Guest Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye Posted June 19, 2003 Report Posted June 19, 2003 U.S. National - AFP Castro apparently falls victim to Miami radio prank Wed Jun 18, 6:23 PM ET Add U.S. National - AFP to My Yahoo! MIAMI (AFP) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro (news - web sites) apparently fell victim to a prank by a Miami radio station, and used crude expletives against Miami talk show hosts who led him to believe he was on the phone with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez. AFP/File Photo The recording of the conversation was repeatedly aired since Tuesday by the Spanish-language radio station El Zol 95.7, which had already played a similar prank on Chavez in January, pretending Castro was on the line. The make-believe Chavez sought help from Castro in tracking down a suitcase containing secret documents he said he lost during the leaders' recent trip to Argentina. Eventually, a man posing as a Chavez aide asked Castro: "Do you agree with the shit on the island, murderer?" and added, "You fell for it ... the whole of Miami is listening to you, Fidel Castro." "What did I fall for, you shit," the irate Cuban leader answered, adding further crude expletives, including references to the anatomy of the host's mother. "He used very obscene words the president of a country should never use," said the radio host Joe Ferrero said later. Castro eventually hung up, ending the 25-minute conversation. The radio station used the same technique it had employed for the Castro imitation in January, piecing together fragments from Chavez speeches. Miami is home to close to 700,000 Cuban exiles and Cuban-Americans, many of whom staunchly oppose Castro's communist government. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...nk_030618222322
Agent_Bond34 Posted June 19, 2003 Report Posted June 19, 2003 hahahah That is gold. Pretty funny when you're the president of a communist country, and you fall for pranks like that.
Guest kkktookmybabyaway Posted June 19, 2003 Report Posted June 19, 2003 That's great. Although I'm sure Danny Glover will be upset Castro was made fun of. PS: They have phones in Cuba?...
Guest Eagan469 Posted June 19, 2003 Report Posted June 19, 2003 a shock-jock in New York City did the same thing to Queen Elizabeth a few years back here's some more pranks done using soundboards: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/morepranks.shtml
Guest jimmy no nose Posted June 19, 2003 Report Posted June 19, 2003 That's crazy that you can so easily get through to leaders of countries like that. That's funny that they did it to both Castro and Chavez using the other person's sound clips. On that link that was just posted to soundboard prank calls the Office Space one is awesome.
Guest Eagan469 Posted June 19, 2003 Report Posted June 19, 2003 yeah, be sure to check out the Jack Nicholson call too
Guest evenflowDDT Posted June 19, 2003 Report Posted June 19, 2003 How the hell did they get Castro's phone #?
Guest Choken One Posted June 19, 2003 Report Posted June 19, 2003 It's sad to think those guys could get in contact directly to Bin Laden if they wanted to and our govenrment cant get within 100 miles of the guy...
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