[BC] It wasn't the President this time.

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

That brings back memories. A number of years ago, a former room mate 
worked for a traffic reporting company in Houston. It was brought to 
their attention that  a non subscribing station was airing traffic 
reports with nearly the same info they were gathering and airing. 
Standard practice then was for the chopper reporter to feed reports to 
subscribing stations. On a hunch, the reporter fed a fake report about 
an overturned truck on the 610 that had scattered 'monkey nails' all 
over the freeway. The offending station picked up the info and reported 
about the 'monkey nails'. The subscribing stations were in on the gag. 
The bonus was that  2 TV news crews  also showed up to film the scene. 
Busted!

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN
WBZQ1300 at verizon.net


Bill Croghan wrote:

>In Denver many years back, the News director and I used to play
>recorded dummy packet transmissions, over the news departments 2 way just to
>confuse the competition. 
>