Lex Ferenda

A silly bit of Web audio based on a phone prank (audio here, YouTube version here, although still audio. This reduces me (and others) to helpless laughter. I have resolved to use “Meteorite Hit The Line” as the title of my next essay, if at all possible. Anyway, the Irish Times published a little story on it today, although tragically they didn’t mention the punchline, just some po-faced worrying:

A Garda superintendent in Co Mayo has issued a warning to phone pranksters following an incident in which the communication rooms in two of the main Garda stations in the county were linked up via mobile phone and the subsequent conversations posted on the internet.

The practical jokers rang the station in Westport on one mobile phone. Then a second mobile was used to ring the communications room in Castlebar. The phones were then held together and the conversation recorded.

The brief ensuing conversation between two puzzled Garda officers has been downloaded from the internet on a number of radio stations.

Hope you enjoyed all that. If you’re in the mood for a little more timewasting, this should do the trick.

Update: Blogorrah points towards a great animation to go with the audio. Watch out for that meteorite!