Bad Labor Hoax

For those of you who listen to Matty in the Morning on Kiss 108, if you were listening to yesterday's show between 7:40 and 8am, you would have heard what eventually turned out to be a hoax. Matty has a segment that starts around 7:40, called "Right Now" on Monday & Tuesday. It's basically the part of the show when the phone lines open up for people to call and tell everyone what is happening to them right there and then. It's one of my favorite segments - people have some really crazy stories. Yesterday's fit well into that "crazy" category. I woman called in who was apparently from Weymouth, on her way to the hospital because she had gone into labor and she couldn't get in touch with her husband. She said that her husband is a CPA (certified public account) and when he is with a client, he shuts his cell phone off. Already, the story is a little off. If a guy's wife is 9 months pregnant, he should be on the edge of his seat that the phone could ring at any moment! She said that she had left her "idiot husband" a thousand messages. She had what she said was her 2 year old (I can't remember now if it was a boy or girl) in the back seat. You could hear the toddler talking or crying in the background at one point or another. Matty and Billy were both talking her through what she said were contractions. She was driving from Weymouth to the Boston Medical Center in morning rush hour - there was no way she was going to make it to the hospital, even though her water hadn't broken yet. Matty's people were already on the phone with the Police department, trying to figure out where she was so the police could either escort her to the hospital or get an ambulance for her. They couldn't find her anywhere, at least where she said she was. She described her car and apparently where she was. Even other people who were where she said she was, called into the show and said that there was no one there. Jim from the Matty Show was even timing her contractions, which were closer and closer together. She fought for a short while with Matty telling them she didn't want an escort - I wonder why?! She finally stopped her car because she had to walk around... and then suddenly her husband called and she hung up.
Fox 25 news found out about this "Labor Hoax" and interviewed Weymouth residents on what they thought about this story - people couldn't believe the story. The police department said that they had several cars on the road as well as an ambulance and a fire truck on the lookout for someone who was not in need of any of these things. Matty and his crew reacted the way they should have - and thankfully they aren't as mad as they should be. Whoever this prankster is or was, should be caught and dealt with.