Today's chuckle: SWBell Voice Mail

Fly-by-Night CC <[email protected]> writes:
>Here's an audio file that seems to be making the water cooler rounds:
>
><http://home.swbell.net/kf5tv/voicemail.mp3>
>
>I wasn't sure it was real until I got the link above to SW Bell - the
>other file I received was just sent as a file. It is pretty funny and I
>can picture it so clearly.

Home.swbell.net is where ISP customers can host their own personal
webpages. This page is hosted by user 'kf5tv'. In now way is this
a product of swbell
..

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:46:57 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Fly-by-Night CC <[email protected]> writes:
> >Here's an audio file that seems to be making the water cooler rounds:
> >
> ><http://home.swbell.net/kf5tv/voicemail.mp3>
> >
> >I wasn't sure it was real until I got the link above to SW Bell - the
> >other file I received was just sent as a file. It is pretty funny and I
> >can picture it so clearly.
>
> Home.swbell.net is where ISP customers can host their own personal
> webpages. This page is hosted by user 'kf5tv'. In now way is this
> a product of swbell
> ..

Been around a long time:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/mishaps/beating.asp

--
Art Greenberg
artg AT eclipse DOT net

In article <[email protected]>,
Art Greenberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Been around a long time:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/autos/mishaps/beating.asp

But don't leave folks with the impression that because it's on Snopes
that it's a fake:

> As to the questions of whether the account given above is an accurate
> explanation of the origins of this audio clip, and whether the traffic
> incident described actually took place, we have to leave them as
> "Undetermined" for now. A inquiry posed to the corporate offices of Jack in
> the Box restaurants produced the following response:
> Thank you for your inquiry. The message that has been in circulation is an
> actual voice mail message. The incident occurred 5-6 years ago in Texas. I'm
> not sure how the recording got outside the company or if the employee still
> works for Jack in the Box, but the recording periodically re-surfaces on the
> radio and the internet.
> Even if this explanation is accurate (i.e., the clip originated as a message
> left on a Jack in the Box employee's voicemail), it doesn't preclude the
> possibility that the accident described never took place, and the recording
> was just a prank one employee pulled on a co-worker.
>
> Since this clip surfaced on the Internet in early 2005, several radio
> programs have aired interviews with persons claiming to have some involvement
> with this audio clip. On 4 February 2005, the nationally syndicated Coast to
> Coast AM show put through a caller who maintained he was the person who had
> been beaten by the women as described in the purported voicemail message. In
> late February, several stations broadcast interviews with a man named Michael
> Childs, who said that he was the one who left the voicemail message, that the
> clip was genuine, and that the accident described took place about six years
> ago in Athens, Texas, while he was working as a construction manager for Jack
> in the Box. Although Mr. Childs' voice certainly sounds very much like the
> one in the recording, we still can't rule out the possibility that this clip
> was a prank rather than a live description of real events.
>
--
Owen Lowe
The Fly-by-Night Copper Company
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