Gecko Making Phone Calls (Seriously)
According to a report in USAToday, “Employees at the Ke Kai Ola Marine Mammal Center in Hawaii were receiving mysterious calls last week. Only it wasn’t a glitch with their phone system. It was caused by a gecko.” Claire Simeone, director of the Marine Mammal Center’s Ke Kai Ola Hawaiian Monk Seal Hospital in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, was just sitting down for lunch when a call came into her cell from the hospital, but there was only silence.
Over the next 15 minutes, Dr. Simeone received 9 calls from the hospital, each with no response or sound coming from the other end. Of course, she began to panic and took off to see if there was sort of emergency at the facility, only to find that other employees had also been receiving the strange calls.
It wasn’t a bad phone, and it wasn’t a software glitch, it was a gecko. Dr. Simeone posted on Twitter:
THERE IS A GECKO SITTING ON THE TOUCHSCREEN OF THE PHONE, MAKING CALLS WITH HIS TINY GECKO FEET!!! This gecko has called me 15 times, and everyone in our recent call list. *Actual photo of telemarketer* @TMMC @GEICO @HawaiianTel pic.twitter.com/USyKeOiDbE
— Dr. Claire Simeone (@Claire_Simeone) October 5, 2018
Apparently, he was “touching” everyone on the “recently called” list on the touch screen of the phone. I’d just remind everyone, it is doubtful the little green guy, probably trying to sell car insurance, could have made those calls with an old style rotary phone. Sometimes our technology conspires against us.
