Had a party line when I was growing up. Old lady across the alley was ALWAYS listening so we staged a murder. Screaming in th ebackgound "I am going to kill you" fired a blank from a pistol, sound of a body hitting the floor and more screaming "you killed him".
Cops show up... no body, no blood.. hey where did you hear someone was killed here? X across the alley called it in. Oh really, how did she know? That is 200 feet away. Well she said she heard it on the phone... as we started laughing... cop caught on and said "You didn't!". He ticketed her for listening in on somebody else's phone call, plus the phone company went after her...