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# prank call

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These radio presenters found the world's soundest lad through a random prank call
Need someone, anyone to give you a glowing job reference? This guy is your man.
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Sep 7th 2016, 8:21 AM
'We've all these class backs and they're just not firing': Andrew Trimble prank calls Paddy Jackson's dad
‘Of course we wouldn’t sign Dan Carter when we’ve got Paddy Jackson!’
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May 9th 2016, 6:28 PM
A kid pranked a police station and his parents made him write this brilliant apology letter
His prank call consisted of him saying “deez nuts.”
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Jun 2nd 2015, 9:35 AM
Man who prank called Cameron was 'off his face on booze and cocaine'
The man pretended to be the head of spy agency GCHQ.
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Jan 26th 2015, 3:58 PM
Arrested man orders pizza to police station as a prank, gets in even more trouble
The police weren’t very happy.
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Jul 20th 2014, 5:12 PM
Two Dominos pizza branches got prank-called and put on the same phone line
Here’s what happened.
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Jul 1st 2014, 3:30 PM
Is this a real NSFW prank call between two baffled Galway garda stations?
“You’re after pressing the wrong button now and you’re pretending you didn’t make a mistake.”
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Apr 19th 2014, 5:30 PM
Over 4,000 hoax calls made to ambulance service last year
Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony is calling for penalties to be put in place to hold the people making the calls to account.
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Aug 8th 2013, 1:16 PM
Simon Zebo asked Rob Penney to make him Munster captain
We can imagine Penney was chuffed to take the surprise phone call.
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Jul 10th 2013, 5:10 PM
And the 'Top Jock' award goes to... the Australian DJ in tragic Kate prank
Michael Christian and Mel Greig made the hoax call to the London hospital pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles.
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Jun 5th 2013, 11:18 AM
Family of royal hoax call nurse pay tribute after memorial mass
Jacintha Saldanha’s daughter said the family is “shattered” by the loss and the family home is like “an empty dwelling” without her mother.
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Dec 15th 2012, 12:52 PM
Australian radio station to give $500,000 to dead nurse's family
The radio station is giving all its profits until the end of the year to a fund for Jacintha Saldanha’s family.
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Dec 11th 2012, 11:01 AM
The Evening Fix...now with added heartbreaking dog rescue stories
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Dec 7th 2012, 7:50 PM
Colorado gunman named as 24-year-old local man - update
The gunman killed 12 people and wounded 38 at the Century 16 cinema in Aurora during a Batman screening.
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Jul 20th 2012, 12:55 PM