Feel like driving someone insane in a malicious way? Come on, everybody knows at least one person they'd like to drive bonkers. This Wrong Number Generator is a brilliantly simple way to do just that.
How's it work? Well, you plug your victim's phone into one end and run the other end into the wall jack and leave it to do its business. It'll then intercept any numbers that they dial and replace them with wrong numbers. This will be annoying. But the real coup? It'll let the right numbers through 25% of the time, making them think that the problem is with their fat, inaccurate fingers, not with the phone itself. All the while you can sit back knowing that you're causing lots of stress for your poor victim. Sweet.
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By Enzer Miliard at 6:08 PM ON 01/23/08
that could be funny and all........ but does it do it to 911........ cause it obviously would do it for local dispatchers.......
By duck at 9:40 AM ON 01/24/08
I'd rather have the opposite device. Plug into my own line and have it answer immediately to play some kind of "the number you have dialed is not in service" message whenever I don't feel like being bothered.
By OmegaOrder at 1:27 PM ON 01/24/08
Does this thing also re-direct those 911 calls that you try to make when your house is burning down? This sounds like a potentially deadly prank.
By me at 1:47 AM ON 01/27/08
25% success is too low. You should make it about 80-90%. It'll take them forever to figure out what is going on and why they keep dialing so many wrong numbers.
Oh yeah, and make sure 911 goes through. If they happen to keel over and die, and 911 failed and your finger prints are on the device when it's eventually found, then you'll be in deep shit.
By Matt at 2:30 AM ON 01/27/08
I'd rather have one that caused them to get lots of wrong numbers.
Then I wouldn't have to do it all the time.
By InnocentVictim at 10:51 PM ON 05/21/08
But don't you also drive innocent victims insane 75% of the time when the douche you're messing with tries to make a call?
Every time I get a wrong number, I'll think of you, and want to kill you ;) (emoticon for sarchasm so no one puts seriousness behind a percieved threat)
Seriously though, I hate when my phone rings, especially if it's a wrong number, moreso if it's a wrong numbewr from someone who 'no-speakey-da-inglish' and if your algorithm is to blame, well.... redesign.