The Credit Card Prank Ii
DOOManiac
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
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If you've been on the Internet for more than 10 minutes surely you've seen <a href='http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/' target='_blank'>The Credit Card Prank</a>. As an experiment, the author decides to start signing all his credit card transactions with obviously fake names, such as Mickey Mouse. Nobody ever notices, yada yada yada.
Flash forward to now. The author is at it again, and this time he's drawing pictures and using those electronic signature things. And still nobody checks his signature.
Really quite sad actually.
Anyways, <a href='http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/' target='_blank'>read up</a>.
Flash forward to now. The author is at it again, and this time he's drawing pictures and using those electronic signature things. And still nobody checks his signature.
Really quite sad actually.
Anyways, <a href='http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/' target='_blank'>read up</a>.
Comments
Was.
Beautiful.
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"I'd like all of them," I said without hesitation.
The guy almost crapped his pants. "Do you have a truck to carry them home?" he asked.
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I giggled like a schoolgirl my entire way through.
GG :-)
I've also learnt not to check bags after one person took their papers out so I could see inside and threw them at me : (
And I was so expecting Doom to say, "and my boss tried this and he confirms it works! Isn't he the greatest!"
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yup <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And yes, I actualy ask to see ID if they sign that or if they don't sign the card (hey, RS says we have to <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
That's what always put me in a quandry - the card doesn't say "If not signed, ask for identification" it says "not valid without signature". I asked them for their ID whenever I saw they didn't have a signature: some would get mad, some said that was their intention.
Still, far better to just sign the card; the number is what's most important, not the signature.
Win.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The people behind me in line were not amused, giving me the kind of looks normally reserved for elderly immigrants trying to pay for their groceries in Italian lira. The woman behind me, a good-looking professional in her 30's who was buying a granola bar and a bottle of water, stepped forward to see what I was drawing. "Oh my God," she said, rolling her eyes disgustedly.
"Apparently you're not a lover of the arts," I said, which made no sense.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Even more win.
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I check Picture I.D. with Credit Cards. That is all. They get pissy about signatures, and some of them even right "See I.D." on the back of their credit card, which makes perfect sense since faking a face just to use a stolen card is simply <i>not</i> done.
Obviously you've never seen <i>Payback</i> staring Mel Gibson in the manliest role hes ever played (not saying a whole lot I know, just watch it).
This guy is my hero!
[EDIT:] The turnpike prank is gold. <b>gold</b>.
"This time, instead of throwing in $1.00, I decided to tape two pictures of rap superstar 50 Cent, because that adds up to a dollar"
" In olden days, one could directly barter goods and services without the aid of money. So I bought a couple of oranges from a local convenience store, which cost me about a dollar.
In my next run through the Mass Pike toll booths, I threw in the oranges.
They sat in the bucket, where I assume they remained until a Fruit Collection Officer came by to pick them up. I'm sure he enjoyed their plump, juicy wedges -- after he removed the thick, encrusted peels that had been defiled by thousands of nasty-**** coins."
AHAHAHAH
I politely pointed out if he was referring to the cashier he should have put a comma after ID, and that could be taken for harrasment and he could have a nice fine appointed to him. (he crossed it out after the transaction.)
GG attempts at insults.
<i>Man</i>. those were fun.
-now that's pretty hilarious right there.
However, y'all should read the <a href='http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=38' target='_blank'>Improv Everywhere Chekov Prank</a>. It's long but worth it.
That viagra prank is the best!
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->AM: OK, let's see. [Pause] It looks like it was denied because the doctor couldn't find the medical necessity, and probably because of all the excess medications you're taking.
JH: Such as?
AM: Ah ... you do smoke marijuana?
JH: Only in the shower.
AM: Prednisone, Azmacort, Alupent ... do you have asthma?
JH: Only since I started smoking marijuana.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<img src='http://www.zug.com/daily/journal/graphics/070704_pp01.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->JH: Just one more thing. I noticed one other side effect, which is that my **** has started to talk.
HM: [Ignoring me] Let me give you the fax number.
JH: It started out just kind of grunting, you know, like a caveman. Unh unh. But then it gradually got more refined.
HM: The number is 480-947...
JH: Now it reads Goethe to me.
HM: ...4466.
JH: Sometimes it tells me to kill the President, but mostly it just reads great literature.
HM: Fax that number for a refund.
JH: Here, let me put the phone down my pants, and you can hear.
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<img src='http://www.zug.com/daily/journal/graphics/070704_pp01.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->JH: Just one more thing. I noticed one other side effect, which is that my **** has started to talk.
HM: [Ignoring me] Let me give you the fax number.
JH: It started out just kind of grunting, you know, like a caveman. Unh unh. But then it gradually got more refined.
HM: The number is 480-947...
JH: Now it reads Goethe to me.
HM: ...4466.
JH: Sometimes it tells me to kill the President, but mostly it just reads great literature.
HM: Fax that number for a refund.
JH: Here, let me put the phone down my pants, and you can hear.
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The site is down, but that is possibly the funniest thing i've ever read.
pure gold
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Ppppowerbook prank? Cause if so, he nearly rewrote it and put it up on his site in honor of the great prank. It was all done by MyNameIsJeff (the SA goon in question), and some other goons who he asked for help of course. John Hargrave just compiled it and typed it up. Still, a great prank.