Pranksters
Back in March I was in California for a Panel Meeting; I got into the hotel pretty late at night, but still had time to grab dinner before the hotel restaurant closed (thank goodness – I was *starving*).
Being the raving mad Social Media nut I am, I immediately flipped open my iPhone and “checked in” *at* the hotel – before I even actually checked in *with* the hotel (yes, lame… I know).
After dinner, I returned to my room and turned on the TV. I began ironing my clothes for the first day of the meeting the next morning, when suddenly my room phone began to ring – it was a crank call, from someone pretending to be from the front desk of the hotel, reporting that there were complaints of prostitution activity in my room.
Just this week (three months later), I was testing out Spezify (a visual meta-search/information extraction engine) … naturally, I put in my name – first name only, though. One of the results immediately caught my eye: an entry for “keaven.wav” … “what the…?” I thought to myself.
It turns out, the guy who crank called me had been recording the conversation. Once the conversation was over, he uploaded the recording to the interwebz. How awesome is that?!
That being said, I snagged a copy of the recording, and am putting it here for you guys to listen to. I figure, since it’s out there now, it’s always going to be out there… somewhere… so I might as well at least embrace the embarrassment 
Best I can figure, the person who called me saw my twitter/foursquare update, and decided to have a little fun at my expense. I did a search for the guy’s username on the site where I found this recording, and he has a few more of the same thing – calling people in hotel rooms pretending to be from the front desk. Meh.. whatever.
Without further adieu, here is the recording of the crank call I received in March. Enjoy:
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