Lonely nokia phones
Around 2000-2002 there were a generation of older Nokia slab phones with 2 or 3 buttons under the b/w display just before the lttle four arrowed centre button came in. (3330 might have been one?)

These had a bug that even with keyboard locked they would very sometimes randomly call someone from the address list in the phone ( apparently not the sim.) But it was usually the same number associated with place in the contacts list in phone memory.

One place where I worked had one of these as contact phone when you were outside tending to gear. 3 or 4 times over a few months It rang one of the other engineers at home, not a problem apart from "bloody phone" as it was an open line and not until they rang back did you know, and you would have loads of outgoings of 5 seconds!
As numbers were added it would phone someone different.

Then came the fun it moved the " I`m lonely" call number to one of the senior managers who was the out of hours contact for the emergency procedures, and had to escalate them.

An open phone line said I was struggling with a problem that was so difficult I couldn`t speak as all the main systems were down and considerable panic ensued!!!!! Needless to say the phone was changed shortly after.

I had a similar handset upgrade shortly afterwards and called back in the wee smalls a few times.( didn`t do much for PAYG minutes either)
A tame Nokia contact said there was a software update to fix this, but the idiots knew nothing about it at the shop I got it from.

I was glad when it got nicked soon after, 3am calls don`t do you much good. that was the last phone i`ve bothered insuring since they keep sending me more and more (ergonomically crapper) handsets.
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