So this lady is part of group apparently. They believe that the that the movie 2012 is an actual possibility. Shortly after watching 2012, I prank called my friends who work on the IceCube project studying neutrinos pretending to be one of these people.

westy you forced me to put a hiatus on my lurking.

He isn't over exaggerating the risk at all and really, why let the caller keep cutting into the response/information when she clearly has no clue. Also, Leo Laporte is a really friendly person. I don't think he comes off like a dick... it's just a really funny call. Someone calls in because their stolen wireless is gone... this is the kind of material for a prank call.

I thought I had become jaded to prank calls, but that was above and beyond.

Oh,yeah...sooooo clever. This is on par with prank calling your neighbor to ask if their fridge is running. Better go catch it! AHHAAHhAHHAHAhAHAh HOhOhOhoho.
Dumb.

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I usually hate prank calls, but she rolled with this one perfectly if it's real. Awesome.

>> ^EDD:
Now to only find some kind of evolutionary advantage to neckties...


You got me curious. I did a little searching to see if ties ever had any function besides being a fashion item. I thought maybe they used to be used to wipe sweat off your face or blow your nose or something, but no, it pretty much started out as a fashion piece going back to ancient Egypt as a way to show ones social status.

I found some other interesting things about ties that I didn't know, like wearing ties can be hazardous to your health.

Doctors in British hospitals are not allowed to wear ties when seeing patients because they are a good place for bacteria to cling to and cause cross contamination of patients. Ties aren't washed as often, so they're like little hotels for bacteria.

As a spokesperson for the British Department of Health pointed out, however, ties perform no useful function and their colonies of dangerous bacteria may spread infections within a hospital. [link]



A boy spent three days in hospital after his school tie was tightly pulled round his neck in a prank called the 'peanut'.

The 13-year-old student was stretchered away and taken to a specialist spinal injuries unit after he was set upon as a joke at Oxted County School in Surrey.

The victim, who is currently recovering at home after being treated at East Surrey Hospital, has been left so traumatised that he's too frightened to wear a tie in fear that the prank will happen again.

...The prank involves yanking a tie downwards so the knot tightens to the size of a peanut. [link]


I thought this was kind of funny from the Wikipedia article: Neckties are viewed by various sub and counter culture movements as being a symbol of submission and slavery (ie having a symbolic chain around ones neck) to the corrupt elite of society, as a "wage-slave". [link]

I just don't like wearing ties because they are uncomfortable, serve no purpose and get in the way.

I haven't seen a single post in defense of the cop, so that's what I'll do LOL

It's a stressful job, he gets a lot of prank calls. A young girl calls in cursing. He snapped.

Can't the girl have some humility and stop cursing if she needs help that bad? Can't she FOCUS on doing what is necessary for getting help for her dad instead of MAKING VERBAL THREATS to the person she needs help from and complaining about the service?

Cops are supposed to protect and serve, but hey, guess what, they are also human beings. You shouldn't expect to get service if you treat people badly.

P.S.: I'm not a christian and there are no cops in my family.

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second time
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-mother-of-all-prank-calls

it's a duplicate of:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Tom-Mabe-funny-phone-call

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Tom-Mabe-funny-phone-call

Or here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Chinese-Takeaway-Prank-Call

>> ^swope:
Sounds like the same ppl, but I think "Chinese Takeaway" is funnier:
http://www.break.com/index/takeaway1.html

>> ^antonye:
LOL! How did they not work out they were talking to each other at the same bank?!?


This isn't a bank. This is a call center FOR a bank. I used to work at a call center for Xbox here in Kitchener. However, 9/10 people who called in have the same mentality as you do and think we're all working for the repair center IN texas.

Odds are, these people aren't even in the same building.

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Excellent! This reminds me of another radio prank call where they dialed up 2 phone sex operators and had them talk to each other,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i25AGsPD3Sc

check it out!

i hate all prank calls except this one.