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The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment
theodp writes "Having fooled major news outlets with a heartwarming-but-entirely-faked video of a pig rescuing a drowning goat, Nathan Fielder turned his attention to texting. CNET reports on the great Twitter 'text-your-parents-you're-a-drug-dealer' experiment, in which the Fielder called on his Twitter followers to text their moms and dads and (accidentally) reveal a drug deal. Fielder's tweet read: 'Experiment: text your parents "got 2 grams for $40" then right after "Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you." Then tweet pic of their response.' The reactions are various and, sometimes, hilarious."
... The FBI has dismantled a large network of drug dealers apparently led by a man named Nathan Fielder. Having failed to secure the drugs, the FBI has seized their computers instead to examine possible connections with other drug dealing groups.
Simple. iOS lusers are far more sheeplike and willing to follow stupid suggestions like this one.
Ah come on, what sort of a relationship do you have with your family if you can't play a little prank on them from time to time.
Perhaps the kind of relationship where one or more of the parties is under the care of a cardiologist.
I am not a crackpot.
"got 2 grams for $40" - the story is really about the US adopting the metric system
Think of the parents!
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