Phone Booth Wins Again . Three men who stole a telephone booth from a service station lot and tried to put it inside a friend's apartment as a pratical joke were foiled when the booth would not fit through the doorway, police in Maple Shade, New Jersey said. . A patrolman responding to an anonymous call about three men trying to carry a phone booth into an apartment, found the pranksters replacing the front door. . The men were released on $2,000 bail each after being charged with theft.