To think this is a drug dealer messaging me?

[ObiJuanKenobi]

For the last 6 months every now and then I get random texts like the ones attached, I messaged back saying please stop messaging me you have the wrong number, and it stopped. All of a sudden I'm getting them again, almost daily!

What should I do? Report to police, witty reply or just ignore?
I think I can block the number somehow (anyone know how?)

Or is it something innocent and not drugs

It's obviously the local 24 hour painter and decorator.

Apple White? About all night!

@BetterEatCheese I wouldn't know what any of that meant! It was the nose candy comments that gave the game away for me with mine, the old ones that used to message me used to call them cans of coke

I can't give you their number, i would hate to be responsible for getting you all hooked on the nose candy power bang bang

Haha, it is a drug dealer, and not a very smart one unfortunate past experience.
If it's a new phone, then the most likely explanation is that either someone has put down a false number, put down an accidentally wrong number, or the dealer himself has recorded the number wrong (ie. by one number).
Sorry, it's probably not very funny for you OP, but gave me a chuckle!

Oh, and I agree with don't wind them up/weird them out. Jesus. Not these guys. I'd just block and ignore.

Drug dealers appear to be the only people still working in imperial measurements. If I ask for a quarter pound of bacon these days I get a completely bewildered look. Even more so if I ask for half an ounce of Golden Virginia at tobacco kiosk.

Dont the phpne companies recycle numbers?

I used get calls on my home phone for an actress with a well known habit, she shared our surname. Sure it was her dealers , they sounded menacing.

they use both now @apaca. you can buy 3.5 grams or 1/4 of an ounce in one of the texts above 😂

That has to be the stupidest drug dealer ever to own a phone, don’t they usually try to be at least a bit more subtle?

Doesn't help much sorry but who is "titslewis"?

@Ummmmgogo thanks! It was definitely easier to ask for an eighth rather than 3.5 grammes in the back garden of Dodgy Student Pub, about a million years ago.

I know a few small time "little boy" type dealers who do this. I know a lot of people who deal/take drugs to be honest and as such the term "being about" alone gives it away. I quite often get friends texting me at ridiculous hours "know anyone who's about?" And in turn will text dealers with "are you about?" And that's simply what it means in my eyes

@ObiJuanKenobi I have no idea either! When I first got them they just said 'Peng Bud and Power Shine.' Worked out 'bud' must have been weed. Stupid dealer. So bloody obvious aren't they!?

Oh my gosh; they're worse than Hungry House!

' Last week at this time, you ordered a curry. Aren't you hungry?'

'Come on, order a curry again!'

'Are you hungry? We have food, you know.'

What gets me is they come through at random times of the day as well as evenings and weekends, who on earth sits in their office and gets a text like that and thinks fuck it, is nose candy o'clock!

@tempuser it's an old nickname from an ex boyfriend

the dealer will send the texts when he has restocked his supply as well as when he thinks it's drugs o'clock that's why.

DD3 got a reconditioned phone and number that was new to her when she was about 12. She immediately started getting calls from collection agencies, all looking for one certain individual. I ended up having to call the numbers they left because they called during school hours and DD's phone would ring while she was in class if she forgot to turn it to silent, and it would be confiscated, and then I would have to go to the school at 3 o'clock to sign for it, per school policy. It was a huge pita. There were about ten agencies over the years.

I kept reading only to find out about tits lewis 😂😂

I'll have a quarter of a sniffle and the quacks beak please dawg brudder

Does he have any clarkie cat?

When I started a new job a few years back I got recycled an ex colleagues number. It was “interesting”. Within a few month I was get overdrawn texts. These were followed by shouty call from Barclays coll drinks team who wouldn’t believe I didn’t know him. I tried to have my number removed from records but only he could do it. Final straw was when his kids school called (some 2 years or more after I’d had phone I was in a meeting so they left a message saying the kids hadn’t been picked up and they were shutting school and would call police if couldn’t reach either parent. I called the school back to say wrong number, and went to HR. Who eventually wrote to him and told him to sort it out! They couldn’t call him as still had his number down as mine....!?

They've started again from a different bloody number is the only way to stop this to keep blocking each one or get a new number?

It’s a dealer and if he has any sense he will have a PAYG non-smart phone so it’s probably not worth wasting the police’s time.

Honestly, I literally swear if MN didn’t exist the police budget could be slashed in half.

My friends local dealer says things like “need any vegetables my gardens about to be harvested”

How long have you had this phone number? Not phone, the actual number?

A few years back I went on a date with a guy, nice chap but no romantic spark. I didnt delete his phone number from my phone.

Fast forward a few months and I was seeing (just v.v. casually) this guy Id known for years- we werent texting or calling, just using FB messenger.

I started to get calls from Mr A and didnt answer. It was beginning to creep me out until one night Mr B popped over and said 'why havent you answered my calls?' I said I hadnt had a call from him and he rang my phone right then and there... Mr A's phone number popped up.

We ended up howling laughing about it, as hed only got a new SIM card a couple of weeks back.

The odds of being assigned that number? I have no idea!!! But it can obviously happen!