Twice today I've gotten a phone call from the Brazos County Detention Center from "Drew", I don't know anyone named Drew so I've declined the call both times. If he calls again should I answer and let him know he's calling the wrong number? Or will that just piss him off and make him add me to his people-to-kill-after-getting-out-of-prison list?

He is probably pissed right now..

I got a call like that once at 3am. I remember thinking, I don't know no damn Brad. Sure enough, my cousin Brad got a d-dub. Not like he can give me hell for not answering, he was the one in the slammer.

Accepting it will likely cost you a $20 collect call charge and good luck getting it removed. Call the Sheriffs office they can block you number in their phone system.

UmustBKidding said:

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Accepting it will likely cost you a $20 collect call charge and good luck getting it removed. Call the Sheriffs office they can block you number in their phone system.

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The recording definitely said it was a free call or I wouldn't even think about answering.

I thought this thread was something completely different. The answer is my dad and the hardest call I've ever had to make.

They sometimes run scams to try to get you to dial codes to accept being billed for their future calling.

Oso96 said:

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I thought this thread was something completely different. The answer is my dad and the hardest call I've ever had to make.

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I called my boss once and my cousin once, both pretty easy calls actually.

My baby momma is in lockdown...


Makes you think

We had one these calls twenty or so years ago from someone in jail somewhere outside of Houston. Couldn't make out the name, so we refused the charges.

Definitely a scam, and one that has been going around for quite some time.

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Nice humble brag, OP. Not everybody has people that call them.

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If he calls again I'll give him your number.

redd38 said:

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HC said:

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Nice humble brag, OP. Not everybody has people that call them.

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If he calls again I'll give him your number.

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Appreciate it. It gets lonely on the outside

This is your chance for adventure.

Take the call, explain that he has the wrong number....but find out who he's trying to call, and make the call for him. In other words, insert yourself into the situation. Maybe get close his party...and figure out what's going on. Make yourself useful to them in someway, to protect yourself.

I have a feeling, very soon...you'll be in the middle of a Breaking Bad type situation.

I thought you only got 1 phone call. How the hell did he get 2

wangus12 said:

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I thought you only got 1 phone call. How the hell did he get 2

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That's what really makes me feel bad. He probably had to suck off a guard or something to make that second call that I didn't answer.

The "one phone call" thing is a crock of crap. You get as many collect calls as you want when you first get booked. Trust me on this.

Ever seen Prison Break? Those guys are on the phone the whole freaking time.

crowman2010 said:

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The "one phone call" thing is a crock of crap. You get as many collect calls as you want when you first get booked. Trust me on this.

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I didn't.

Way back, I was 17 years old, got a PI. Had just started my car after eating breakfast at Denny's on I-35, baylro cops pulled up behind my car. One said I was lucky, as if I had put it in reverse, they could have gotten me for DWI.

Anyway, got booked into the city jail. They held me for 8 hours before I called my Dad to come get me out. Funny part is my parents were pissed off at the cops more than they were at me. They had been up all night after calling in a missing person on me.

Cops couldn't find me because I sitting in their jail.

Maybe a year later, that got removed from my record. The Mom of a girl I knew worked in the city government, on her own, she got a judge to take it off my record. Maybe two years later, I was living in Arlington, & saw a story that the Mom got arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from the government.

Anyway, my record got cleared. I had to go through security checks for a US government contractor in the aerospace business.

petey88 said:

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crowman2010 said:

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The "one phone call" thing is a crock of crap. You get as many collect calls as you want when you first get booked. Trust me on this.

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I didn't.

Way back, I was 17 years old, got a PI. Had just started my car after eating breakfast at Denny's on I-35, baylro cops pulled up behind my car. One said I was lucky, as if I had put it in reverse, they could have gotten me for DWI.

Anyway, got booked into the city jail. They held me for 8 hours before I called my Dad to come get me out. Funny part is my parents were pissed off at the cops more than they were at me. They had been up all night after calling in a missing person on me.

Cops couldn't find me because I sitting in their jail.

Maybe a year later, that got removed from my record. The Mom of a girl I knew worked in the city government, on her own, she got a judge to take it off my record. Maybe two years later, I was living in Arlington, & saw a story that the Mom got arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from the government.

Anyway, my record got cleared. I had to go through security checks for a US government contractor in the aerospace business.

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Well...Harris County has the phones built into the wall...you have to put your ear up against the thing...so unsanitary

lol, poor Drew. Probably gave up assuming the person he was trying to call is teaching him a life lesson.

He called again! He's been in jail over a week waiting for me to come bail him out! This time it said the call was gonna cost money though so I didn't answer again. Sorry Drew.

Maybe it's drew carey and...


YOU'RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT!!!!

petey88 said:

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crowman2010 said:

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The "one phone call" thing is a crock of crap. You get as many collect calls as you want when you first get booked. Trust me on this.

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I didn't.

Way back, I was 17 years old, got a PI. Had just started my car after eating breakfast at Denny's on I-35, baylro cops pulled up behind my car. One said I was lucky, as if I had put it in reverse, they could have gotten me for DWI.

Anyway, got booked into the city jail. They held me for 8 hours before I called my Dad to come get me out. Funny part is my parents were pissed off at the cops more than they were at me. They had been up all night after calling in a missing person on me.

Cops couldn't find me because I sitting in their jail.

Maybe a year later, that got removed from my record. The Mom of a girl I knew worked in the city government, on her own, she got a judge to take it off my record. Maybe two years later, I was living in Arlington, & saw a story that the Mom got arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from the government.

Anyway, my record got cleared. I had to go through security checks for a US government contractor in the aerospace business.

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My getting arrested stories are way cooler than yours.

ATX_AG_08 said:

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petey88 said:

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crowman2010 said:

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The "one phone call" thing is a crock of crap. You get as many collect calls as you want when you first get booked. Trust me on this.

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I didn't.

Way back, I was 17 years old, got a PI. Had just started my car after eating breakfast at Denny's on I-35, baylro cops pulled up behind my car. One said I was lucky, as if I had put it in reverse, they could have gotten me for DWI.

Anyway, got booked into the city jail. They held me for 8 hours before I called my Dad to come get me out. Funny part is my parents were pissed off at the cops more than they were at me. They had been up all night after calling in a missing person on me.

Cops couldn't find me because I sitting in their jail.

Maybe a year later, that got removed from my record. The Mom of a girl I knew worked in the city government, on her own, she got a judge to take it off my record. Maybe two years later, I was living in Arlington, & saw a story that the Mom got arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from the government.

Anyway, my record got cleared. I had to go through security checks for a US government contractor in the aerospace business.

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My getting arrested stories are way cooler than yours.

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Story time!

cool, have a cookie

only time I got far, I got one with my 2 of my best friends getting it, fight at Fort Worth bar.

I tried to bail em out, and their goodAg Dad shows up at 3 AM at the Tarrant County jail. First time I met their Dad,...I was moving into the brothers house. Dad says, "you don't know what you are getting yourself into".

40 year friends, the whole gang

Working nights on the radio when I was 20 was a blast.

Me: "Hello B-104"
Other line "A prisoner from the Hidalgo County Jail is calling you. "HEY CHARPIE, CAN YOU PLAY "THIS IS HOW WE DO IT BY MONTEL JORD.." would like to speak to you. Would you like to take the call?"
Me: "Nope!"