Billie Joe getting prank called

[Farah]

omg i so want to listen to that but i can't turn up the volume right now. ugh.

Edit: ok i listened to it.

Hahaha i loved it (kinda) xD at the begining it sounded like a friend of mine talking xD

[Deathwish.]

this was a great way to start the morning. thank you, but then again I kind of feel bad for Billie.

This.

[ReturnTo86]

i downloaded this a few years ago.

i dont find it funny in the slightest to be honest.

of course it isnt billie, how in earth would they get his home number?

[Nikki_Nimrod]

ohh, I remember this!

I still can't decide whether i think it's really him or not

On one hand, it does sound similar....and i bet he probably sounds different when woken up in the middle of the night.

But it's still pretty different :/

ah well, the world may never know. Either way, it's certainly interesting.

[Luci_Minority]

I don't know if is really him but is nice poor Billie

[AnnA™]

I don't find it funny either. Whether it's for real or not, I just think it's lame.

[darenmay]

it doesn;t sound like billie but it's really funny.

[Guest]

I remember this on 96.7, Kev C lol

[Li Sa]

I don't find it funny and don't think it's Billie

[Agija]

Real or fake, it's pretty hilarious, anyway.

[sharika]

thats hilarious! i love it even if it's fake..though it's quite realistic! that's soo clever WAKE UP septemeber's over!

[Sarahnade.]

Well an easy way to tell where this call was going would be to listen to the touch tones and see what numbers those tones correspond with, reconstructing the phone number.

How to do that? You could either do it by ear, if you trust your sense of hearing, or you can analyze the frequency spectrum of the tones and see which numbers they correspond to.

Touch tones are composed of two overlapping frequencies. The frequencies that correspond to the number can be found by looking at the bottom row and far right column and matching them up with the number or * or #. (A,B,C,D are for military use only)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9975/tones.jpg

So I ripped the audio, popped it into my audio program, selected the portion of the audio that plays a tone.

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8353/portion.jpg

Then ran a frequency spectrum analysys. What I was looking for were two narrow peaks which would correspond to the tone. For the first number, this is what I got:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8589/peaks.jpg

These were at 947Hz and 1330Hz which are close to the values of 941Hz and 1336Hz on the table and correspond to a 0

The rest of the numbers turned out as follows:

another 0, 1, 5, 0, 8, 4, 9, 6, 6, 0, 9, 6,

so the number is:

001-508-496-6096 (I double checked)

001 is the calling code from the UK to the US so that checks out, but 508 is an area code in Massachusetts. Further, the whole number, 508-496-6096 when googled leads to a number of results for someone named 'Hal Rood'. Now if you do a google of 'Hal Rood' you get this page: http://www.strategicradiosolutions.com/hr.html

And what does it say on his bio?

"Over the past 14 years, Hal has worked with some of the world’s most successful radio brands, including 104.6 RTL/Berlin, DC-101/Washington, Europa Plus and Retro FM/Russia, Virgin Radio and RFM/France, Sky Radio / Holland, Key 103/Manchester, 98FM/Dublin, Globo Radio / Brasil, and Europa FM and Radio 21/Romania."

Bingo, someone in radio. Now unless Hal acquired Billie Joe's cellphone number sometime after 2005, or if Billie Joe happened to be using Hal's cell phone that night, then I think it's safe to say that this is fake.

There is one other possibility though, which might be a bit of a stretch--- The DJs may have been working with Hal and Hal had his cell phone calls automatically forward to Billie Joe's... but that seems way too convoluted.

So there you go. Fake.

Wow. Kudos to you for doing all of that! I think it's safe to call it fake now.

[ANJI]

This cracked me up haha...even thought its fake

[karma1215]

That's the funniest stuff ever. Thanks for sharing. I am putting this on my Ipod.

[Maddy.]

Check has them skills, yo. That was really clever.

[Penguin Puffball]

That's like amusing but mean at the same time.

[Holly]

Awhhhhh! Haha this is really funny, bless him. I'm so slow, I didn't realise why it had to be a certain time until he said it. Poor Billie, let him sleep.

I hope it is fake

[Jaymee!!]

I heard this yonks ago, and just as I did then I still think it's fake.

[newsflash777]

Fake. We know Billie's voice.

[pols4tre]

Oh GOD. I cringed listening to that. I don't think it's even real! XD

[davegrohllover]

Hmm i duno if this is real...

[Robin105]

What also makes me think this is fake, This is from a radio station in Liverpool England. How would they get Billie's home phone number?

[MascaraTears]

@check, wow good detective work! I have to admit I did laugh though... if you just picture it's actually Billie, yeah I would feel a little bad for him but it's still funny.

[The Muffin]

I think it's fake but still funny.

[BadgerLALA]

hahahah it made me laugh. But I still don't think it's Billie