Word: pranking
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...days later, the kidnappers said they had made contact with Waddah's family. But Haseeba and her other sons, believing him to be dead, had already held a wake for him. Now they refused to believe that he was alive, rejecting the kidnappers' ransom demand as either a terrible prank or an opportunist's attempt to capitalize on their loss. "They are not going to pay," the interrogator told Waddah. "We're not sure what to do with you." Later that day, Waddah was taken to the interrogation room--his first visit in nearly a week. He was hooded again...
...Rapture” is so bizarre as to cast doubt on its merit as art. The plush red cow reclining on a stool—udders erect and yarn pubic hair apparent—could easily have been imagined as part of some sort of senior prank...
Within an hour Grisham had placed calls to his agent, to his publisher and to Annette Hudson and Renee Simmons, Williamson's sisters, who at first assumed it was a prank call. They realized he was serious when he got them a lawyer and bought the exclusive rights to their brother's story...
...Harold Bloom, Twyla Tharp, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, and former Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould. Because the winners are chosen from nominations, not applications, the professors were taken by complete surprise. “I couldn’t believe it, I thought it was a prank caller,” Eggan told the Associated Press (AP). Eggan, whose stem cell cloning research is controversial among pro-life activists, said that the grant gave his work a needed boost of confidence. “This is a field that has been much discussed. Its legitimacy, its importance...
...Prank Calls Tuesday, July 18, 3:33 p.m.: An officer was dispatched to take a report of an individual receiving harassing phone calls...