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How dumb can this woman be????

glenn beck

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a...009/0609092prank1.html

JUNE 9--A telephone prankster posing as a sprinkler company employee caused havoc Saturday morning at an Arkansas Holiday Inn when he convinced an employee to set off the hotel's fire alarm, smash windows, shut down electricity, and break a sprinkler head that flooded the building lobby. The bizarre incident is detailed in a report prepared by the Conway Police Department, which, as seen below, photographed the aftermath of the June 6 incident. According to police, Holiday Inn employee Christina Bergmann was at the front desk early Saturday when a male caller "identified himself as an employee of Grennel Fire Sprinkler service." The man told Bergmann that there was a problem with the hotel's fire sprinklers and that she "needed to pull the fire alarm to reset them," cops reported. "Bergmann proceeded to pull the fire alarm at this point, causing the audible alarm." Bergmann, aided by a hotel guest, would subsequently follow a series of directions from the caller that would result in about $50,000 in damages to the hotel's windows, carpets and electrical system. Hotel guests, who were evacuated during the incident, were allowed back into the Holiday Inn after police and fire officials determined that the caller was an imposter. Since a similar prank call was made to a Holiday Inn in Little Rock, Conway cops alerted fellow Arkansas law enforcement officials that "more of these calls could be coming in," according to the police report. Rusty Brown, the Holiday Inn guest who helped Bergmann follow the prankster's instructions, told TSG he was "an innocent bystander and got involved in domestic terrorism." Bown, 36, remarked that there was "absolute panic in that hotel," adding that, "all I did was make it worse. I'm not proud of breaking windows. It is very disheartening


I can understand maybe pulling the fire alarm, but the other stuff, does the hotel have to be collapsing in order to throw a red flag?
 
Originally posted by: SonnyDaze
It was an inside job. She just needed to vent a little on her place of employment. 🙂

Well there was another idiot that joined in and helped. First she was dumb enough to believe it then this person just freaked out and made it even worse.

"Rusty Brown, the Holiday Inn guest who helped Bergmann follow the prankster's instructions, told TSG he was "an innocent bystander and got involved in domestic terrorism." Bown, 36, remarked that there was "absolute panic in that hotel," adding that, "all I did was make it worse. I'm not proud of breaking windows. It is very disheartening"
 
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Originally posted by: SonnyDaze
It was an inside job. She just needed to vent a little on her place of employment. 🙂

Well there was another idiot that joined in and helped. First she was dumb enough to believe it then this person just freaked out and made it even worse.

"Rusty Brown, the Holiday Inn guest who helped Bergmann follow the prankster's instructions, told TSG he was "an innocent bystander and got involved in domestic terrorism." Bown, 36, remarked that there was "absolute panic in that hotel," adding that, "all I did was make it worse. I'm not proud of breaking windows. It is very disheartening"

What makes it even better is that if you read the report, it says that Brown identified himself to Bergmann as an "incident commander".

LOL!
 
Reminds me of the McDonalds strip search story with the "police officer" on the phone telling her to strip among other inane things. She got 6.1 million from being a complete moron by "going with it because I had no reason to believe it was not a police officer on the phone telling me to do these things".

I can understand her thinking that it may be real and pulling the alarm may reset it. She's a hotel employee, she has no idea about sprinkler systems.
But the rest of it? You'd really have to be a gullible idiot.
And Christina, if you're reading this don't bother looking up the word "gullible" in the dictionary, it isn't there. Promise.
 
Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Reminds me of the McDonalds strip search story with the "police officer" on the phone telling her to strip among other inane things. She got 6.1 million from being a complete moron by "going with it because I had no reason to believe it was not a police officer on the phone telling me to do these things".

I can understand her thinking that it may be real and pulling the alarm may reset it. She's a hotel employee, she has no idea about sprinkler systems.
But the rest of it? You'd really have to be a gullible idiot.
And Christina, if you're reading this don't bother looking up the word "gullible" in the dictionary, it isn't there. Promise.

I remember seeing that and hearing about how humans are psychologically wired to allow things like that to happen.

I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. I am not that stupid. Maybe other people are psychologically wired to be complete imbeciles.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if this would have been some of you above had you not grown up educated and with the internet.

I am sure many of you could easily be coerced to do things over the phone if threatened.
 
Originally posted by: ghostman

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Cliffs:

Not so very long ago a Syrian airline pilot was put on trial for rape by deception after allegedly tricking a teacher into permitting him to treat her medical condition by applying cream into her vagina using the end of his penis.
 
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I wouldn't be surprised if this would have been some of you above had you not grown up educated and with the internet.

I am sure many of you could easily be coerced to do things over the phone if threatened.

What ever you say, Rusty. :laugh:
 
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