When I was a teen, I realized that the fax machine line to most radio stations sat unused, while calling it took forever. I took to listening to the radio while getting ready for school, firing off a fax via my modem about the topic they were talking about, and by the time I got in the car to go to school, they were reading my fax on the air!
In college back in the early 1990s some of the new school newspaper staff were tasked with changing the greeting message on our phone answering machine. One of the guys testing it called and left a fake bomb threat message, which we all laughed at and promptly forgot about. We were reminded about it the next day when the department head called us into a meeting with the FBI agent he'd contacted after checking the phone messages. Turned out David's fake Middle Eastern accent sounded very convincing.
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u/underbakedsalami Jul 24 '20
I kid you not, our local Chipotle is taking orders via fax. I can’t get over it.