Blow a whistle in their ear

If blowing a referee's whistle can damage the hearing of people officiating at a football game, out in the open, imagine what it will do to your hearing using it in the house.  It has been proven that a whistle or air horn will produce sufficient decibels to damage hearing.  Try looking it up, sometimes Google is your friend and then you get to learn something as a bonus.

A lot of phones today have sensors in them to prevent extra loud noises otherwise you could hurt your own ears if there is a loud noise while you are on the phone. As to the phones where you can actually blow a whistle into the mouthpiece causing the other person to sue you for "hurting their ears", let them try. They are violating your privacy especially if you are on the Do Not Call Registry. I have had many idiots call my home and wake me at 8am when I did not fall asleep until 7am and when I tell them I am not interested or how they woke me up, they scream profanity at me and hang up. Thank God I now have a Call Blocker and these Scammers do not get through anymore.

Please explain to me how it WOULDN'T hurt your ears. If you're blowing a whistle hard enough to (alledgedly) hurt the ears of your caller, you would quite obviosuly be blowing it hard enough to hurt your own.

Not to mention that the telephone network is NOT going to transmit a signal (compression loss, band-pass filters, clipping) to a remote phone and blast a 120dB sound from the earpiece (which the tiny speaker simply can't replicate that type of volume). You will definitely be hurting yourself more than the other person.

I love messing with them, but this simply is not a good long (or even short) term solution for your own health.

Exactly. No point in thiss tunt but so many people seem to think it's a good idea. SMH. Personally, I just never answer calls from numbers I don't know. Only ONCE in recent memory was it actually a call from someone I knew but who wasn't in my phone. All others (few as they are) have been garbage calls.

"I have had many idiots call my home and wake me at 8am when I did not fall asleep until 7am..."

As a fellow night owl, I feel your pain... or I used to. Then I got a phone with call blocking AND a "sleep timer". This allows me to set a period (6 am- 12:30 pm) where the phone is absolutely silent. It will accept calls and messages but, won't make a sound.

Added bonus: with limited slots for blocked numbers I use a 3 call rule before blocking. Early mornings (6:30 on) is when the barrage starts. I've had a several numbers hit the 3 call limit before I even got out of bed and got themselves blocked without ever getting my phone to ring at all. Bwa hah ha!

Blocking entire area codes whenever possible save blocking slots and wear and tear (on you).

do you have the same sympathy for scam callers who milk money out of people over the phone?

I love the whistle idea.  I will buy the loudest one.

Have fun damaging your hearing then and having to pay for hearing aids

You should have charges pressed against you for saying you understand how abusive your calls are but you're just going to do them anyway. If the whistle making your head ring isn't enough, well, guess you are just too stupid to learn. Do you think people haven't asked to not be called back over and over and over again?

I bought an air horn at Walmart. Possibly the best $7 I've ever spent. I've been getting 3 or 4 calls a day on my cell phone for over a week now for an "extended car warranty". I initially tried to be polite and every time I asked to be removed (at least 6 or 7 times) from their calling list or asked to speak with a supervisor they'd just immediately hang up. And of course they're using fake numbers so it shows up as a different number every time so you can't block them. As annoying as telemarketers are I wouldn't do that to them but these are scammers. They just want your credit card and even if they are technically a "legitimate" business they're selling bogus warranties that do nothing. I recorded it on my phone with Clyp.it and when you go back to listen you can hear them throw off their headset. I don't feel bad at all. These scumbags are actively taking part in a scam and they know damn well they're taking advantage of people.

...we are beating a dead horse here, this thread should be closed.