Re:The vanishing, underappreciated prank call
by peterwwillis on Monday June 23, 2014 @11:54AM
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Pranking is a lot more of a niche now than it ever was, but it's still alive. For some unholy reason PLA is still around: http://www.phonelosers.org/
My favorite pranks were on confs with other loser kids from IRC, usually calling up either a business support line and trolling them with unsolveable product bugs, or something more esoteric, like calling up a sexual assault line and asking what counted as sexual assault, or an STD prevention hotline asking about strange maladies. Invariably someone else would hop on the line and make the whole thing into a soap opera for the poor abused call center monkey.
If there's not that many pranks anymore it's probably because kids are finding new ways to deal with boredom.
My favorite pranks were on confs with other loser kids from IRC, usually calling up either a business support line and trolling them with unsolveable product bugs, or something more esoteric, like calling up a sexual assault line and asking what counted as sexual assault, or an STD prevention hotline asking about strange maladies. Invariably someone else would hop on the line and make the whole thing into a soap opera for the poor abused call center monkey.
If there's not that many pranks anymore it's probably because kids are finding new ways to deal with boredom.