Boys hack Taco Bell intercom and spout obscenities at customers

Two boys, 15 and 17, used a scanner to find the drive-through frequency, then tuned into the frequency using a modified radio. They sat in a nearby parking lot to pull off the prank -- spouting vulgarities at customers -- three or four times. (Sedalia Democrat)

Comments

[KDP]

I've seen video clips of this sort of thing. I think it's hilarious. It's something that's crossed my mind a few times.

"I want a burger with fries and a Coke."

"You're too ugly. We aren't going to serve you anything. Please leave now."

[G-Man]

HahaHaaHa! Now that's funny! I like their initiative. I'd give these kids a job before the guy wearing the sandwich board.

[sometimesilie]

And who says children are no longer creative. Kudos to them, that's simply fantastic.

"Wirt said he was able to find the teens after receiving a couple of tips called into the Police Department"

People who order drive through at the f^%ing Taco Hell should not be taking themselves so seriously that they cannot laugh at a prank like this. I can picture some 400-lb moo cow on the way home to teach her cats about Jesus as getting offended, but I would have lmao.

[elchampino]

yea i'm not gonna lie, i'm impressed with the little rodents

[JimmyVa]

This is hilarious!!! Way to go.

[Phranqlin]

Too funny! Next time, though, they need to use a longer-range radio.

[Bushie]

This is great. Give these kids a job...showing creativity and all, and all they did was mess with taco hell.

[nellagain]

Guys, guys, its not like this required a PhD in advanced nanotechnology to pull off. I have 10 year old nephew who could've done this (and did smoething similar with the baby monitor) It strikes me as a rather ordinary (and sort of dull) prank.

The obscenities were especially trite--show some real creativity kids, use verses from the Koran (and get yourself a *real* federal rap sheet) or Thomas deQuincy (Confessions of an English Opium Eater) or, here's a thought, THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION.

[someguy]

Hilarious....

[Sheila]

Good ideas, Nell, and how about the Gettsyburg Address or Washington's Farewell Address to take advantage of their February birthdays. The types of people who patronize Taco Bell wouldn't recognize the material, though.

[elchampino]

nellagain - Considering most teenage 'pranks' these days seem to consist of a) farting on thing; b) setting things on fire; and c) dropping things off a highway overpass; I think these two pseudo-hackers are about as creative as we're gonna get.

[Just Joe Today]

This is a decent prank, no one injured and Taco Bell gets people buzzing about their crappy food. Why in the world was one of them arrested?
Frank Zappa was so right...

[Just Joe Today]

This is a decent prank, no one injured and Taco Bell gets people buzzing about their crappy food. Why in the world was one of them arrested?
Frank Zappa was so right...

[Just Joe Today]

This is a decent prank, no one injured and Taco Bell gets people buzzing about their crappy food. Why in the world was one of them arrested?
Frank Zappa was so right...

[MidtownCoog]

Nellagain, start gellin.

Same goes for your 10 y/o wierdo.

[DAMNED OBAMA LOVING BIGOT]

THESE BOYS OUGHT TA BE PUNISHED BIG TIME!! THEY SHOULD NEVER HAVE ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO GET CAUGHT! DAMN IT, IF I COULD ONLY FIND OUT HOW TO DO THIS TYPE OF THING. DO I NEED A CB RADIO? HOW DO YOU MODIFY A BABY MONITOR TO DO THIS? OH, AND BY THE WAY, ITS TOXIC HELL NOT TACO HELL, BUDDY.

[Openeyed]

It sure beats shooting out windows with a BB gun!

[MONKEY JERK]

LIKE THAT WAS A MAJOR JOB TO HACK

[Lots42]

They swing this and all they can figure out to do is say swear words? How dissapointing. They could have done any number of things. Pretended to be Burger King. Insist that they are out of all Tacos and are now serving gum. Make random barnyard noises, then play a chainsaw clip. Ask if the customers wanted the food in pill form. All of these (and more) would have been much funnier then random swear words.

[RockyMtnMac]

This story made me laugh. No one was hurt. And I gotta agree with G-Man - I'd hire these two bfore the sandwich-board guy.
That being said, if this were my kid, he would be required to issue a public apology and be grounded for a week. The punishment should fit the crime and there is no way this prank deserves more than a week. I would also see if Taco Bell needed any work done for free while he was grounded. Other than that, I would also commend my kid for making me laugh, and see if maybe he could find a job since he has so much extra time on his hands.

[Mikey]

I have to laugh. High five to you, boys!

A buddy of mine and I did the same thing on the last day of high school one year. He brought in a CB radio. The teacher, a guy, was cool with that. We played around with the channel settings and found that we were in the school's intercom channel. Nothing vulgar, just funny stuff. "Teachers, this is your conscience speaking! Give everyone an "A". You must graduate everyone a year early!"

The staff were running around with crazy looks in their eyes, like the world was ending! Then the Teach came back in the room, and made a single hand motion at us for us to stop. We did, and he didn't tell a soul! Ha!

To this day we remain legends. I was the top ranking officer, president of the Phi Beta Bullshit Club. Remember when you could buy those rubber "BULLSHIT!" stamps ? Mwahahaha! We stamped hundreds of the lockers of our enemies! Several teachers wondered about the entries in the school annual after our names. Like mine: "President PBBC".

"Glory days. Well they'll pass you by! Glory days! In the wink of a young girl's eye."

[Mikey]

Speaking of dead parrots,

http://www.funnieststuff.net/viewmovie.php?id=1122

[RockyMtnMac]

We vaselined every doorknob, handle, toilet seat, and phone in the entire school. We also filled all the coffeepots with stale coke.
One of my relatives gathered the entire senior class to release 1,000's of golf balls in the school.
One of my relatives posed as the girls basketball recruiter for *fill in the university here* to get certain girls out of taking a test they weren't prepared for.
Never got caught.
Mikey, I would have joined your PBBC club in a heartbeat!

[cherie]

BRILLIANT!

[d'ep]

Aww geez Nell, Thomas Freaking deQuincy? I had almost put him behind me for good, but now you've ruined all my progress! Stupid stream of consciousness...Stupid opium eater...Stupid grad school...

[R]

Didn't Letterman do a stunt working at a Fast Food joint? I think I saw it on Youtube. It was funny. Trying to get people to pay for his lunch, telling them they were out of all sorts of things. I think it was a Taco Bell too...

[Sheila]

I saw that Letterman fast-food thing a few years ago, back when he was actually funny. I thought it was McDonald's, but he was hilarious.

I've overheard customers cuss out the window staff before, so I see this as just payback.

[Mikey]

RMM, I never got caught and neither did my junior officers, because we were shrewd and discreet. What gets me is how we never got turned in!

Now then...

You are now an official candidate for membership in the Phi Beta Bullshit Club Intl. Before you are inducted though, there are certain rites and ceremonies I must perform on you. ,'~)

Still want to be in?

[Charles Brobst]

Send them to college.
This took intelligence,
initiative,
creativity,
hard work,
and no real harm was done.

[RockyMtnMac]

Oh yeah Mikey.

Oh. Yeah.

[Mikey]

RMM, Now you just went and flustered me! You'll be receiving an orientation packette in the mail soon...

In the meantime, 'tis Ladies Night at the local upscale watering hole. And I have a thirst. As well as a hunger. 'Nighty night, Sweetie!

'Night All!

[outofsalt]

Hate to say this, but I think this was pretty clever. Alright, maybe not swearing at the customers - jokes or something else would've been funnier - but otherwise this was pretty good. Thanks!

[Jimmy]

Maybe now they can become consultants to the fast food industry to prevent other from employing the same advanced tactics to "hack" drive-thru systems.

[jp tm]

for more tomfoolery like this, go to www.phonelosers.com/radio/

all kinds of stuff like this!

[mike]

Why does it seem like you'd get in less trouble for actually working at Taco Bell? Work a day and get fired, good deal to me.

[Sam I Am]

Aw, I like Taco Bell. Why the hate? Besides, they have that Mt Dew Baja Blast that you can't get anywhere else.

[DWS]

good prank. I would have laughed if it had happened to me!

[mumto3boyz]

I laughed I admit it!!

I better not let MY demon spawn trying it thou....

[mumto3boyz]

I laughed I admit it!!

I better not let MY demon spawn trying it thou....

[Big Kahuna]

Props to those guys. Clever. Smart (cept getting caught). No harm, no foul.

Now taze 'em and send em to Guantanamo indefinitely.

[chris (no longer n cali)]

cactus?? check out phone losers of america phreaky shit...