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Hotline for Mr. Don Key
Date: April Fool's Day, 2009
Categories: Animals, United States, 2009, Telephone Pranks, Zoo Prank
Categories: Animals, United States, 2009, Telephone Pranks, Zoo Prank
Anticipating the annual flood of prank calls on April 1st, the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines set up four hotlines that pranksters were invited to use. The hotlines were for "Mr. Albert Ross," "Mr. C. Lyon," "Ms. Anna Conda," and "Mr. Don Key." Each hotline played a prerecorded message to let callers know they'd been fooled.
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