Didn't know the late Charles Durning was in it. I was his doorman for almost 5 years back in the 90s.
Posted on 10/06/2018 11:23:53 AM PDT by ETL
Dr. Claire Simeone, the director of the Kei Kai Ola hospital for Hawaiian monk seals..." Earlier this week, Simeone had just left work for lunch when her phone started ringing. A lot.
"I thought maybe someone had a seal-related question," Simeone wrote on Twitter earlier today (Oct. 5). "I picked up. Silence."
Seconds later, Simeone's phone rang again — and then again, and again. Each time she answered, there was nothing but eerie silence. After receiving nine identical calls in 15 minutes, Simeone "started to panic," she said. The calls were apparently coming from inside the hospital, so she rushed back to work, worried that a "seal emergency" was transpiring in her absence.
There was no emergency (thankfully), seal or otherwise. In fact, Simeone's co-workers said nobody had tried to call her at all.
"Meanwhile," Simeone wrote, "several other people call the hospital, asking WHY WE ARE CALLING THEM INCESSANTLY?"
When Simeone called the hospital's phone company to get to the bottom of the phantom calls, a technician confirmed that "a bazillion calls" had indeed been dialed from one particular line in the hospital. Simeone hunted from room to room until she finally tracked the mystery dialer to the center's laboratory. There, she caught her perpetrator red-handed … or rather, green-footed.
"THERE IS A GECKO SITTING ON THE TOUCH SCREEN OF THE PHONE, MAKING CALLS WITH HIS TINY GECKO FEET!!!" Simeone tweeted.
"This gecko has called me 15 times and everyone in our recent call list."
Mystery solved. Simeone said she "immediately hired the gecko" and drafted an apology to everyone on staff who may have gotten a call from the tiny, green menace.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
If not British, then in what locale do you think it originates?
“We’ve traced the call. It’s coming from inside your hospital!”
—When a Gecko Calls
My dog called me at work, once.
When I heard the phone being eaten, on the other side, I new what was going on and told her to “Stop that!”
I drove home and got there before she got to the battery.
I guess it’s not as cute as that darned gecko, though.
Didn't know the late Charles Durning was in it. I was his doorman for almost 5 years back in the 90s.
LOL! Was she a puppy?
called Brazilian people>
People listen...
I had a flip phone a few years ago that I accidentally “butt dialed” in my sleep.
Since the ringer was off I didn’t hear my brother calling me back.
At three o’clock in the morning.
He was not as amused as I was....
When a gecko sits
On your phone’s touchpad
Who’s it gonna call?
Kei Kai Ola!
I like the way the title says the gecko “accidentally” made the call.
In before the Gei...who am I kidding?
“The more remarkable thing is that, the gecko figured out the password to unlock the phone for making the phone calls.”
Unlock codes are not necessary for butt-dialed calls. They only exist to frustrate people like me. :)
Seriously, I constantly misstype the unlock sequence and take 2-3 tries to unlock my phone, but stick the phone in my pocket and it seems to unlock automatically as well as finding menus I could not get back to with a manual.
I live in Florida and recently had a gecko crawl over our video doorbell and trigger the motion detector. When I looked at the video alert it looked like a gigantic monster was attacking our house. The little guy was right over the camera lens and looking into it. It was weird.
Unfortunately, the Gecko is on the Do Not Cull list.
Sounds like something the menehune would do in the hotel where I worked on Maui. Every weird thing that happened was blamed on menehune.
"You bred Tucson Banded gexes?"
"You bred Tucson Banded Geckos?"
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