<p>If you lived in WA, not only would you get the robo calls, but you’d also be stuck with the on and on and on TV and radio commercials. We have taken to DVR-ing everything & I stick to NPR. </p>
<p>My '13 grad daughter has taken to answering the phone and yelling at the callers. It is a good way for her to work out her aggression 
Since they are political, they can’t be stopped. :(</p>
<p>I did finally get the March of Dimes to stop calling when I told them if they dared call again I would never give them another penny.</p>
<p>I answered one as my husband. The caller became confused and told me he did not believe I was a man. The audacity! to tell me my own sex (LOL). Had fun and he never called again.</p>
<p>My wife is a (real person) telemarketer’s worst nightmare… She listens to their spiel for 2minutes, THEN politely tells them she is not interested and to put us on the “do not call” list. Excessive time is money (lost)!</p>
<p>I HATE robocalls. Well, I hate telemarketing calls in general. I wish the Do Not Call list had some teeth.</p>
<p>The absolute worse was when some moron completed an application for Easy Credit/Payday loan and was too stupid to list his cell number correctly. I received hundreds of calls on my cell for the next 2-3 months. Lots of texts too. Most from NY, FL, WA and out of country. Very frustrating experience. No way to block since they are from different (and fake) numbers. Some of them from repeat obnoxious callers. Grrr.</p>
<p>* We also shriek, make animal noises, tell them they’ve called a murder scene and ask them if they would mind answering a few questions about the victim, or pretend to be recruiting for a cult and thank them for calling.*</p>
<p>Please come to my next dinner party.
;)</p>
<p>Massmom!
My DH thinks I am the only one who does this. He just hangs up a few seconds after they call. That’s because he’s not the one answering 99% of the calls. I have several approaches; I do a great imitation of an ambulance siren, I have answered “911 what’s your emergency,” which really freaked one of these people out, and sometimes I just scream at the top of my lungs. I have pleaded with people to put me on their DNC list and it never works, so now I have my fun. My next investment will be an air horn. I know these people are trying to make a living, but they are (universally) nasty and rude when I try to speak rationally with them, so the air horn is next.</p>
<p>I do have a landline and though we’ve been on the Do Not Call list for years, occasionally robocalls do come through, notably from home security companies and something about credit cards. </p>
<p>It was recently brought to my attention that my provider - Windstream - has a way to block numbers. It’s easy -dial #00 or whatever and a code to block the last call. I’ve done that 4 times now and haven’t gotten one since. I imagine at some point they’ll call from another n umber and I’ll do the code again, but this has already made a huge difference.</p>
<p>Most phone companies should have something similar.</p>
<p>I now have a new source of potential entertainment that I didn’t fully realize…I will answer these calls and have fun. I may back off 911 emergency scenarios–you never know when a true good-hearted person is on the other end of the line and sends the police to your door just in case.
But BEING the 911 entity is a fun twist…</p>
<p>We were on the DNC list as well, but things get through. We’d answer as (DH’s name) Home for Runaway Girls, BlueIguana’s Mortuary, and the one DH really didn’t like, but I’d tell people over and over "I’m sorry Mr BlueIguana is deceased…long pause… 
He decided I said it way too frequently, and way too easily. It was just so stinking effective. My MIL has an air horn that she blows into the phone. We all have to cover our ears. It’s hysterical only because she enjoys it so much.</p>
<p>My mother use to answer the phone saying “County Morgue”. That use to shock people. </p>
<p>Now if I could stop the political e-mails from Ohio! I live in Michigan.</p>
<p>In the old days when I was a child, if someone called us at dinnertime, my father would answer the phone and say, “Our Town Police Department, Chief Campbell speaking.” There would be a long pause and then the caller would hang up.</p>
<p>I received three robo calls today for the same candidate for mayor in our town. I plan on voting for him, but I’m really annoyed.</p>
<p>VH,
I live in NY and in the past 24 hours I have received robocalls from Bill Clinton, Senator Chuck Schumer, Governor Andrew Cuomo, former Governor George Pataki and our current Congresswoman :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Can’t wait till election season (aka silly season) is over.</p>
<p>momof3sons: Who are they all promoting? DiBlasio?</p>
<p>That nomorobo site didn’t accept my email. Gee, oh well. If I answer a call from an unidentified number or 800 number, I either answer with “yes?” which either fails to trigger the robocall (not always but often) or, if a real person is there, they say “hello??” I then say “is this marketing call?” I respect the honest ones who say yes. Some admit they are surveys (no time for most of those) and some just launch into their pitch. I usually ask them to take me off their list.</p>
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<p>No such thing any more. </p>
<p>I rarely get robocalls but my fiance gets them all the time from the party he’s registered with despite the fact that he hasn’t lived in the district they’re calling about for years and years. </p>
<p>We don’t have a landline and I never answer a call unless I know the number. If it’s important, they’ll leave a message.</p>
<p>Jshain,</p>
<p>I read your post #24 as “my wife is a real person”. LOL, I had visions of “Lars and the Real Girl”. (great flick).</p>
<p>I like the telemarketers who ask for a specific person. I tell them the person is dead.</p>
<p>VH, I don’t know who they were promoting. I don’t listen past the “Hi, this is Bill Clinton…” When I tell DH that Bill Clinton called, he gets upset and says, “I told you I wanted to speak to him!” :D</p>
<p>There are nine people running for two seats on our city council. I had narrowed it down to three people I would vote for. One of them had a robocall to my house yesterday. That one is now crossed off the list.</p>
<p>Seriously…who thinks a robocall would get anybody to vote for you or hire you?</p>