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To wonder how many car accidents I have been in that I don't know about?

64 replies

PatoPotato · 12/06/2019 11:20

I have just received a call that I have been in a car accident.

This seems to happen every other week. I'm not sure if I have temporary amnesia, but if this is true then I don't know how our family car comes out unscathed? These are genuinely concerned individuals on the phone obviously, so they would not lie to me.

Has this happened to you? Have you been in a car accident that you don't know about?

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ChesterDrawsDoesntExist · 12/06/2019 13:27

I kept one going for absolutely AGES!

She wasn't impressed when she eventually got the details of the accident out of me. I had stubbed my poor pinky toe getting into the car with sandals on. Ouchie.

Laffinalltheway · 12/06/2019 13:33

Get them constantly.
I ask if their name is JohnnyNoStars, and was that why they got sacked from MacDonalds and had to get such a shit job as the one they have now...

TheSecondMrsAshwell · 12/06/2019 13:37

Would you believe I've just had one while reading this thread? I laughed so hard they hung up.

madderthenaboxofffrogs · 12/06/2019 13:37

Lol love reading people's responses to these calls, I hate talking on the phone so just slam the phone down but maybe I should be braver and annoy them.

I was at a bus stop once and the women was really putting it on and said she was decapitated made me laugh.

Not had one for ages but now keep getting one telling me they gonna cut my internet off, so annoying

Isatis · 12/06/2019 14:00

I tell them the accident gave me rigor mortis. Sadly it takes them an awfully long time to catch on.

Idontwanttotalk · 12/06/2019 14:01

I get them all the time.

Caller: I have it down that you were involved in an accident that wasn't your fault. Is that right?
Me: No.
Caller: Asks same again but slightly different wording.
Me: No.

Caller hangs up. (Result!).

OR
Caller: I have it down that you were involved in an accident that wasn't your fault. Is that right?
Me: Which one was that? I've had loads and none are ever my fault. Which one would you like me to tell you about first?

Caller hangs up. (Result!).

OR
Caller: I have it down that you were involved in an accident that wasn't your fault. Is that right?
Me: Do you have the right person? Who is it that you think you are talking to? What do you have as my name? (knowing they have no idea what my name is).

Very occasionally,
Me: Oh, f**k off!

frankie001 · 12/06/2019 14:03

I tell them yes I had an accident. Couldn’t find a loo so poo everywhere!

Idontwanttotalk · 12/06/2019 14:15

Brilliant frankie001. I'll remember that for next time. Grin

Alliolly · 12/06/2019 14:15

I usually just keep asking them where did you get my number from and who told you about the accident... they hang up on me in less than a minute :(
But what is it with these calls? I never understood what are they after, I just assumed it’s some kind of scam

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 12/06/2019 14:23

I got called a fucking bitch by one when I asked if I could get compensation for injured eyelashes.

How is that sort of abuse going to help my recovery?!

TheSecondMrsAshwell · 12/06/2019 14:34

Oh I got a follow up call from a British company about all the money I lost on bad investments. I said I'd never never invested a penny. The guy said "but you answered that you had on one of the cold calls" and I said I hadn't (I lie and tell them all sorts of things that aren't true but the investment thing I always say no to). Then I asked him why on earth they paid the slightest bit of attention to the results of the cold calls cos everyone bullshits. He had to agree and laugh.

I don't know why they even bother ringing people, they never fill out the right answers. Between the bullshit and lack of comprehension at the other end, they might as well make it ALL up.

HereForAdvice2019 · 12/06/2019 14:34

The ones I get are.. We hear you're wanting to sell your business.
I said yes but it's very small and hasn't been too successful to date
Them.. Thats no problem we're looking at any business in your area, may I ask what the business is?
Me. Yep I'm a prostitute but I'm crap at it hence not successful.
Them hang up

newmomof1 · 12/06/2019 14:46

@Xiaoxiong my friend did the leg amputation one too. they hung up when she told them her dog had also sadly died in the accident. Insensitive of them really! Grin

FadedRed · 12/06/2019 14:46

Omzlas GrinGrin “ The body’s getting a bit smelly.. “
I’d borrow that for the next cold call, but I don’t think i’d be able to say it without laughing out loud.

SlothMama · 12/06/2019 14:48

I just get those annoying automated ones these days, it was horrendous after I actually had an accident I was hounded by the bloody calls.

bigsista00 · 12/06/2019 14:52

In the local shopping centre -

Man - have you had an accident in the last 5 years? you could claim if so?
Me - Does this one count? (points to DS)

He looked so confused and stuttered something about 'err not really' as I walked past Grin

TheBrockmans · 12/06/2019 15:26

I had some after an actual accident which they seemed to have the details of. They were very persistent that someone in the car could have been injured and just not know about it yet. I was absolutely certain that wasn't the case as we were asleep thousands of miles away when our car parked at home was hit. They were still trying to persuade me that I could be mistaken!

FudgeBrownie2019 · 12/06/2019 15:36

I skidded on ice with DS2 in the car years ago and wrote off my car. Nobody else involved, fortunately no injuries other than a little shock and bruising.

For at least 3 years afterwards I got a call every so often asking if I'd like to make a claim. I'd go through the extensive list of damage done to the car, the giant bruise on my neck that looked exactly like a love bite done by a hippo, the fact that DS2 had to be cut out of his car seat. And then they'd gleefully announce they absolutely think I can make a claim. Against who? I always asked. Because either I can put in a claim against myself, for hitting the black ice, or I can put in a claim against God on High for putting the weather system in place that put the ice on the road. That's it. Me or God. And either way, I doubt I'm getting much of a payout because the only thing of any value in the house are the shoes I hide from DH, and God has no shoes, only sandals, and I'm not a sandals kind of woman.

They tended to hang up at that point.

mabelsgarden · 12/06/2019 15:50

I never get these now.

Not since all the privacy laws kicked in (in May 2018...)

These people are breaking the law if they cold-call now..........

Tell them that they are being recorded and the FBI are on their way to them right now!

Some very funny posts on here though. Grin

WeirdAndPissedOff · 13/06/2019 14:10

I love hearing the responses to these, I'm never brave enough to try it myself!
I had one a few years ago following an actual accident (my fault, I scraped a parked vehicle at about 5 mph). Due to a combination of guilt, nerves and this call sounding slightly more genuine than the rest, for some reason I believed it was a follow-up call and started to answer the questions genuinely. About half way through the conversation it became obvious that they were after a compensation claim, so I set them straight and told them it was a minor accident which was my fault. They asked if I had a passenger at the time, and I said I did (my Dsis), so they asked if she was interested in making a claim instead! Hmm

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 13/06/2019 14:53

Have you had the ones where it's a real person who has had their voice recorded, but with appropriate gaps for you to respond?

It is very odd when she (always a she!) suddenly starts talking over you while you are explaining your hideous tobogganing accident of 1973 and is that claimable?

TBH its taken the fun out of it....

CreakingKnees · 13/06/2019 15:13

My son and his wife both got a call on their mobile phones at the same time from two different companies regarding a none existent accident.
They put the calls on loudspeaker and placed the phones beside each other while my son recorded it on his work mobile.
We fell about laughing at the two confused callers each telling one and other about the accident they had, with one trying to convince the other that it actually happened.
I still view that clip when i want a good giggle.

Saavhi · 13/06/2019 15:20

I spent 2 minutes discussing my fatal injuries last month. Tbf my internet wasn't working and I was bored!

Sweetpotatoaddict · 13/06/2019 15:27

They phoned the other week asking me if I was my dead relative 😡 she’s been dead 15 years. So I asked if he could tell me if she’d been injured in heaven and if she was okay. It took a bit before he realised what I was meaning. It’s so frustrating these companies clearly work with such out of databases ( no one of that name in the house for over 7 years now).
It must be so upsetting for someone who has lost a loved one in an rtc.

AngelaJ18 · 13/06/2019 15:49

Jack I know someone who’s beaten your dad’s record. DH’s uncle once kept a cold caller on the line for over an hour trying to “fix” a virus on his computer before finally saying to him “You mean I have to buy a computer?”

The man got quite irate then hung up once he realised the person he’d called genuinely doesn’t own a computer!