The calls have all been similar pranks: A frantic man urges hotel desk workers or guests to set off a fire sprinkler, sound an alarm or bust windows. It's always the same: Do it now! tags hotel prank callsA man was even convinced to drive his truck through a door of a hotel lobby in Nebraska, supposedly to turn off a fire alarm. And in California, a duped worker activated a sprinkler at the front desk, dousing computers, phones and other electrical equipment. picked by bingo 6 months ago |
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Some great audio of an 8-year old girl from Dublin, Ireland making prank phone calls. Becky is featured on an Irish morning radio show. Get started with a clip where she contacts a demolition company to blow up her school. Fill yer boots, man! picked by Mershaullk 3 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Wasabi, or Japanese Horseradish, has a particularly pungent taste and scent. Now researchers in Japan are using Wasabi's overpowering odor in a new type of smoke detector / fire alarm that wakes the deaf through scent instead of sound. picked by Mitzuzake 2 years ago 10 comments edit related share science |
A Japanese man arrested for making 388 prank phone calls to the local fire station between May 2006 and July this year said he did it because he was lonely. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
A surge in naked sleepwalking among guests has led one of the country's largest budget hotel groups to re-train staff to handle late-night nudity. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Jewish girl away from home at college prank calls her parents and tells them she started dating an Italian guy. The father threatens to kill the guy and the mothers comments are priceless picked by neo3979 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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Workers at an English department store didn't find the fun in the pun when bosses set off the fire alarm to clear the store and tell them they were fired. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A bat set off a fire alarm in a German highway tunnel early Friday, forcing an hour-long closure and causing long delays. picked by punthe 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share world |
Watch a number of videos from a fire that broke out earlier today in the Hollywood Hills near Griffith Park and the famed Hollywood sign. picked by indierockcafe 3 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Shannon Conwell, 33, said he and his 9-year-old son fell asleep on the couch while watching a movie. They awoke about 3 a.m. Friday to find their home on fire after hearing the family's Amazon parrot, Peanut, imitating a fire alarm. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
A wildfire in Santa Barbara, California last month helped forge some unlikely bonds. Rescued from the Jesusita Fire, a 3-week old bobcat kitten and 3 day old fawn became fast friends. The animal rescue in California brought predator and prey together. But these babies simply took comfort in each other’s company, snuggling under a desk at a dispatch office for hours. picked by nateebiinature 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get married at the weekend rather than go through with the ceremony later the same day... possibly because he was already married. picked by Wingnut 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share world |
A Japanese man who set fire to a hotel in a bid to buy himself time to chose whether to stay with his wife or marry his girlfriend was sentenced to five years jail Thursday. picked by topofall 9 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
A fire truck responding to a house fire on Olive Street in Elyria early this morning lost its rear axle and gas tank on Broad Street near East Bridge . 7 comments edit related share plime.comThe Firefighters on the truck were all able to escape without injury. picked by TraumaMamma 2 years ago |
I guess when you're a firefighter in a small town you have to start your own fires. picked by civicracer18c1 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
One of the victims of Monday's fatal Metro crash has been getting hate-filled phone calls from people questioning whether she and her family are legal immigrants. picked by suebe 5 months ago 7 comments edit related share world |
A woman in Plymouth, Britain, has been having phone troubles since she changed her service provider and started getting calls meant for a sex line. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
A dumped girlfriend plagued her ex with more than 10,000 calls and text messages in 65 days, a British court has heard. Timothy Mortimore, 37, received the equivalent of one call or message every eight minutes. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 6 comments edit related share weird |
A Romanian man has been fined for making 6,442 profane phone calls to an emergency number, police said Thursday. 7 comments edit related share plime.comTm, any thoughts? picked by doggylives 2 years ago |
Oj talking about his new book on tv and gets prank called during question time. Don't think it was posted before but you know what to do if it has. picked by civicracer18c1 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Even in its native Argentina, the fire ant wins in head-to-head competition with other ant species more than three-quarters of the time. 1 comments edit related share scienceARS scientists have been studying how different ant species fare against the fire ant as part of an effort to learn more about the behavior of this pest—an invasive species in its non-native United States. picked by Bingo 5 months ago |