Answer your phone and only learn secrecy and you might assume it is a sack call . No large softwood . But if that happens nine times in less than 15 second , you might get to panic . You may even start to remember it ’s some form ofhorror movie - like scenarioor ( perhaps less obviously ) a " Navy SEAL emergency " – as was the lawsuit for Dr Claire Simeone , infirmary director at Ke Kai Ola , a marine mammal center in Hawaii .
Fortunately , it was neither of those thing . The material perpetrator ? A put-on - calling gecko . Simeone described the unknown encounter ina Twitter thread .
It all began last Friday when Simeone was on her luncheon break . Her phone get going to ring so thinking it might be someone with a seal - related question , she picked up . She was meet with silence . The phone started to ring again . More quiet .
A quick sequence of calls survey but no one seemed to be on the other destruction . After the ninth call in 15 minutes , Simeone started to panic and labor back to the hospital . " seal off exigency ? I ’m on it , " shewrote . But when she got there , the infirmary was calm . No cachet emergency brake in sight .
Then , she gets another call . More secrecy . Now , she realizes it come from " INSIDE " the infirmary …
Meanwhile , citizenry are call the infirmary because they too are receiving some very strange calls and wanted to know " WHY [ the infirmary was ] CALLING THEM INCESSANTLY ? "
think there may be some technological glitch , Simeone called up the hospital ’s telephone provider . A technician on the other end confirm that " yes , a bazillion calls are come from one line " and asked her to bump out which telephone line of descent was causing the problem .
After train the agency , the fish kitchen , and the viewing room , she found the incorrect line – the cryptic calls were coming from the laboratory . But it was not because of some technological malfunction . Oh no . alternatively , the perpetrator was in reality a little reptilian prankster using his " TINY GECKO FEET " to cause all this mischievousness , presumably unwittingly .
After prognosticate the technician to explain the real source of the problem and get off a line to staff and volunteers who may have been unsuspecting victim of the prank phone call , Simeon said she " straight off lease gecko " . Though she has not yet specified what his new office will entail .
This is not the first gecko to be descry cause fuss in an unusual place . Last year , a adult male establish one hidingin his ear . Nope , we ’re not making that one up .
