April Fool's Day - Post Your Best Prank

About 20 years ago, while living in Vancouver, I used to listen to 99.3 Fox. On the 1st in the morning, they periodically played some of the songs twice in a row, and then carried on like nothing happened. Of course, around 9AM, the DJs played some of the messages that were left at the station by listeners who were trying to let them know something was wrong. There were some funny calls, and the guys laughed at how they fooled everyone.

I was doing some graphic design at the time, so I fired up my 386, opened CorelDraw2.0, and created a fake CRTC logo (for American guys and gals, this is the governing board that regulates content and crap), typed up a letter to the station manager about how the playing of the same songs in the same hour contravened some sub-section of some act. Then fired up the 2400baud fax/modem and sent it out.

About half an hour later, the phone rings, and it's one of Djs calling. He is laughing, and says they both got called into the station managers office for a chewin out, and after a couple of minutes, figured out they got owned.

Still got that letter on some 5.25" floppy disk somewhere.. just gotta find a drive to see if it still opens lol..

Grant