I’m Not In Jail In Canada
Today I got a text message from my sister. ”Are You In Jail?”, it said. ”Not today”, I sent back.
Minutes later she called me saying that my grandpa, who I’ve seen once in over fifteen years got a call from a guy claiming to be me. So this fellah, claiming to be me tells my grandpa who I’ve seen once in over fifteen years that he (I) was on the road with a band and did a show in Vancouver, Canada. Well you know the crazy life of traveling with bands like MercyMe and David Crowder can be, so this guy tells my grandpa that after the show we (the band and I) went out and had a few too many drinks. Now, this guy doesn’t mention the name of the band he (I) am out with, because well… that would be just too hard to come up with, but never the less, I am out drinking with this unnamed band and got so drunk that I (or someone else) wrecked some sort of motor vehicle. I assume it’s not a tour bus, but something much more manageable by intoxicated band members and myself. So anyway. According to the caller, he (I) is now in a Canadian jail and needs five thousand dollars, from this grandpa I have seen once in fifteen years, to get out. Huh.
Naturally my grandpa questions the caller a little more, but to no avail, as said grandpa is the only person on the planet that he (I) felt comfortable calling. Make sense right? Thirty year old man, drunk in Canada with a Christian band calls grandpa he’s only seen once in fifteen years, because there’s no one else in his life that he trusts to loan him five grand?
But seriously. For anyone wondering, I’m not in jail in Canada, but if you want to send me five thousand dollars I’ll take it.
You should be ashamed of yourself!
Yep, son…Jail, Canada, grandpa John and you..
None of that fit, but for a few seconds there we had a lot of questions…..
Love you, Mom
Holy Crap.. Talk about random. I mean who would have ever thought about doing that is just a tad crazy.
Wow. That is really comical. My question is, how did the dude know who your grandpa was and get that number? Sounds kinda like a prank, but since you haven’t really seen your grandpa but once in 15 yrs…yep. Someone musta really been needing 5000 bucks. Hmm.
You crazy Christian rock-and-roller you! Hitting the bottle up in Canada and wrecking cars. One of these days the Lord is going to get a hold of you.
Yeah, I was wondering too how the guy got your grandpa’s number. Maybe it’s some guy on your blogroll? ha ha Creepy!
You’re good at telling these ridiculous stories of all the random things that happen to you!
On one hand, that’s just too funny—laugh out loud, slap your knee, one for the books kinda funny. On the other hand, that’s pretty scary to think a total stranger got hold of important info—and probably worried your mom and family half to death with his wild tale— and then tried to scam money out of the deal.
WEIRD!
This means you are BIG TIME!
Unfortunately, this has happened numerous times to people here in ND recently. It is a scam designed to get people to wire money across the border where it’s very hard to trace, and almost impossible to recover. Thankfully, you or your family didn’t fall for this scam. Others have though and it’s cost them a lot of money.
Beth
Faux Brody has some giant cajones to try to pull that and some serious chutzpah.
I know people can be/are evil and manipulative and do all kinds of wrong to others, but it still blows me away when I hear stuff like this. Maybe I’m naive, but I just can’t understand trying to hurt Grandpa John like that for a few (thousand) bucks. I don’t get it.