maybe funny but it's fake.

Snopes lists its veracity as "Undetermined", and states that Jack-In-The-Box confirmed that it is a real voicemail left by an employee. Of course that doesn’t confirm that the accident was real; just that the voicemail is.

Michael Childs insists that he is the guy who left the voicemail and that the account is true.

Jim

http://fr.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1qp024/man_leaves_best_voicemail_ever_after_witnessing/

Didn't see anything there but opinion. Did I miss something?

Jim

It *seems* obvious to me.. People are not capable of such long smooth flowery descriptions of unfolding events.

The things that stood out to me were the lack of appropriate background sounds and how he knew what exact translation of the bible the old woman was beating the guy up with. That doesn't seem possible if the events were real.

Snopes lists its veracity as "Undetermined", and states that Jack-In-The-Box confirmed that it is a real voicemail left by an employee. Of course that doesn’t confirm that the accident was real; just that the voicemail is.

Back when I worked for a courier company, I once had a driver tell me over the phone that the reason why he didn't finish his route and took the deliveries home with him (which is absolutely NOT allowed and considered theft) was because halfway through his route, he had to pull over because he was having a massive heart attack, then figured the best course of action afterwards was to go home and get some sleep, not go to a hospital, not call and tell me there was a problem, not call and arrange pickup of his deliveries by another driver.  

And he looked just fine that afternoon when he came in and requested more deliveries from me, and couldn't understand why I didn't want to give him any till he provided me with a medical release, verifying his heart attack and that he was currently fit to work.

So, I will believe that people do leave ridiculous, insane, and creative voicemails to explain why they are late or not coming in. It's the evolved version of "the dog ate my homework".  

Some humour and some truth...
Things we may learn as we mature. (consolidated Dec. 2007)

99% of the time when something isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Computing: 665.9238429876 - Number of the Pentium Beast.
Computing: A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.
Computing: A printer consists of three main parts:  The case, the jammed paper tray, and the blinking red light.
Computing: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Computing: All wiyht.  Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
Computing: As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
Computing: At the source of every error that is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
Computing: Beta - is Latin for "still doesn't work."
Computing: Beta - software undergoes beta testing shortly before it's released.
Computing: Computer analyst to programmer:  You start coding.  I'll go find out what they want.
Computing: Computer Science:  Solving today's problems tomorrow.
Computing: Do not unpack unit before reading instructions.  They're inside the sealed box.
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Computing: Hidden DOS secret:  Add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS.
Computing: Hit any user to continue.
Computing: I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than eating soup with a knife.
Computing: If your computer says:  Printer out of Paper, this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the "OK" button.
Computing: Intel:  We put the "um" in Pentium.
Computing: Life's unfair - but root password helps!
Computing: Microsoft Windows:  Computing While U Wait.
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Computing: Real programmers don't document.  If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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Money is a lousy way of keeping score.
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Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.

99% of the time when something isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it.

We have a special term for that in my house, and it's named after my husband.  

Computing: A printer consists of three main parts:  The case, the jammed paper tray, and the blinking red light.

5 main parts...all of the above, the empty ink cartridge, and the indecipherable error message that won't go away.  

Computing: If your computer says:  Printer out of Paper, this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the "OK" button.

But it can be resolved by taking a sledge hammer to a printer, that's obviously full of paper.  

Sure, this in itself is also rather funny, like the joke, but could be somewhat tedious unless deliberately done for the amusement/entertainment of others.
There would seem to be a possibility that the amusing joke could either be true or false, so couldn't we just leave it at that? There is such a thing as "killing" someone else's joke, after all.

+1

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

Attributed to Einstein, I presume.

Attributed to every married couple since the beginning of time. 

How many of these can you answer without cheating?

Q:  What's the difference between a teacher and a train?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A:  A teacher says "no chewing" and a train says "choo-choo"!

Q:  What do you call a lion tamer who sticks his right arm down a lion's
   throat?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A:  Lefty!

Q:  What happens if you don't pay your exorcist?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A:  You get repossessed!

Q:  Why aren't elephants allowed on beaches?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A:  They can't keep their trunks up!

Q:  How do you cut through waves?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A:  With a sea-saw!

Q:  If a man smashed a clock, could he be accused of killing time?

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A:  Not if the clock struck first!

280 English jokes  Any Polish jokes in response should be in Polish.

Qatar's accidental vagina stadium is most gratifying

This comment on the article  bears repeating:

This is the kind of thing that happens when you try hard not to think about something. 'DO NOT THINK ABOUT VAGINAS DO NOT THING ABOUT VAGI...ah dammit. I made a massive vagina stadium.'

Haha!

Maybe Zork closed the book on this in 1981:
"A maze of twisty little statements, all alike. And if you believe them, you are likely to be financially ruined by a grue!"

O_O Now THAT is a bad Font choice ... Holy shit!