Good old hoax calls...
Forget the usual emergency services calls, apart from it costing me money now as a taxpayer, it wastes their time and I might need their help one day. We used to dial random numbers and inform the person answering that they'd been entered in a competition by a friend and they'd won...if I rememver rightly it was a blow up Lolita sex doll when a bloke answered and a 10" Big Mick vibrator for the Laydeez. Some of them were really excited, but I'd imagine that wore off after waiting for the Postie in the nip for a few days.

This was well before 141 and caller id stuff by the way.
(RTFM May your god go with you, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:32, 2 replies)

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Well, I suppose as it's confession time, we used to call the Samaritans and tell them stuff like our headmaster had been interfering with us.

They used to seem to take it all very seriously, but on reflection I'm quite sure they knew we were just dickhead kids, but were duty bound to play along with it just in case.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:12, closed)

It was Childline for us
We'd usually end the call with, "Oh, shit, he's coming now. No, PLEASE..." then end with a blood-curdling scream, and hang up the phone. Looking back, I hope none of the calls were taken seriously...
(Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 16:20, closed)

we used to tell them
they'd won a condom machine and a video box set of emmerdale farm.
it was still a farm back then, you see.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 17:53, closed)