I and a couple of friends were among the first tenants at the brand new, beautiful Celeron Square apartments.
A year later we all moved to the grad dorms. Celeron Square offices in the early days were in a small office on Rte 195 just off campus.
I was too lazy to collect my deposit for the apartment and I used to call their office to get the recording for their office hours. I was a grad student and used to spend late nights in the lab and called them in the middle of the night a few times. It was always a recording and I always planned to go the next day, which I never did.
One late night, several months (may be even a year later) after I left the apartment, somebody answered the phone, and I panicked and hung up the phone. I thought I dialed a wrong number or something changed at the office.
A few weeks later there was a note on my dorm room from the police dept asking me to stop by at the police station. Not knowing what the issue was, I was slightly apprehensive. An officer sat me down in a room and asked (interrogated) me for about 20 minutes. He asked me if I called people in the night, if I stayed up, if I ever made prank calls, etc. I had absolutely no clue what he was talking about, I had totally forgotten that call to Celeron Sq and never thought much about it. I told him several of us grad students spent late nights in the lab, often staying up all night, and we routinely called each other in the night. My first reaction was one of my friends made a complaint about late night calls.
Finally he asked me if I knew 429-3627 (I am good at remembering numbers) and I immediately told him that's the number for Celeron Square apartments and I had called them a few times and about my deposit.
He let me go and told me that the manager at the time was receiving lots of prank calls and that they were from South Africa. And also that the office phone now moved into the resident manager's house at the apartments.
