So yesterday, just minutes before my boss was to give a presentation, my boss gets a page from his wife. When he returns the call his wife tells him that she got a call from an unknown caller stating that their teenage daughter was involved in a car accident. The caller stated that there were no injuries, and that their daughter was ok, but that they needed to get to the scene of the accident right away.

When my boss’s wife tried to reach their daughter on her cell phone to check in with her, there was no answer. To further muddle the situation, their daughter should have been in class when the call came in about the accident.

So my boss goes tearing out of the office headed for the scene of the accident to check on his daughter. When he gets there he discovers… nothing. No accident, no emergency vehicles, no sign that anything had occured. A few minutes later my boss manages to get through to his daughter who informs him that the reason why she didn’t answer her phone is becuase she was in class and had it turned off…

It appears that the call was a hoax. But why would anybody do such a thing? Not that I condone making hoax calls to 911, but at least when you do something like that you see police cars and fire trucks, but in this instance to me it seems that for the caller the result would be a bit anti-climatic…