Having worked out that we are no longer sending ambulances to that address that might just be a Woolworth’s in the East End, our obsessive hoaxer has now taken to telling us he is at Gatwick Airport. Sitting on the runaway. Suffering from an itchy penis. Offering us bananas. I must have spoken to him twenty times last night.
I swear that if I ever come across this individual, I will do something with a banana which necessitates a genuine phone call to the emergency services.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
During a gig in Folkestone a good few years ago, a drunken twat at the front wouldn’t stop gobbing on the band (The Stranglers). Presumably he was trying to recapture the spirit of the punk summer of ’77 or something. Whatever, the band didn’t like it, and after ignoring three requests for him to stop, Hugh Cornwell had him dragged onto the stage by the security people and then did do something with a banana that could easily have required some kind of medical intervention. The idiot was then ejected from the stage door. If an ambulance was called, I wouldn’t have heard it over the Stranglers going about their business with renewed vigour. Happy days.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
what’s the number to call again
August 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
what’s the number to call again
can i give my real address
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
eye watering!!
sideways i hope
August 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Read this and thought of you…
“Fla. man dials 911, complains his sub had no sauce”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_911_SANDWICH_CALL?SITE=INEVA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
August 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Gatwick? I did my observation shift in the room recently and it was London city then. I got in at 10 and he had phoned up 15 times already! It was quite an insight I tell you!
August 5th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I’ve just had my first shift last night, and this knob did at least 5 calls. He is indeed now back at gatwick, this time saying that his girlfriend has collapsed on the runway.
I take solace in the fact that one day he will actually need an ambulance, but we will be under instruction to terminate his calls on connection. Natural selection at work? I think so.
It was amusing the first time I heard it. It was NOT amusing when we are handwriting tickets and he calls 5 times in a row.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Any idea what rules mean that you can’t have the police track him down? Any idea who sets or enforces those? I can see a movement for a campaign here…
August 6th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Part of a Act you may fine interesting
Telecommunications Act 1984
s43 Improper use of public telecommunication system
(1) A person who–
(a) sends, by means of a public telecommunication system, a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
(b) sends by those means, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, a message that he knows to be false or persistently makes use for that purpose of a public telecommunication system, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
By what you said he has broken S43 1.b he could of broken S43 1.a, If depending on what you find grossly offensive or indecent.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:21 am
NB it is now Section 127 of Communications Act, 2003. that deals with false messages and persistent misuse intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience
August 7th, 2008 at 9:08 am
They did. One one occasion they apparently even figured out that he was on a bus, but obviously he hasn’t been arrested yet.
They have disabled his phone on numerous occasions, but he just keeps buying new sim cards.
They should make the number harder to dial!
August 7th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I have a friend who used to work the reservations phones for a major airline. They used to have a frequent-caller who they nicknamed the pantie-man. Seemed every time he called, he just wanted the girls to describe their undergarments to him.
She used to laugh about trying to sell him an airfare while he kept pestering for her lingerie details.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am
[...] Source: Banana Man [...]