http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prank/ en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:08:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2338962/posts Diboll man makes first court appearance Accused 'Prankster' faces felony charges By JESSICA SAVAGEThe Lufkin Daily News Thursday, September 10, 2009 A Diboll man made his first court appearance Wednesday on felony charges related to a Lufkin McDonald's prank call which cost more than $5,000 in damages.James Tyler Markle has been appointed an attorney to represent him on a third-degree felony charge of terroristic threat. He is being held in the county jail on a $10,000 bail. Jessica Savage/The Lufkin Daily News (ENLARGE) James Tyler Markle, 19, is escorted Wednesday morning from the Angelina County Courthouse by sheriff's deputy L.... Lufkin Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2338962/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:08:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323007/posts In a blunder that might top the Baby Shaker app on Apple's App Store, retailing giant Sears.com has been caught offering a Bar-B-Que grill specially designed to roast infants and other human morsels. The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323007/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:43:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309830/posts It’s looking more and more like the forged “Kenyan birth certificate” released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab points to an anonymous blogger at FearlessBlogging, who has uploaded four photos of the original forgery and a mocking declaration: Fine cotton business paper: $11 Inkjet printer: $35 1940 Royal Model KMM manual typewriter: $10 2 Shilling coin: $1 Pilot Varsity fountain pen: $3 Punkin’ the Birthers: Priceless Washington Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309830/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:53:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309290/posts How intolerant of them not to listen patiently while the Democrats’ own mob of irate liberal zombies calls in to tell them what Nazis they are. Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309290/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 02:15:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309254/posts The Democratic National Committee released a web video yesterday entitled "Enough of the Mob," which suggests that Republicans and their allies are "organizing angry mobs" to "destroy President Obama and stop the change Americans voted for." The video concludes by asking supporters to call the Republican Party and "tell them you've had enough of the mob." The phone number of the Republican National Committee then appears onscreen. Those who call the number are told to press one if they are calling in regard to the DNC video. When they do, they are told to call a different phone number "to... See BS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309254/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:22:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2294400/posts Sometimes it’s hard to tell what to believe when you read it on the web. The recent “Unknown Lifeform” in North Carolina? Turns out, not a hoax, but also not a monster. But all those rumors about Jeff Goldblum falling to his death in New Zealand? Well, those were a hoax, and a rather tasteless one at that. For hundreds of years, humans have been playing elaborate tricks on each other, but the advent of social tools — from Usenet and email right on up to YouTube () and Twitter () — means that hoaxes are much more easily spread,... Mashable http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2294400/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:24:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291632/posts Please, sir, do not throw your toilet out the window, no matter what the stranger on the phone is telling you. If the phone in your hotel room rings unexpectedly at 2 in the morning, you might soon become the next victim of a network of scammers who are causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage at accommodations around the country. Often imitated and deviously duplicated, a group called PrankNET appears to be at the center of a growing trend that has harried hoteliers and restaurateurs for months and is now being investigated by the FBI. During their calls... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291632/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:32:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266965/posts NOTE: I post this because my nephew and Godson is thinking he might like to attend Cal Tech and will paying it a visit soon. ================================================= THE GREAT ROSE BOWL HOAX THE LONGEST LIST OF THE LONGEST STUFF AT THE LONGEST DOMAIN NAME AT LONG LAST The Great Rose Bowl Hoax The College Prank that Set the Standard Picture it: The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, January 2, 1961. The game is being played on the 2nd day of the New Year due to the 1st falling on a Sunday. The stadium is at capacity for the college championship battle... the longest list http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266965/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 04:02:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264147/posts Some Southern Lehigh High School students who camped in the school's courtyard overnight as a senior prank could face trespassing charges and disciplinary action. Brian McLaughlin of Upper Saucon Township police, who is assigned to the school as a resource officer, said 17 boys took part in the Monday night prank. He is investigating whether any others were involved. The Morning Call .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264147/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 22:39:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2236845/posts Pupils at a school in the US broke into their portable classrooms and placed their chairs and tables on the roof. Aerial footage and mobile phone pictures reveal how much furniture they were able to move in the prank which teachers think occurred overnight at Cypress Creek High School in Orange County, Florida. video@link bbc.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2236845/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:02:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204445/posts Recently a photo of Barnes & Noble book display board was circulated widely over the Internet. The photo showed various books about President Obama around a central photo of a monkey book. Barnes & Noble claims some prankster did this intentionally. The photo shown in this site was the catalyst of this controversy. The photos shows a book on monkeys “Monkey: A Captivating Look at These Fascinating Animals” with a number of books around it focusing on President Obama and his wife Michelle. The book chain Barnes & Noble deny someone deliberately placed the monkey book in the display. They... digitaljournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204445/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:23:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204081/posts CULLOWHEE (AP) — Two former students at Western Carolina University have received probation for charges related to their dumping on campus a dead bear with Barack Obama campaign signs on its head. District Court Judge Richlyn Holt sentenced brothers Marvin Caleb Williams of Wilkesboro and Mathew Colton Williams to probation Tuesday after they pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported today that their attorney, Kris Earwood, said the brothers were kicked out of the university and now attend community college. Assistant District Attorney Camila Wright said a campus police investigation revealed no political or racial motivation in... AP via News and Record http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204081/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:55:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193133/posts WBAL-TV has fired a reporter who inserted a graphic phrase in a video for a prank — only to have the doctored version surface on Web sites nationwide. Wanda Draper, director of public affairs for the NBC affiliate, confirmed Tuesday afternoon that technology reporter John Sanders no longer is employed by the station. According to accounts published on the Internet, Sanders admitted inserting a graphic phrase into a video to make it appear that John Gibson of Fox News was denigrating U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. In the faked video, which appeared first on YouTube and later on The Huffington... baltimoresun.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193133/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:00:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2175434/posts Some clever techies confused PETA supporters today by pulling a well-executed prank against their campaign to “re-brand” fish as sea kittens. For at least a couple hours today, the internet was abuzz with the fact that www.SeaKittens.com had an Omaha Steaks ad smack-dab at the top of the page.... Evil Conservative Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2175434/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174998/posts It took four years for Google to address the "Google bomb" that was lobbed at former President Bush. But it took the Internet behemoth only a few days to defuse the same attack on President Obama. Four years versus a few days ... Some Googlers are asking why. In 2003, President Bush's detractors successfully gamed the Google search engine by arranging to have countless Web sites link the words "miserable failure" to Bush's official biography on the White House Web site. The result was that when someone typed the search term "miserable failure" into the Google search box, Bush's bio... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174998/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:49:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173584/posts Transportation officials in Texas are scrambling to prevent hackers from changing messages on digital road signs after one sign in Austin was altered to read, "Zombies Ahead." Chris Lippincott, director of media relations for the Texas Department of Transportation, confirmed that a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and West 15th Street, near the University of Texas at Austin, was hacked into during the early hours of Jan. 19. "It was clever, kind of cute, but not what it was intended for," said Lippincott, who saw the sign during his morning commute. "Those signs are deployed for a reason —... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173584/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157831/posts Police investigate explosion in Starbucks in Rhode IslandThe Associated Press Friday January 02, 2009, 9:22 AM Police are investigating a small explosion that led to the evacuation of a Starbucks coffee shop in Providence, R.I. No injuries were reported and police said the only damage was minor charring on the floor. Investigators believe someone set off a homemade incendiary device in a plastic soda bottle as a prank Thursday night, police Maj. Thomas Oates said. About 25 people were in the shop on the city's East Side when the explosion happened. **SNIP** Oregon Live http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157831/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:38:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155563/posts The Times, which last month mocked Sarah Palin for getting taken in by a French prank…got taken in by a French prank, printing a letter Monday allegedly from Bertrand Delanoe, the Mayor of Paris, calling Caroline Kennedy's bid for a U.S. Senate seat as "appalling" and "not very democratic." Times Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155563/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:12:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142639/posts Obama tried to reach across the partisan divide twice yesterday with a phone call to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Florida, our colleague Anne E. Kornblut reports. And twice, according to her office, she hung up on him. She "thought it was a hoax," an aide to the congresswoman said. WAPOOP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142639/posts#comment Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:10:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142527/posts Then Rahm called her. And she hung up on him, too. I hereby offer one of my kidneys in exchange for the audio. Mint condition! Aside from a little Jack Daniel’s damage. In a series of hang-up and follow-up calls that appears to have taken up much of the afternoon, Ros-Lehtinen first received a call on her cell phone, from a Chicago phone number, and was informed by the caller that Obama wished to speak with her. When a man sounding like Obama got on the line, Ros-Lehtinen cut him off, saying, “I’m sorry, but I think this is a... Hotair.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142527/posts#comment Thu, 4 Dec 2008 03:03:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140571/posts When a Santa hat was placed on a spire at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the joke was lost on authorities who had it removed because it was a risk to health and safety. A team of 10 firefighters using two fire engines and a support vehicle with a hydraulic platform spent an hour lowering the seasonal headgear, which had been fastened to a 60ft spire about the college entrance known for centuries as the Gate of Humility. The culprit remains a mystery, but it is thought to be a student playing a practical joke following an end-of-term night out.... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140571/posts#comment Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:06:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122460/posts Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday."Maybe in eight years," replies a laughing Palin.The Republican vice presidential nominee discusses politics, the perils of hunting with Vice President Dick Cheney, and Sarkozy's "beautiful wife," in a recording of the call released Saturday and set to air Monday on a Quebec radio station. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122460/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 12:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122064/posts Two well-known Canadian pranksters tricked Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin into thinking she was on the phone today with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The conversation, captured on a Montreal radio program, was, in a word, embarrassing. (Politico's Ben Smith was among the first to pick up on reports from The Canadian Press.) The fake Sarkozy buttered Palin up by telling her he hoped she would become president some day. "Haha, maybe in eight years," Palin replied. Then the conversation turned to helicopter hunting, with a mention of Vice President Dick Cheney's infamous bad shot. "One of my favorite activities... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122064/posts#comment Sat, 1 Nov 2008 23:10:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121916/posts MONTREAL — A Quebec comedy duo notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state has reached Sarah Palin, convincing the Republican vice-presidential nominee she was speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In the interview, which lasts about six minutes, Ms. Palin and the pranksters discuss politics, pundits, and the dangers of hunting with Vice-President Dick Cheney. The Masked Avengers, who have a regular show on Montreal radio station CKOI, intend to air the full interview on the eve of the U.S. elections. The well-known duo of Sebastien Trudel and Marc-Antoine Audette have also tricked Rolling Stones singer Mick... Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121916/posts#comment Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:45:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118524/posts A flyer advising Republicans to cast their election ballots Nov. 4 – and Democrats on Nov. 5 – has been distributed throughout several Hampton Roads communities in Virginia. The notice is dated Oct. 24 and features a Virginia State Board of Elections logo and state seal, the Virginian-Pilot reported. WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118524/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:55:03 GMT