calling in prank 911 calls shortly before midnight on Oct. 24...spent about an hour responding to the calls, the youths started to narrow the...

911 dispatchers take all calls seriously.

Free Press (Kinston, NC);  May 7, 2006 ;     787 words ......tree to a life-threatening situation. He also gets prank calls, juvenile jokes that might seem harmless to the...types of calls, it doesn't record the number of prank calls, since all calls are treated as emergencies. Improvements in 911...

Prank Calls Spook 'Other' Clintons

AP Online;  February 8, 2005 ;     410 words ......Dateline: NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Prank calls are nothing new for the famously...unidentified caller made several calls to Clinton's home Jan. 29, telling...to disturb all the neighbors with calls that would appear to come from Clinton...

Emergency calls to go on tape

New Straits Times;  November 25, 2007 ;   Alang Bendahara;   205 words ......Commission (MCMC) is aimed at reducing prank calls. MCMC corporate communications...legal action against those who make prank calls," said Tahir in a statement yesterday...abused by their children to make prank calls, while prepaid users could be traced...

AFTER COP'S DEATH, MORE PRANK CALLS

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 3, 1993 ;   JIM CONSOLI, Staff Writer;   641 words ......12-03-1993 AFTER COP'S DEATH, MORE PRANK CALLS By JIM CONSOLI, Staff Writer...obtained tapes of the two 911 calls, which were made Nov. 23...copies of the tapes from the calls and are trying to match the...investigation has determined that the calls on Nov. 23 and 24 were made...whoever ...