Pranking Castro
by TChris
The days may be gone when kids call a store and ask if they have Prince Albert in a can, but the practice of making prank calls lives on, as evidenced by Bart Simpson and Comedy Central's Crank Yankers. These days, you have to be careful who you prank, lest you incur the wrath of the FCC.
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a $4,000 fine for a Miami radio station that got through by phone to Cuban President Fidel Castro in a crank call and broadcast the communist leader before rudely letting him in on the joke.
No word on whether the FCC intends to fine Castro, who undoubtedly violated broadcasting decency rules by "denouncing the callers with a stream of vulgarities."
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