Tag: PRANK

Now that he no longer needs to worry about running Microsoft on a day to day basis, Bill Gates has lost his mind. After taking the stage at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, the former CEO of Microsoft declared, "Not only poor people should experience this," and let loose a swarm of mosquitoes on the crowd. It almost (but only almost) makes sense when you realize that the ...

Prank phone calls are usually made by bored 12-year-olds looking for a laugh. But there are enough older folks out there who are no more mature than those 12-year-olds. What's worse, they've added new tools to their arsenals -- VoIP Internet calling services. Due to bugs in the way 911 services around the country handle calls from Internet-based sources, it is easy for these pranksters to spoof ...

Who knew paying bills could actually be fun? We certainly didn't, but an Australian man changed our minds after he attempted to settle a bill with a drawing of a spider. The prank has since become hugely popular on the Web. When a utility company rep told David Thorne that he owed them $233.95, he emailed her back with the above drawing of a seven-legged spider, saying that he valued it at ...

digg_url ='http://digg.com/celebrity/How_World_Leaders_Call_Each_Other'; Some seemed to think it was embarrassing when Sarah Palin was fooled into believing that a Canadian radio shock jock was French president Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before election day. Many people (including some commenters on this site) defended Palin, asking how she could have known (ignoring the obvious clues such as ...

Those political pranksters, The Yes Men, are at it again in a stunt that, regardless of your ideology, you must admit is impressive. The "operation," six months in the planning, involved six printing presses and thousands of volunteers across the nation who handed out 1.2 million copies of a 14-page mock issue of the New York Times. Commuters exiting trains in New York and in other cities were ...

A comedy duo called 'The Masked Avengers' from a Montreal-based radio station pulled off an impressive feat when they managed to get Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin on the phone and convince her she was talking to French president Nicholas Sarkozy. Palin doesn't seem to figure out that it's a prank call, despite obvious clues. The prank caller makes a joking reference that Sarkozy can see ...

Wikis (and Wikipedia in particular) are wonderful tools that show the potential of Web 2.0. Because wikis are editable by anyone, they are particularly vulnerable to attacks and "digital graffiti." The most recent attack is captured in this screenshot on COED Magazine's Web site, in which fans of the University of Florida football team went to town on the Wikipedia entry for their rivals, the ...

Got an Obama supporting friend you really want to confuse? Follow a bit of advice from Wonkette and use one of those semi-anonymous text messaging sites to send a fake message announcing that that Barack Obama has chosen (Hillary Clinton, Gary Glitter, etc...) as his Vice Presidential nominee. No doubt your Obamaniac friend is sitting, sweaty palmed, by his cell phone waiting for the text ...

Kids do the darnedest things sometimes. Take the 14-year-old from Lodz, Poland, who hacked a television remote control to manipulate his city's tram system, thereby derailing four trams, and injuring 12 people. Little rapscallion, what can you do? Apparently charge him with endangering public safety and drag him before a juvenile court. Or at least that's what the court in Lodz did in the case ...

YouTube is filled with bad lip syncing, lousy pranks, and (now) police evidence. It seems it's become quite popular for folks to videotape themselves throwing liquid on drive-through workers while yelling "fire in the hole," and, of course, posting it on YouTube. Well, it seems that the Pittsburgh Police Department isn't laughing. An employee at an area Subway was recently pelted in the eyes ...