Here is a little story about what happened to my wife friday night.
So as some of you may know, my wife is Japanese and not fluent in English. She's been going to an ESL school for the past 10 months. Friday a bunch of the people from her classes had a little get-together. On her way back home on the train, she starts getting phone calls from a blocked number, non-stop. She asks her classmates, a Thai girl, about it, and one of her friends takes the phone and tries to ask who's there. No answer. After I pick her up, she tells me what happened, and her phone starts ringing again non-stop like before. Only this time it's from a listed number. I check her call log, and there's around 30 FUCKING PHONE CALLS made to her phone, every few minutes, in the last hour or so. There's also some text messages, that read:
"F U I FUCK U" and "I KNOW U AND [Thai Girl's name] ARE FUCK I FUCK U" and finally "I GO T UR SCHOOL MONDAY I FUCK U"
On the next call, I answer the phone and some pissed-off sounding Asian guy with a heavy accent starts yammering. It went like this:
Me: "Hello. Who are you, and why do you keep calling this phone?
Asian guy: "Fuck you!"
Me: "What is it that you want? Tell me or quit calling this number."
Asian guy: "YOU FUCKER! I FUCKING KILL YOU!!!"
Me: "Look, you call this phone again, I get your number traced and call the cops. Fuck off."
Asian Guy: "YOU FU--" *I hang up*
After this, we stopped off to get some food. We left my wife's phone in the car. When we get back, there's 10 more calls. We get to my parents' house and I ask my father if he happens to know if the iPhone can block calls. It can't unless you pay a fee, apparently. I go and look up the guy's number on google, and get a few sites that can give me his details for a couple of bucks. I know he lives in the area. The phone keeps on ringing. This time my father picks up the phone, and he's not as calm as I am, starting off with "Why do you keep calling [Mrs. Edge™]'s phone?" The guy starts rambling about a girlfriend, then my father starts screaming in the loudest voice I have ever heard, "YOU CALL THIS PHONE AGAIN AND I AM GOING TO FUCK YOU UP. NO, YOU HEAR ME?! DON'T CALL AGAIN. WE GOT YOUR NUMBER-- KEEP AT IT AND I WILL FUCK YOU UP, ASSHOLE!!"
The guy doesn't call back after this.
20 minutes later, the phone rings again, I pick up and it's the Thai girl from earlier. She wants to tell my wife that she got home safely (they were drinking earlier and this girl decided to drive home plastered. Brilliant move.). I ask her if she has a boyfriend and tell her what's been going on. She gives me her boyfriend's number and it's different. I still think there's an obvious connection, since one of the text messages mentioned her name. Nothing happens for a while, then another text message comes from the guy, saying "SO SORRY." Followed by "I am bad man. I think you woman was man. So sorry I am horrible."
Then he calls back, apologizing profusely, calling me "sir," being very polite, etc. etc. I tell him what he did was harassment and it was against the law. He says he was angry because he kept trying to call his girlfriend, Thai girl, and she wasn't answering her phone, then apologizes a bunch more before hanging up. It's obvious that this guy is the EXTREMELY jealous type. And since he had my wife's number, it means he checks his girlfriend's call log all the time. I tell my wife about this, and she confirms from previous conversations with Thai girl that yes, the guy's crazy-jealous. I'm not sure how the hell he thought my wife's feminine-sounding name was a guy, or that he wouldn't have gotten a clue when my wife kept answering the phone on the train when this all started, but whatever. He also went crazy over a male classmate sending Thai girl an e-mail inviting her to the party they went to earlier.
All the nonsense is over, or so I thought. Yesterday morning, I wake up to my wife sobbing with the phone in her hand. Apparently the guy went to his girlfriend's place, beat her up, and stole her car. Instead of calling the cops, she called my wife and told her what happened, that she can't get her car because it was bought under the guy's name, and that she's only here because of him in the first place, and is going back to Thailand. My wife keeps wanting to meet her, but the girl doesn't want to see anybody.
And that's all that's happened so far. This guy is clearly nuts; that girl needs to call the cops. My wife thinks the guy must have punched his girlfriend in the face, and that's why she doesn't want to see anybody.
