Punk'd

Summer's here.

Bushfires, first cherries, fake tan. Sandalled tourists content to do nothing but muse on the best way to spend money. Wandering down Trafalgar St, pausing at Bridge.

"Is there anything down that way?"

"Nah."

Tuis in the flax. Kids out of school.

Bored kids.

Josh was out of the office on Friday morning, on a research trip in Auckland. Like a good cube-mate I take calls for him and picked up his phone to hear a concerned young man on the other end of the line. He'd been the target of some vicious prank phone calls and was hoping to warn the rest of Nelson.

He sounded hurt.

"I just thought you should know this guy's been calling me and trying to sell me stuff and then swearing really badly at me," he moaned. He had the raspy voice of the boy turning into the half-teenage boy. Of an age where in a single year he goes from doing bombs in the swimming pool to drinking Tui and crashing cars.

"Oh?"

"Yeah, he's called me a few times."

"What did he say?"

"Just that this guy said his name was Troy Baker and he was from Sky TV and was trying to sell me subscriptions and stuff and then he would just swear at me and then hang up. He's rung a few different times for different things."

He went on for a few minutes. It sounded fair enough. I pushed RECORD so I could double-check it later. He was warming up now. Sometimes I had to stop myself from laughing.

"You heard this guy rang the SPCA and asked if they had any cats and dogs to eat?"

"Yeah. I heard it happened a few more time around Nelson. He says his name's Troy Baker, and I heard he called McDonald's and was trying to sell them stuff and then swearing at them and hanging up," he said. "I thought Nelson people should know about it."

"I take it you don't know any Troy Baker."

"No."

The calls he'd been getting were definitely worse than the anonymous person in our office who used to call the Sandal family in Motueka and ask to speak to Roman. The guy was obviously a bit shaken up. 

"So I suppose we'll try and find out a few more people who've had phone calls. What was your name again?"

"It's Troy Baker and YOU'VE BEEN PRANKED YOU F***** B****! HAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHA!!"

Click.

I feel so dirty. 

- © Fairfax NZ News

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Troy Baker   #1   09:20 am Nov 30 2009

You got punkd! Baker rulzzz for life

Adam   #2   02:23 pm Dec 16 2009

troy baker seems like a dick

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