Tiny Hawaiian Gecko Accidentally Calls 'a Bazillion' People from Hospital Phone...

LiveScience.com ^ | October 5, 2018 | Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer

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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.

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[adorno]

The more remarkable thing is that, the gecko figured out the password to unlock the phone for making the phone calls.

Smarter than the average liberal.

[Moonman62]

A variation of the butt call.

[Olog-hai]

The first Geico gecko commercial had the public-school-accented reptile demanding people stop calling him.

[Rusty0604]

LOL

[ConservaTeen]

Darn it..I was thinking of GEICO...He was helping, the GEICO gekko is on vacation fishing....

[SES1066]

The first Geico gecko commercial had the public-school-accented reptile demanding people stop calling him.

You are assuming facts, 'him', not in evidence. How do we know that female reptiles don't have deep voices? FYI: It is long past time to 'deep 6' this reptile, bring back the cavemen!

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The first Geico gecko commercial had the public-school-accented reptile demanding people stop calling him.

"Public school" how?

It was Kelsey Grammer.

[Olog-hai]

I assert my white male privilege in this case.

As for the cavemen, perhaps the Government Employees Insurance Company has burned their bridges?

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[Yaelle]

Kelsey Grammer is the British gecko??

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[Olog-hai]

You know Hollywood and their accent coaches. Besides, Allen K. Grammer was born in the USVI.

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No. He was the first Geico Gecko.

You could say he spoke with a "posh" accent, but not British.

The cockney gekko is another actor.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s mean. I hope the little froggie got some real num-nums.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]