125. Documentary Review: Don't Pick Up the Phone

Written By Alienist Entertainment

This month we give our run down and review of the 2022 Netflix documentary, Don't Pick Up the Phone, which account the 10 year span of "hoax" calls in which a person pretending to be a police officer called up fast food managers and had them perform strip-searches on employees suspected in thefts. We discuss what sexual offense category this fits under and what psychological processes are at work with the people submitting to these outlandish requests by the caller.

Resources

  • Leiva, Javier. Pretend. pretendradio.org/. Accessed 4 Jan. 2023. Podcast.

  • Stump, Buddy, et al. “Don’t Pick up the Phone.” IMDb, 14 Dec. 2022, www.imdb.com/title/tt23826740/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0. Accessed 4 Jan. 2023.

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