My phone line has become self-aware. Judgement Day is imminent!
For the past week we’ve been having problems with our landline Verizon phone line. We first noticed the problem when my wife called home and it gave her a busy signal, which is odd since we have call waiting. I never heard the call and wasn’t on the phone, and realized it was a line issue when it didn’t work at the NID outside either.
I filled out an online Verizon repair ticket that night and it worked in the morning….and then broke again, and then magically worked. Now we come to a week later today and the phone does the same thing (with other odd “quirks” like ringing once when you call it and static) and also doesn’t work from the NID. I called Verizon this time and they said it wouldn’t be until Monday when a tech could come out.
So, the wife is watching TV and I’m on the computer and the doorbell rings. I open the door to see 2 city cops at my doorstep with hands on their guns, asking if anyone placed a 911 call from the house and hung up. I told them that would be impossible, since the phone wasn’t working at all. They seemed to know this was something they’d seen before, and I let them know I had called Verizon to have it repaired. When I went back inside, I realized that my only phone isn’t even plugged in, since I took it outside to test at the NID and didn’t hook it back up to the wall jack - There’s no way my phone did this itself. I called Verizon again and now since my fucking phone has become self-aware and is calling 911 for me, I get to have a tech come out tomorrow. So the moral of the story is, to get faster repair service just tell them there’s 911 calls coming from your broken phone I guess.
I have never heard of this and I didn’t even think it was possible, but then I read this recent forum post on DSL Reports - http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20151915-911-call-on-DSL-line-with-no-phone - so apparently this isn’t a rare occurance. Has anyone else had this happen to them? I’m sitting here now wondering if I’m going to get a doorbell ring at 3am, and if I don’t get up fast enough they’ll bust down my damn door and think I’m fucking with the cops or something. I can’t really call the police and say “Ignore all 911 calls from my house” because that’d be the one time I actually need to call 911.
