I am so hoping this is a wrong number

[drakyndra]

I gonna kill ya

...Because that's a real comforting message to get on your mobile when you're home alone.

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[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

Holy Impossible Planet, Batman!

Drakyndra, don't turn around...

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that the first thing I did after reading this comment was to check what was behind me (Absolutely nothing, as it so happens, but the thought still counts)?

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

*sighs*

If you get all deep-throated and rune-y, don't come possessing me. My workplace would get shirty about having that much ink.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I don't even know where your workplace is.

...Can demonic entities travel via the Internet? I know that one on Buffy could, but that's Buffy.

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

*shudder* I still have nightmares about first season Buffy. Oh god, the special effects!

...Willow was cute as heck, though. :)

I work at Oxford University Press, which I figure gets me nerd points what with Mulder/Giles studying there. Oh, and the books. If you ever need textbooks, give me a yell - I get an awesomely large discount for all publishers. :D

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I can barely even remember most of S1 Buffy, I saw it so long ago.

I shall keep that in mind for future semesters. I have no idea if your press is responsible for any of my required books, but a lot of things I've referenced on essays seem to come from there.

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

It's still great - cheesy as hell, but it still makes you laugh.

Oh, that's the beautiful thing! I get a discount for all publishers. Ever. Not necessarily as big as the internal OUP discount, but still largeish (a mate of my girlfriend is saving about four hundred dollars by buying through me - psychology is expensive). I'm also willing to get any non-textbook that strikes your fancy. It's saving me from spending a ton of money in Minotaur, thank god.


(You've just brought it to my attention that I have no Buffy icons. Gotta fix that...)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I have no Buffy icons, either, though I've sort of drifted away from it in past years.

I do still have a Firefly icon or two, though!

...I shall keep these things in mind. ;)

[fierydream.livejournal.com]

... D:

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

I'm hoping it's just a wrong number. It's not a private no, so if I wanted, I could call back.

If I wanted...

[fierydream.livejournal.com]

My sense of morbid curiosity says you should call them back and ask "Why?"

Although that's ... possibly not the sanest course of action. Don't do it!

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

That was my thought.

I have been known to respond to wrong numbers, which can be fun. This is probably not the best one to respond to, though.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'd say the sanest course of action is to tell someone large and burly, if not go to the police.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well I survived the night without being murdered in my sleep (or getting any more messages), so I think I'll just go with it being a wrong number.

[merinnan.livejournal.com]

There's a new SMS scam going around Vic, NSW and WA where SMS messages are sent threatening to kill you if you don't deposit a certain amount of money in a bank account ($5k, I think). If that's the message you got, call Crimestoppers.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Nah, the bit I posted was the message in it's entirety. I'm not dumb enough to fall for stupid scams like that. (I actually got a Nigeran scammer spam email the other day. Only edited so that it was some Chinese bloke affected by the earthquake)

[merinnan.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I'd consider calling them/your local police anyway, especially if it's got you really on edge. If the number's not silent, they can find who sent it. At the very least, a call from the police might make them rethink stupid stunts like that.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I'm not that worried, honestly. I've gotten some really quite odd wrong number messages before, this one just is a little stranger than most. I'd be more worried if it was from someone I actually knew.

[khallandra.livejournal.com]

I guess if you get more you can report the bastards and hopefully they might get to catching them.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

But for now I'm just chalking it up to a wrong number and a probably out of context comment.

[londonesque.livejournal.com]

WTF?! *hugs you* It's probably just some idiot kid doing a practical joke, but will you report it to the police any way?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It's probably a wrong number - I seem to get a few of them.

And for now I'm just going to ignore it. If I get any more messages from the same number, then I'll do something about it.

[londonesque.livejournal.com]

I hope that's the case *hugs*

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Me two. But all seems well thus far.

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

That is on a par with the phone calls we got about an impending tsunami. That was actually part of a marketing campaign thing, except 90% of people didn't hear that disclaimer.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

People have some odd, odd ideas about what makes for good marketing these days.

[iko.livejournal.com]

I would totally text back "I gonna get you first".

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I am not sure I want to actually want to contact this person, wrong number or not.

[iko.livejournal.com]

*nods*

That reminds me of the voicemail I once got on my cellphone. The guy was all "Hey [garbled male-sounding name], it's me. I GOT THE STUFF. Man, I GOT THE STUFF. Talk to you later, peace." I ignored it, since it was clearly a wrong number and not intended for me, but it was still amusing and my partner and I thought of some creative ways to send a message back.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I know someone who once rang back their wrong number, and started up a conversation.

It was hilarious to listen to - the side I could hear, anyway.

(Note: This occurred in a pub)

[keldaryth.livejournal.com]

Might be the start of a con... there's a memo going around about a scam where people get SMSed "I'm going to kill you" and "I've been hired to kill you - pay me $5000 and I won't"

If that happens - go to the police. They're trying to track down who's doing it.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, I ignored the first message, and haven't gotten anything else from them.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

Dude. I too would probably call back and ask why. But then I'm perverse like that.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I considered it. But decided that, just in case, it wasn't the smartest idea.

[romanticizing.livejournal.com]

Meep, that's a bit terrifying :o

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It was... unexpected.