>BSimon1234 wrote: >> >> Twice now, from different people, I got a call to come out IMMEDIATELY >>and get >> a snarling dog out of a grand piano... >> >> ...Anyone else ever get a call like this? >> >> Bill Simon >> Phoenix > >I used ot get 3 or 4 calls a year like this..same story, I assumed it >was just kids trying to pull a telphone prank. > >-- >C. Mike Swendsen R.P.T. >Calgary, Alberta, Canada ><mailto:swendsec@cadvision.com> ><http://www.cadvision.com/swendsec/spiano.html> This was explained in a post Sat, 23 Sep 1995 by Scott Hunter from Houston, Texas. Here is part of that post from the archives: ==================================================== These calls are an imitation of "The Jerky Boys." "The Jerky Boys" are a couple of guys from New York that do prank calls and release them on CD. They have two albums and even did a movie earlier this year. On their first CD they called a piano tuner and wanted him to come out to get the caller's rotwieller out of his piano... ==================================================== Keith A. McGavern kam544@ionet.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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