RE: Hmmm.... Pranks, anyone?

["Tracy, Chris" <ctracy@whyn.com>]

Just two classic pranks I grabbed from AllAccess ..... these were really well thought out!

# 1

ABC Country KSCS/DALLAS morning show THE DORSEY GANG landed the perhaps the mother of APRIL FOOLS jokes in the big "D" this year. They planted the seed last week by sending out postcards to every media outlet in town complete with a web address www.dentonzoo.com announcing that the world's largest zoo was coming DENTON, TX a town just north of DALLAS.

Then on MONDAY morning (3/31), THE DORSEY GANG had live call-ins from the site of the soon-to-open zoo and even interviewed a media spokesperson from the zoo. By MONDAY afternoon the website had received over 3500 hits and over 500 calls had been made to the special phone number listed on the site, including several from government officials asking for details on the new attraction.


Today (4/1) KSCS started to receive planted phone calls about animals loose in the vicinity of the alleged zoo. At 7:45a the zoo's media spokesman called to report that the animals were indeed from the DENTON ZOO and escaped after a gate malfunction. At 8:30a, THE DORSEY GANG finally fessed up to their elaborate hoax, with the website revealing the DENTON ZOO was nothing more than a classic APRIL FOOLS joke. When all was said and done, three TV stations, five newspapers and a number of competing radio stations had called to request media credentials for the imaginary DENTON ZOO.

# 2

CLEAR CHANNEL RVPP JIM RICHARDS checks in with ALL ACCESS to tell us how Classic Rocker KGB/SAN DIEGO had US Congressman JIM CURRY on this morning with DAVE, SHELLY AND CHAINSAW. Congressman CURRY is from the fictitious 56TH DISTRICT in NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.

The Congressman was explaining how his bill had been recently passed in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The bill abolishes APRIL FOOLS DAY by eliminating 4/1 from all calendars beginning this year. Citizens should take back all manufactured goods that have a calendar in it or on it back to the place of purchase for a replacement that is "3-32 COMPLIANT".


Furthermore, all computers should be shut down at 9a as part of the anti-trust settlement that the Congressman successfully negotiated with MICROSOFT who was closing the internet for repairs for 30 minutes to send the patch to all computers linked to the internet.


The bill also calls for a minimum 5 years and $50,000 fine when a radio host perpetuates a hoax upon an unsuspecting public. APRIL FOOL'S!

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Hopper [mailto:hopperman@metrocast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:13 AM
To: Dan C.; bri@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: Hmmm.... Pranks, anyone?


Not a prank.....

BIG 101.5 Laconia has a weekly vinyl-only feature "Evil Jack's Wicked
Vinyl", Mondays at 4:30PM.   Rotating listeners bring in rare vinyl 33 1/3
and play 3-6 cuts. 

In honor of April Fool's Day we played Firesign Theatre's "The Further
Adventures of Nick Danger" (28:02)

Rick @ WLNH EUR BIG 101.5 EUR WEMJ, Laconia NH


> From: "Dan C." <dwcole@attbi.com>
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:51:10 -0500
> To: bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Hmmm....  Pranks, anyone?
> 
> At 05:22 AM 4/1/2003 -0800, Cooper Fox wrote:
>> So, were there any good pranks this morning?
> 
> 
> None in my building.  Management has the philosophy of you pull one you
> look for a new job...which I totally agree with.
> 
> 
> Dan Cole
> 
> WGAN 
> 
> 
>