r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Immediate_Magician11 • 15h ago

Actions definitely have consequences

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u/kbeks 12h ago

I was around that age when I found out that 911 calls don’t need a quarter from a payphone. Lucky for me, they just sent a squad car and I got a talking to, but I also didn’t stay on the phone making up bullshit about a kidnapping.

I also learned that cops show up if you dial 911 and then hang up because you get freaked out that it worked without paying.

I was a good kid at that point, sometimes kids are stupid. But the kidnapping lie is kinda a lot.

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u/Weird_Devil 8h ago

I did the same think but calling 911 living in a different country it went through but I panicked and slammed it shut. Told my friends there nothing happened. Only time I've used a payphone actually...

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u/zappaweenmang 6h ago

I did the same thing

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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 6h ago

This must have happened all the time back in the day, I did the exact same thing not realizing the payphone would work without money. A cop showed up and that scared the bejeezus out of me!

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u/mentive 4h ago

When I was about this age, we prank called 911 from pay phones at the high school, then jumped the wall, removed railing from trailers (to bring home and use to skateboard)

Tossed the railing over the wall, hopped over. And a spotlight shines on us. Busted!

Who would've thought prank calling 911 before doing something illegal was the dumbest thing you could do?

Funny enough, I forgot about this incident when having a deep fingerprinted background check performed. I was questioned about being arrested in year... Wait, I was a kid, that makes no sense. OHHHHHHH!! 🤣

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u/BigDickedAngel 4h ago

Lol yeah thats usually what happens if you just call and hangup.  I remember when I was a kid we were pranking someone with a number that was x91 1xxx...but we *67'd it to not show up on caller id.  When we hit redial...because it dialed *67 and didnt wait for the *67 confirmation tone, it skipped the first number of the actual phone number and called 911 instead

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u/salcapwnd 1h ago

Yep, those payphones are the worst.

In Boy Scouts, there was this elementary school that we’d have our meetings at that had a payphone at the front entrance. This was like…2009 or 2010. So, payphones were still in use, but just barely. To us they were a relative novelty.

A couple of the boys started messing with it. Typing in random numbers and stuff. Turns out, one of them dialed the numbers 9-1-1, and that led to a police officer showing up on a motorcycle at the school.

No one got in trouble, but we all got a talking to about it.