Before long, the caller rings off: Gavin, from Farnham, is vanquished.
In a separate incident, a caller rang GCHQ and managed to obtain Hannigan's mobile phone number.
During a conversation with the Guardian, an anonymous caller rang his house phone and breathed silently on the other end of the line.
We have to answer every phone call, so when a 9am caller rings back at 10am because his problem is not yet solved, he's cross about it.
Andrews said he was contacted after a caller rang a Belfast newsroom to state that a bomb had been left outside the house.
When a cold caller rings my mobile, this is designated as coming from a private number, yet my own number is apparently not private.
It will also mute your phone between preset hours at night, and set up lists of favourite contacts that allows a phone call through if the caller rings twice in quick succession.
In Grange's case, the caller rang her in February to say that someone had siphoned £1,000 out of her accounts and asked whether she had authorised the transactions.
Callers rang police giving his name.
The callers rang the station in Vermont, from all across the region, and I tried to answer their questions as best I could from a cubicle crowded with CDs of the Bob & Ray Show all of us intertwining in the ether somewhere.
