OK, now I've heard everything

[firecat]

I just got a phone call. I picked it up and said "Hello". I heard a
recorded message that said:

We are sorry to disturb you. This message was intended to be heard only by an answering machine. Thank you.

Comments

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

That's AWESOME.

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

!

[cha.livejournal.com]

HAHAH man

[auntysocial.livejournal.com]

and I thought it was funny to get a bill for no money.....

[kightp.livejournal.com]

*blink*

Great. Now the machines are talking to each other.

Unless something has changed...

[crazed-lynn.livejournal.com]

And things might have changed in the years since I looked all this up, It is not permissible for a automated calling system to call a human being for calls originating in California. This sounds like a goofy atttempt to outwit that bit of regulation (or statute, I can't remember which).

Supposedly, if you answer you phone, and it's a California call, there will be a real person on the other end.

Re: Unless something has changed...

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, is that not true. George Bush, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Jesse Jackson, and more have called me, not to mention carpet cleaning firms and aluminum sidings firms.

I have not, however, gotten anything like what firecat reports. That is beyond description.

Re: Unless something has changed...

[dancing-star.livejournal.com]

Oh really?
I don't pick my phone up anyways, but I always have computers calling...

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Wooooow. That story could so easily be warped to imply a clandestine meeting of machines while their owners are out ...

-J

[redbird]

From an alternate universe in which answering machines record messages and then never play them for you, because they don't want to bother you.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

The MACHINES are RISING UP!! HIDE!

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

I've got this too. My assumption is that it's some sort of scam where they leave an 'urgent' message on your machine asking you to call a number that turns out to be a premium one.