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Title: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: rbcp on January 11, 2009, 11:23:22 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgYI-qNVHc8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgYI-qNVHc8)

I really want to do more pay phone pranks before pay phones completely disappear.  Really, in another 5 years it might be impossible to find a pay phone in a suitable location that actually accepts incoming calls.  Post some idea for new pranks in this thread.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: rbcp on January 11, 2009, 11:31:20 AM
I think I should actually plant something for them to find so they'll think they really won $500.  And maybe make the phrase something really offensive that they won't want to say.  Or something that insults them. Like, "I'm a fat cow who has never exercised a day in her life!"  But get them really excited about winning.  Make them shout things, do dances, etc.  Maybe say, "I'll give you an extra $50 each time you scream I JUST WON $500 from KPLA as loud as you can."

Those pay phones I found in Corvallis (15 minutes from me) are perfect.  They're Qwest pay phones and they ring forever without stopping to give me a computer tone.  They also ring loudly.  And there's plenty of parking right in front of them, where I can place my camera.  I was thinking I should tell them that the message is on TOP of the phone booth and see what they'll do to try and climb on top.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: MIB on January 11, 2009, 02:27:46 PM
What are the numbers for these payphones? I need more numbers to prank call.

MIB
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: rbcp on January 11, 2009, 04:03:10 PM
The two I was calling at Richie's Market:
541-757-9389
541-757-9152

On the other side of Richie's Market, there's another entrance with another set of pay phones:
541-757-9163
541-757-9117

Who the hell knows why this tiny shopping center need 4 pay phones.  Nobody used them other than when they answered my calls.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: Zazen on January 11, 2009, 04:21:01 PM
I think I should actually plant something for them to find so they'll think they really won $500.

The funniest line in that video was "You just won.. shit all over your ear". So I think you should plant something that'll get crap all over them. You could smear stuff on the underside of a shopping cart handle, or flip a milkshake upsidedown on top of the payphone and tell them the note is underneath the cup.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: tully on January 11, 2009, 04:35:10 PM
get one of those exploding ink things like banks have and plant it next to the payphone hooked up to a remote detonation switch
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: Magus on January 11, 2009, 05:13:50 PM
Or wire a bomb to bottom of a shopping cart and tell them to push it into the nearest bank and demand all the money or you'll blow their head off.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: rbcp on January 11, 2009, 05:58:25 PM
Or wire a bomb to bottom of a shopping cart and tell them to push it into the nearest bank and demand all the money or you'll blow their head off.

THE WINNER!

Actually it would be funny to put Nutella on the phone and just say to the person who answered, "Guess what?  You're covered in brown gooey stuff!"  They'd probably flip out if they saw the camera in my car though.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: handl3r on January 11, 2009, 06:20:47 PM
ctrl-v
niceeeeeee! have you seen that game show in your head show? with joe rogan? you could do some things like that. raise the prize money, make crazier challenges like kiss a complete stranger. Say it’s a new canadian discovery channel show like cash cab called Payphone challenge or something, and that they are on hidden camera. you could give them like 5 minutes to find a cactus and they win $5000 dollars!
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: linear on January 11, 2009, 06:53:30 PM
why was this video brought to be by a porn site?
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: sabrebutt on January 11, 2009, 09:50:53 PM
why was this video brought to be by a porn site?

Aren't they all?
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: rbcp on January 11, 2009, 11:51:03 PM
why was this video brought to be by a porn site?

messedup.net used to be cool.  Heywood wrote original stuff on it and we used to to harass Curtis Lee Jones and Jason Heckathorn and the forums were fun.  It still belongs to Heywood, he just doesn't do much with it anymore.  It started out as his original content with lots of porn affiliate links on the site, then the porn slowly took over the entire site.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: CerealKiller on January 11, 2009, 11:58:41 PM
Where the fuck is that pet store at in Florissant? Looks like cross keys but i don't remember a payphone there. Also i think i know that chick. My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: rbcp on January 12, 2009, 12:09:57 AM
Where the fuck is that pet store at in Florissant? Looks like cross keys but i don't remember a payphone there. Also i think i know that chick. I am now laughing and it's out loud because what was said previously is so funny.

I don't think it was actually IN Florissant.  It might have been a little past there.  It was filmed in 2004, so that girl is a few years older now.  I always wondered about her shirt.  It said PECKER on the back.  What the hell was that?
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: Godot on January 12, 2009, 12:14:34 AM
A tip for those attending Shmoocom: the D.C. metrorail system still has quite a few payphones. I haven't gotten the chance to test if the accept incoming calls, but I intend to try it before Shmoocon. I'll let you know how it goes.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: nomadcowatbk on January 12, 2009, 05:01:24 AM
What are the numbers of those in Missouri (if they are still there)? Ellis Library and Memorial Union at Mizzou have payphones that will keep ringing in busy locations
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: kwantamphlux on November 03, 2009, 12:04:43 AM
Those pay phones I found in Corvallis (15 minutes from me) are perfect.

My grandparents live in Corvallis...
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: PHISH-PHREAK on November 03, 2009, 06:44:04 AM
Those pay phones I found in Corvallis (15 minutes from me) are perfect.

My grandparents live in Corvallis...

My grandparents live under Corvallis...
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: rbcp on November 03, 2009, 09:18:45 AM
Your mom lives in Corvallis.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: nomadcowatbk on February 06, 2011, 11:10:58 PM
The two I was calling at Richie's Market:
541-757-9389
541-757-9152

On the other side of Richie's Market, there's another entrance with another set of pay phones:
541-757-9163
541-757-9117

Who the hell knows why this tiny shopping center need 4 pay phones.  Nobody used them other than when they answered my calls.

all disconnected
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: rbcp on February 07, 2011, 07:09:33 AM
Last time I drove by there, they had removed 2 of the 4 pay phones.  Then I read an article in the paper that Richies was closing down last year, so the pay phones probably went away with the market.
Title: Re: Pay Phone Payout Pranks
Post by: nyphonejacks on February 07, 2011, 08:16:29 PM
The two I was calling at Richie's Market:
541-757-9389
541-757-9152

On the other side of Richie's Market, there's another entrance with another set of pay phones:
541-757-9163
541-757-9117

Who the hell knows why this tiny shopping center need 4 pay phones.  Nobody used them other than when they answered my calls.

all disconnected

may not necessarily be disconnected.... on my trainphones.blogspot.com blog there are many phones that i photographed and dialed the ANI number, then called the phone numbers that give a NIS recording when called.. not sure why... they just might not be accepting incoming calls...