More fake 911 calls from my house!

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I know last time I was accused of making this up when it happened and it was one call, but this time there were 22 calls! I want to know how this could happen, if it could be the ipod thing my daughter has downloaded to call people, or what. We were the ONLY house he went to too, and that pisses me off.

OK, night before last at about 10:30 me and DH were in bed, youngest son was gone for the night, both daughters and the fiancé were just sitting around doing their own things online. The doorbell goes bananas "DINGDONGDINGDONGDINGDONGDINGDONG" over and over until somebody gets there running full out. Everybodys thinking that the youngest son forgot his key cause that's what he does when that happens but no, it's the cop. Different one this time from the last 911 curiosity, this one was Cal. (Not his real name, but close). Now, Cal is the one that's real short and so he's got a chip on his shoulder and plus my husband had called him a midget once and he still hasn't got over that. So the first thing he does isn't ask if we are ok. He says "What the hell, theres 22 911 calls from here dispatch says, and nobody says nothing!" And of course by this time, everyone that was on the porch (me and both my daughters) both said "What the hell?" back, because we didn't know either. I had come running in my nightgown (DH didn't get out of bed and wasn't going to unless somebody was dead or there was a fire that meant he had to move and the fiancé doesn't deal with cops) so I said let me get my bathrobe and phones and I did and came back and then sent the girls to get all the phones. I asked Cal what happened and told him we didn't call nobody and there weren't any pocket 911 calls like my phone makes sometimes, cause the girl calls me back when that happens. My phone was on my night table. Nobody called 911.

Anyway so then he leaves and not ten minutes later he's back. It's started again. We bring him all the phones again and show him they are off. DH had got up and not happily and was on the porch talking to him so he wasn't as cocky this time. Eventually, he left.

Here is what I want to know. Well, several things, but what could cause that? Obviously it's something calling 911. But our phones didn't do it. Could that voice call app for the ipod be doing it? If so though, it wasn't picking up people from here whispering and laughing like the dispatch girl said. Why would they pick just my house and not any other houses on the street? He said it was like GPS but there were no other phones in this house that could have called, and plus nobody was whispering and laughing. What could have made that happen that way? Could somebody nearby be doing it and Cal just came here to f**k with us cause it's us and he figured that we would do that kind of thing? What could cause that, what kind of tracking do they use, and how close would somebody be for that to look like here? Did it actually show up as <my address> or did it show up as <near here on this block> and Cal just decided it was here and we should get woke up and f****d with over it?

How does that work? DH was pissed and told him that nobody was calling 911 from here and this is the second time tonight that he's been told that and if he comes back about that BS again then 911 is gonna be called. Somebody give me some decent idea please.

My advice is to tell the phone company what has happened. Maybe they can shed some light on what is going on.

Which phone company? We don't have a landline and there are tons of providers for cell service. We have three different providers for the phones in this house, not counting the ipod app that my daughter uses. Dispatch didn't have any idea of the number of the phone that called or the provider or anything like that. It was just GPS traced to here, and nobody here was doing that.

If they hear whispering and laughing in the background, someone's screwing around with you somewhere, I bet. Can you call-forward a call to 911 to make it look like it came from a different number? I hope you don't have to change your phone number over this.

There is no number hat it came from. It was a GPS location. I would have to move! (That doesn't seem like such a bad idea though lol)

It was probably the cat.

Catch 22.

I heart you.

It was probably the cat.

Catch 22.

Seems more likely to be the GPS that's screwy.

911 should be able to identify the number that the call is coming from.

whats the app called?
if its skype then it cant call 911

That's a bummer,because if you really need to dial 911 the cops will just think it's another glitch.

No, they will send somebody out here, and anytime I've called 911 by accident when the phone is in my pocket, the girl calls me back to see if everything is ok or if they need to send somebody. My phone has a lock and if I push a button without unlocking it then it asks if it's an emergency call. If I hit the yes button it dials 911. That's happened with it in my pocket before and she calls me back. It shows a phone number that it's calling from then. This the other night, Cal said dispatch had no phone number for it, that it just gave a GPS location. That was what was so weird.