The week of Christmas always seems to bring out the random, weird and/or crazy callers in droves. This year was no exception. I'm going to share with you three weird phone calls I was part of last week.

Call #1

Caller: Do you still have the Ellen cardboard?
Me: I'm sorry, what?
Caller: You know, the cardboard of Ellen from t.v. I took a picture with it in your lobby once.
Me: Oh... Well, now that you mention it, I haven't seen it in awhile so I'm not sure.
Caller: I want to borrow it.
Me: For what?
Caller: To play a prank on my son.
Me: I'm not sure if we loan those types of things out, and I'm not who would be able to give you permission.
Caller: Your receptionist said I could.
Me: She doesn't have that authority. The person you need to speak with is out today. You can call back tomorrow.

He did call back the next day ... three times. We told him no.

Call #2
Caller: Is Nick Saban leaving Alabama?
Me: Not that I know of.
Caller: Well, my coworker saw a post on Facebook that said he was.
Me: Can you tell me more about the post? Was it an article that someone shared; did you see it on a news organization's page?
Caller: Someone shared it from feednewz.
Me (after looking up feednewz): Ma'am, feednewz is a prank website.
Caller: Well, if it is true it'd be a knife in the backs of Alabamians.

Call #3 (abbreviated due to length of call)
Caller: I have evidence and I talked to a lawyer who advised me to go public with this information. Don't let me scare you but it dates back to 2001.

I, of course (happy that she warned me up front), promptly transferred her to my assignment editor who attempted to help her. However, this lady wouldn't give him her name or a phone number, so in the end we couldn't help her.