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Xbox LIVE user pulls a nasty prank on Florida woman
Lydia Sung - Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | 11:56AM (PT) 0 Favourites (0)


Posts woman's number, offers to sell her daughter

Xbox LIVE user pulls a nasty prank on Florida woman Image 1

Christa Manos of Punta Gorda is more than upset over a recent prank someone pulled on her.

An Xbox LIVE subscriber apparently posted the woman's telephone number with the statement, "selling a child, will pay for shipping."  Following that prank post, 23-year-old Manos received countless phone calls from angry people across the United States, all outraged by the message.  Manos thought the calls themselves were a prank at first, but they wouldn't stop coming.

"By the 18th or 19th call, I knew something wasn't right," she said.

The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office later found the message on Xbox LIVE.  The case is active, and Sheriff's Office spokesman Bob Carpenter stated the individual responsible could face charges like criminal use of information.

"When I saw it, I wanted to hurt someone," Manos added, still furious someone would make such a joke about her and her 2-year-old daughter.  She also claims to have a pretty good idea of who the prankster is.

Source: Printed News

Section: Microsoft Consoles

  • 0 thumbs!
    Qwowner since Mar 2008 | Mar 11, 09
    So M$ will ban someone for posting their sexual orientation on their account, but hasn't done anything about this? That's just wrong.
  • 0 thumbs!
    sonytastic since Mar 2009 | Mar 11, 09
    hahahah wow wat a weird prank to pull
  • 0 thumbs!
    dvrocc since Dec 2002 | Mar 12, 09
    People are idiots when events like this happen, they don't think of what may or will happen in the long run but in time its goin to byte then in the behind again.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Byzantine since Apr 2008 | Mar 12, 09
    woot, i know what to do with my children now.
  • -1 thumbs!
    Xoatl since Sep 2006 | Mar 12, 09
    Wow, sounds like something I would do.

    Awesome trolling there.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Honor since Jan 2007 | Mar 13, 09
    quote Byzantine
    woot, i know what to do with my children now.
    lucky ill by them for $1 then ill sell them for $500 each he he he he he he (i have been using he he he he to often with my comments etc) but otherwise i wold not like to be her
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