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My younger son had named his father "Mr Dork" on his phone, the friends also had funny nick names.
This turned to be handy, when son had dropped his phone somewhere in school and couldn't find it. Two class mates had found it and started making prank calls to some of those numbers. Since this buddy didn't realize "Mr Dork" would be an adult, hubby also received a call and he could tell it's not our son calling.
He used some kind of service to track whereabout the call had come. It didn't give an accurate address, but thanks to the kids' call, we knew the phone was safe somewhere and not lost in some bush behind the school back yard or beside the road, where it would have been hard to find, especially after battery had died.
We had planned to take the matter up with teachers next day, in fact I think we already called my son's teacher in the evening, so that they would question next day, who has the phone. But next morning someone saw the other boy trying to hide his act by putting the phone in a coat pocket of some 1st grader.
The boys got detention, we were happy enough to get the phone back and didn't want to push it to make them pay the calls, there weren't many. I hope the boys learned a lesson, they should have returned the phone, because they knew, who it belongs to - I can sort of understand the temptation to make prank calls, but they were afterwards trying to frame a younger kid, which is not acceptable, they also lied about taking the phone home, when obviously either one of the boys took it home according to the tracking service - they said they had hid the phone at school over night.
Well, they were 11-12 then and usually kids that age make mistakes. Either they learn not to do bad stuff again or they will learn to plan it more carefully...
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