Submitted by Andrew Boyd:
A Canadian comedy duo called The Masked Avengers from CKOI 96.9 FM in Montreal, Quebec pranked Sarah Palin, convincing her (and her team) they were receiving a call from French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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The Barack Obama Crank-Call Generator
Slate’s Presidential Election Soundboards
by Christopher Beam, Andy Bouve, and Jim Festante
Slate.com
October 17, 2008
If you live in a swing state, you’re probably getting deluged with phone calls. Volunteers, staffers, even candidates themselves””or at least recordings of them””are hassling you at all times of day and night.
Here’s your chance to join in on the fun.
If you were around in the early days of the Internet, you may have discovered the joy of soundboards””grids of buttons that play different phrases, usually spoken by a celebrity. The basic idea: You call someone up and use the soundboard to simulate your end of the conversation. The best soundboard, hands down, featured Arnold Schwarzenegger and produced some prank calls that rose to the level of art.
Just in time for the election, Slate presents the next generation of crank-call technology: the John McCain and Barack Obama soundboards. Just call up a friend, enemy, pizza place, or rival campaign press office and use the sound effects [here]. Continue reading “The Barack Obama Crank-Call Generator”
African Hold Music?
Two videos of prank calls during which callers are told they’re on hold while phony hold music is played:
First, from LumpBrady0: A telemarketer calls us at work and we decide to pull a quick prank on her and tell her the hold music that our phones are set to is our boss at a local museaum for black appreciation month. Check out more at www.lumpbrady.com.
And then, from AJA095: Mark Phillip, A.J. Alexander, and Duncan Stevens put an Xbox service guy on hold.
African Safari Hold Music Continue reading “African Hold Music?”
Late for His Flight, He Call’s in a Bomb Scare
Soccer-Euro-Late reporter stages plane bomb hoax to reach game
Reuters UK
June 12, 2008
Rome – A German sports reporter who was late for his plane to cover the European Championships staged a bomb scare at Italy’s Verona airport in order to delay its take-off, police said on Thursday.
The 27-year-old reporter, who has not been identified, called police saying a bomb had been planted on the Air Dolomiti flight to Vienna on Wednesday, police in northern Verona told Reuters by telephone on Thursday.
The airport was closed for about two hours and two incoming flights were forced to land at another airport.
The reporter arrived at check-in just five minutes before the scheduled take off, shortly after the phone call announcing the bomb scare.
When told he was too late to check in he said he had heard the plane was still not ready for take off, even though the airport officials had still not made any announcement of any delay.
“He changed his version several times, first claiming he had arrived at the airport on time and then admitting he only arrived five minutes before take-off,” a police officer said.
The man’s mobile phone was linked to the call.
He was arrested and charged with causing an alarm and interrupting a public service.
image: inmagine.com
Really Mean Phone Prank
Danny Dumps: Angie. Cheating girl dumped live on radio.
(listen to or download the mp3 below)
Another episode of the extremely popular “Danny Dumps”, a program hosted by GalaxyFM, a local FM radio station in Yorkshire, England.
This time we meet Craig. A chap who wanted to ask his girlfriend to marry him on Christmas Day, after a four year relationship. Only to find out, through his friends and her colleagues, his girlfriend was doing her married boss at the company’s Christmas party. He then asked radiohost Danny to dump her, live!
image: Press the Buttons, thanks Nick