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People Are Understandably Distressed About This Diabolical Airport Power Outlet Prank
Time (nearly dead) ^ | 8/9/2018 | MEGAN MCCLUSKEY

Posted on 08/10/2018 8:30:20 PM PDT by RightGeek

Basically anyone who has ever been to an airport knows that finding an open power outlet can be one of the most stress-inducing aspects of flying. So it should come as no surprise that people are freaking out over this power outlet sticker prank.

Thanks to one beleaguered traveler’s commitment to exposing this diabolical trick to the world, a photo of one of the fake sockets has gone viral.

“Whoever put up this fake sticker of an open outlet at the airport, you are now my enemy for life,” Twitter user Brandon Ewing captioned a photoset of himself discovering the ruse.

Of course, Ewing hasn’t been the only one to fall for this prank. Several others have also recently shared their experience with fake airport outlets.

“Why!!!! It looks so real!! Why put a sticker of an outlet on the wall in the terminal!!” questioned another victim. “So triggered.”


(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cellphones; homeless; pranks; vagrancy
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To: RightGeek

Easy. Put outlets around airports with like small vending machines with a two dollar fee for a 10 minute charge...


21 posted on 08/10/2018 9:23:27 PM PDT by GOPJ ( New York Times: Printed by liberal elitists for the benefit of liberal elitists ONLY.)
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To: RightGeek
this diabolical trick

Diabolical? I was expecting something like squirting super glue into the outlets so that charging plugs could never be removed or wiring a 120 V outlet into a 240 V circuit. But a sticker? Diabolical?

22 posted on 08/10/2018 9:33:13 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: grey_whiskers

Bringing up the rear but double checking. The title alone demanded it.


23 posted on 08/10/2018 9:35:07 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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To: GOPJ

If they end up doing this, I’m hunting you down.


24 posted on 08/10/2018 10:05:59 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: RightGeek

I want some of those Trump Hollywood Star stickers to distribute. Now that’s a triggering item.


25 posted on 08/10/2018 10:09:12 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: TheZMan

Sell electricity to a captive crowd? Come on, it’s a natural...


26 posted on 08/10/2018 10:17:40 PM PDT by GOPJ ( New York Times: Printed by liberal elitists for the benefit of liberal elitists ONLY.)
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To: RightGeek

Used to glue down quarters to the sidewalk in front of the hardware store where I worked in the 80’s. :-)


27 posted on 08/10/2018 10:28:22 PM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: RightGeek

I wany one fot my bald spot!


28 posted on 08/10/2018 10:36:19 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a doctor and I won't touch that thing)
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To: broken_clock
ROTFLMAO!!!

Beep Beep!!

29 posted on 08/10/2018 10:41:09 PM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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To: abigkahuna
My first suspects would be the commercial pay charging sites scattered through most busy airports
30 posted on 08/10/2018 10:52:53 PM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: broken_clock

From Brazil:

http://g1.globo.com/bahia/noticia/2015/12/para-evitar-acidente-prefeitura-apaga-desenho-de-tunel-em-3d-feito-em-rua.html

The URL translates to “to-avoid-accident-city-hall-drain-of-tunnel-in-3d-made-in-the-street”. The article claims the tunnel mural was painted over before anyone drove into it.


31 posted on 08/10/2018 11:04:09 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Probably true since the wall the tunnel is painted on has a bumped out /flared base- makes the roadrunner look like it is leaning inward, but it also means that there’s no way that particular spot on the car could have been damaged if the car had been driven into the wall because the flared base would have prevented that part of the hood and headlight on the car from even making contact. The damage would have been to a lower part of the car, like the bumper.

But a funny set of pics even so.


32 posted on 08/10/2018 11:24:54 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I use mine constantly here at home.


33 posted on 08/10/2018 11:28:57 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Blue House Sue

Ha!! Winner.


34 posted on 08/11/2018 1:29:18 AM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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To: Revel

Which is also a practical joke


35 posted on 08/11/2018 2:13:51 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: DigitalVideoDude

My little sister would superglue a dime to the sidewalk below her fourth-floor apartment, then drop water balloons on people who tried to pick up the dime.


36 posted on 08/11/2018 3:59:10 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Blue House Sue
I hope no one paints a tunnel entrance on a wall.

Only keeps coyotes out - roadrunners are allowed to pass....

37 posted on 08/11/2018 4:09:05 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: Blue House Sue

Damn that’s funny, a real life Wile E. Coyote scenario.


38 posted on 08/11/2018 5:14:34 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: RightGeek

Hysterical! Never happens in the Executive Lounges though.


39 posted on 08/11/2018 7:08:29 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: RightGeek

I stayed at a rustic scout camp. Someone went to the trouble of installing a light switch and a light fixture in the outhouse.

I’ll never admit to having done it


40 posted on 08/11/2018 7:34:50 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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