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“Outing An Online Outlaw
A TSG investigation unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone call criminality

AUGUST 4–At 4:15 AM on a recent Tuesday, on a quiet, darkened street in Windsor, Ontario, a man was wrapping up another long day tormenting and terrorizing strangers on the telephone. Working from a sparsely furnished two-bedroom apartment in a ramshackle building a block from the Detroit River, the man, nicknamed “Dex”, heads a network of so-called pranksters who have spent more than a year engaged in an orgy of criminal activity–vandalism, threats, harassment, impersonation, hacking, and other assorted felonies and misdemeanors–targeting U.S. businesses and residents.
Coalescing in an online chat room, members of the group, known as Pranknet, use the telephone to carry out cruel and outrageous hoaxes, which they broadcast live around-the-clock on the Internet. Masquerading as hotel employees, emergency service workers, and representatives of fire alarm companies, “Dex” and his cohorts have successfully prodded unwitting victims to destroy hotel rooms and lobbies, set off sprinkler systems, activate fire alarms, and damage assorted fast food restaurants.
But while Pranknet’s hoaxes have caused millions of dollars in damages, it is the group’s efforts to degrade and frighten targets that makes it even more odious. For example, a bizarre July 20 prank ended with a hotel worker actually sipping from a urine sample provided by a guest at a Homewood Suites in Kentucky. Additionally, at least twice this year, fast food workers–fearing that they would suffer burns after being doused by chemicals from a fire suppression system–stripped off their clothes on the sidewalk outside their respective restaurants.

They’re still appearing intermittently on the banner at the top of the K&JO page, for example in the early hours of this morning.

Optus have pulled. I’ll eat my words.

Nice work – now all we have to do is devout a little more time to getting the sponsors to avoid Austereo, and go spend some dollars on community radio. Ha – like that is ever likely to happen, weven with FBi Radio…

a) Underbelly glorifies gangland / criminal behaviour. Therefore boycott the network
b) Channel Ten air Californication – whilst it is only one show, the fact that the network shows it whilst maintaining it runs family shows. How can a network state that they have family shows and ‘adult’ shows.
c) Boycott ralph and Zoo and similar magazines as they portray women as sex objects
d) Merrick & Rosso, whilst funny on air, their standup comedy is quite in your face. Therefore boycott DMG radio

I know i might sound like a naff person, but we really need to be careful about taking the high ground on some subjects and not on others!!!

Yes K&J are idiots and said some dumb things, but they didn’t glass anyone! And further more if the segment was so offensive, why didn’t people complain about it when it first started. Blind Freddy could see that something like this could potentially happen.

Also, if you really want to split hairs, I would say that the run sheet is part of the planning process but not the whole thing. There are many things in the planning process that aren’t on the run sheet. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be on the run sheet to check the questions but it still should be a part of the process.

Your arguement is confused. Of course all of the people involved are responsible, I never said anything to the contrary. What I said is that this situation was very much preventable and that this question should have been weeded out as part of the planning process. Of course it wasn’t scripted but it was PLANNED. That woman had pre-prepared questions. Those questions should have been reveiwed and that one taken out along with any other dangerous or highly inappropriate questions. I’m not talking an hour-long review, all it would take is someone taking five minutes to run their eye over the questions to prevent disasters.

Obviously they had no idea this girl was a victim of rape and the presenters did not expect this answer BUT the question should never have been asked in the first place and allowing it is what got them and their whole team into the hot water they currently find themselves.