Just listened to season 1 of Crank Yankers and the whole thing sounds scripted

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I remember there was a lot of press about how the comedians had to record the calls in Vegas because Nevada laws allowed one-party consent to record phonecalls. So I think the show was legit.

Correct. There were all sorts of legal rules. Like the person had to be soliciting business or cold calling and they had to initiate the call. Florentine or whoever could not call them back. They always had to be the caller. Each state has its own legal consent rules for recording people. New York was ultra strict hence why O&A would have to tell everyone they called immediately "you are live on a radio show".

The only exceptions were pranks to other radio or television shows. Like the birthday pranks with Uncle Paul or Connor Peterson. Or the various Captain Janks calls from Stern or the infamous "I see OJ" call. Those idiots aired those pranks themselves.

I think those calls were the Touch Tone Terrorist he would buy phone numbers that were a digit out from a delivery company and wait for the calls. If I recall correctly UPS tried going after him legally at one point.

Florentine and those guys would purchase a bunch of phone lines to a house. Wire up each phone to recording equipment. Then literally just field phone calls all day and night and try to turn them into pranks. Florentine said for the most violent calls like him pretending to kill someone or holding a woman hostage he'd get 911 calls from the telemarketers and police would come to his house. When he lived with Norton one time he did a prank call, they all left to get food, and when they came back police had trashed their entire house looking for the 'hostage'.

 

[Turk February]

Kerpal called my house and said my daughter come to his house and she kick his dog

 

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I live in Nevada and I'm not sure if everyone is stupid, inbred, high, drunk or all of the above. People just do some really nonsensical shit out here. I've lived all over and this place is just something else.

Someone on the Vegas subreddit once posted a video of some Galaxy Brain who tried to walk from one casino to another casino. Not a big deal right? But there's a freeway between them. So he made it about two seconds before he got turned into a red mist. And then he got hit again, and again, and again, and again.

By the end of the video, it just looked like something out of Smash TV.

You might read this and think "well that probably happens once a year."

It happens so much, there are iron fences all over the place, and I still see people running through traffic nearly every time I head down to the strip. See that green fence in the pic above? That wasn't there 20 years ago. They had to add it to keep people from doing dumb shit. In their defense, traffic on the strip is super slow, so people running across eight lanes of traffic is just annoying, not explosive. The freeway is just west of the Strip, and I assume the dude who got exploded was probably too drunk to realize he was running across an interstate highway, not the Las Vegas Strip.

Also, the reason that windows don't open in Vegas hotels is because people kept falling out of them. The city is a magnet for stupid people (I am a stupid person.)

Nice 10 lane high way in the middle of your casino stupid.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Florentine said for the most violent calls like him pretending to kill someone or holding a woman hostage he'd get 911 calls from the telemarketers and police would come to his house. When he lived with Norton one time he did a prank call, they all left to get food, and when they came back police had trashed their entire house looking for the 'hostage'.

He was pretending his friend Chuck was giving his girlfriend a home abortion. She was screaming and they were running the vacuum cleaner in the background.