
Quoting
gardening123
Hmmm. If someone carelessly drove their car through my fence, would I be using the cops to "harass" the driver who damaged my property?
I hear where you all are coming from, but 87 phone calls in a 6-7 hour time frame seems egregious. So if I had called the police after the 30th call, and the phone was actually still ringing as I made a formal police report, and continued after I filed such a report, then I'd get some assistance. Ok, seems odd but OK.
If it's some teenagers, then yes, I think a visit from a police officer to announce that 87 calls came from this number and it needs to stop would have a great effect.
In the spirit of full disclosure, when I was a teenager I made some random prank calls to a neighbor over a period of a few months. I never said anything threatening, but I said odd, incongruous things. One night a police officer called my house and said that these people were going to press charges against me. My mom had to take me to the police station and the cops read me my rights. They then wanted me to write a letter apologizing to the neighbor, which I did. This was probably in 1993. They said making repeated calls to anyone was against the law, even if you weren't cursing, swearing or threatening. Maybe the whole thing was a scam to scare me, well it worked. I certainly didn't do that sort of thing anymore.
Here we are 25+ years later and I get 87 calls in a night and everyone is telling me the police won't waste their time with this. The police sure were happy to "waste" their time with me in the 90's, but it had a good effect. I'm just thinking that if police got involved in this the same effect might be achieved.