21.   The screening practice also allows you to avoid some of the annoying entreaties from credit cards and long distance companies and escape most crank calls and heavy breathers.

22.   We get crank calls a lot.

23.   You know how Caller ID takes all the fun out of making crank calls to your boss in the middle of the night?

24.   But now, alarms that might have been dismissed as crank calls or exaggerated suspicion have to be taken more seriously.

25.   Crank calls are not a new phenomenon nor are they confined to our society.

26.   National police said they had not heard of other incidents, but local media said the Peruvian Embassy got some crank calls.

27.   Police in Tokyo said crank calls were received at the Peruvian Embassy and cars there also have been stoned.

28.   Police in Tokyo said crank calls were received at the Peruvian Embassy and cars there were also stoned.

29.   Reports of crank call makers being brought to book are rare indeed.

30.   Such erections while giving a false sense of an aphrodisiac, often lead such men to pursue women through crank calls, he said.