Seriously, is there something in the water making people crazy?
You know how last week I posted about how bad things happen to my taxi drivers and people generally suck?
It wasn't serious... I mean, it wasn't like someone called and said "there is a bomb in car 289" or anything. It was this weird call that I got... and the person was whispering/raspy, and at first I was like, "Sir, I can't understand a word you're saying!" So then he kind of speaks up, but still whispering/raspy, and what he say is: "There is a bomb in the car." And I'm all *open mouth* and then he repeats it.
So the thing is, the dumbass doesn't call-block his number. So his phone number and address are ON MY COMPUTER SCREEN. And I TELL HIM that I have his phone number and address, and that I'll have to report the call to the police. And he kind of makes this mumbly noise, and then he says: "Kill you all." Twice.
Niiiice.
So I hang up and call the police. I mean, I knew it was most likely a crank call, but you can't mess around with stuff like this. We checked to see if anyone had picked up at his address, and no-one had, and sent messages to all our drivers to see if anybody dropped off at his address, and got no responses. So we were pretty sure we were safe, because there was no way to physically check 200+ cars.
Anyway, about a thousand police cars showed up immediately to take a report, and then they went to the loser's house. It was three guys and the police determined that "for all intents and purposes, they believe it to be a crank call". Um, yeah. I told the cop that called that I hope they scared the bejeebers out of the guy. The cop said, "tit for tat, right?" Right. Jesus Christ, no wonder I'm so grey.
But in happy news, my lovely dianaryan was not affected by the Hawaiian earthquake except for losing power for 20 hours. So good to know she's safe and sound (and beeping into my ear via IM right now!)
It wasn't serious... I mean, it wasn't like someone called and said "there is a bomb in car 289" or anything. It was this weird call that I got... and the person was whispering/raspy, and at first I was like, "Sir, I can't understand a word you're saying!" So then he kind of speaks up, but still whispering/raspy, and what he say is: "There is a bomb in the car." And I'm all *open mouth* and then he repeats it.
So the thing is, the dumbass doesn't call-block his number. So his phone number and address are ON MY COMPUTER SCREEN. And I TELL HIM that I have his phone number and address, and that I'll have to report the call to the police. And he kind of makes this mumbly noise, and then he says: "Kill you all." Twice.
Niiiice.
So I hang up and call the police. I mean, I knew it was most likely a crank call, but you can't mess around with stuff like this. We checked to see if anyone had picked up at his address, and no-one had, and sent messages to all our drivers to see if anybody dropped off at his address, and got no responses. So we were pretty sure we were safe, because there was no way to physically check 200+ cars.
Anyway, about a thousand police cars showed up immediately to take a report, and then they went to the loser's house. It was three guys and the police determined that "for all intents and purposes, they believe it to be a crank call". Um, yeah. I told the cop that called that I hope they scared the bejeebers out of the guy. The cop said, "tit for tat, right?" Right. Jesus Christ, no wonder I'm so grey.
But in happy news, my lovely dianaryan was not affected by the Hawaiian earthquake except for losing power for 20 hours. So good to know she's safe and sound (and beeping into my ear via IM right now!)