Death Calls

Don’t answer your mobile phone. It might be a death call. Up north, mobile phone numbers are getting posted in shops, restaurants, bars and other places. People are seeing those numbers and taking note. If one of them shows up on your caller-ID, don’t answer. Anyone answering calls from those numbers will die, or so it goes.

It started with only one number, which has since been disconnected. An elderly lady received a call from a stranger who informed her that her son had been killed in a road accident. Later that evening, her son came home and woke her up, giving her the shock of her life. The old lady had a heart attack and died.

The call turned out to be a prank. The son had not been in an accident and was actually working late, as usual. Intent on revenge, the son went through his mother’s mobile phone, found the unfamiliar number and warned everyone he knew that this number would bring death to anyone who answered it. News spread and the number got posted in various public places as a warning to everyone about the ‘death phone’.

But now, there seems to be more than one number getting posted. Does that mean there have been more deaths?

27/10/2010 - 06:24

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