The moral of the story is: Never give out information about your victims and never use real names or business names in your prank calls or soundboards.
and just as important as beeping out names and businesse is making sure you never call the same place twice
what's great about soundboard pranks is that it's an art form of sorts - you have only so many things you can say, and it's more about seeing how ridiculous you can make the conversation before the person knows it has to be a prank call
repeatedly calling somebody, just trying to make them angry because you find anger amusing is the lowest form of prank calling
I'm not gonna deny that sometimes people say hilarious shit when they're pissed off, but any punk can repeatedly call people and tell them to fuck off in the hopes they'll lose their temper and start acting foolish
just shoot for funny conversations - if you only ever call someone once, and you don't threaten them or say disgusting things, then no one except the really uptight people will ever want to complain, and even then whoever they complain to will be able to tell by talking to them that they're just one of those people who calls the cops on their neighbors because their cat shit in their yard or something
if you really like the shouting match type of prank, just wait until someone is abusive to you first
for example, here's a real call we did a couple of years ago:
*rings*
Man: Hello. Such and so's restaurant.
Jack: Haya doin?
Man: Go stick your head in a bucket of shit.
*click*
if that guy hadn't hung up you better believe we would have pulled out all the stops on him
and we'd loved to have called him back repeatedly, but we fought the urge to try to cash in on his being a psychotic prick. We have the one-call-only rule so that we don't harass people. it's that simple.
smokey the bear says people that ignore prank call etiquette are out to ruin it for everyone
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