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Jumbled Numbers Sends FL 'KidCare' Callers To Sex Line
Amber van Natten | December 4, 2009, 3:46PM
Florida Governor Charlie Crist (R)
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The Palm Beach Post reports that because of a misprint on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's webiste, Florida parents trying to call his KidCare hotline number instead dialed a phone sex hotline advertising "hot, horny girls."
The Palm Beach Post, which broke the sex-line story and posted a recording of what KidCare hotline callers were treated to, reported that the governor's office has since fixed the embarrassing gaffe.
Coincidentally, the Post is also reporting that this same sex hotline number has worked its way accidentally into several government and public assistance info line searches. Callers inquiring about water quality in West Palm Beach, Medicare in Pittsburgh, FasTrack driving passes in San Francisco, and sex offenders in Virginia, all heard the same thing:
"Hey there, sexy guy. Welcome to an exciting new way to go live, one on one, with hot, horny girls waiting right now to talk to you!"
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CityGuy
December 4, 2009 3:54 PM
What was that number again???
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jfields
December 4, 2009 4:09 PM
Perhaps if Crist did have access to more hot, horny girls, it would relieve the buildup of whatever alien chemical is causing him to be Day-Glo orange.
Attempt 2: Stop that tie! It's making that man...orange!
Attempt 3: Perhaps Charlie should form a new Republican performance art troupe, called Orange Man Group.
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daytime77
December 4, 2009 4:26 PM
Gotta cut him some slack on this.. the business I am in requires us to issue toll-free numbers occasionally and the sheer prevalence of all kinds of sex phone lines increases DRAMATICALLY the odds that if you have a typo in your # - it's gonna go to something indecent. It's unfortunate, but this happens to well meaning people all the time. I would like to see some stats on tool-free sex numbers compared to other toll-free numbers, I think it would illustrate the point.
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SqueakyRat
December 4, 2009 5:31 PM in reply to daytime77
Mmmmm, tool-free sex numbers . . .
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drv
December 4, 2009 4:37 PM
daytime, do you seriously mean you don't or can't check the numbers before you publish them? How hard is that?
Same question for Crist. How hard is to make sure you've got the right number? Forget whether there's a risk of putting up a sex line number. If they're going to run the program, why not make sure calls can get to it?
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DKDC
December 4, 2009 4:49 PM
Give Crist a break - he obviously didn't do it on purpose. If he had, the number would've connected callers with hot, horny boys.
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Kuyleh
December 4, 2009 5:02 PM
I misdialed once trying to call Hewlett Packard about my former father-in-law's computer and got a sex line. Led to a really awkward conversation when he got the phone bill.
On topic, how hard is it to double check a phone number? If it's just you, then it's not a big deal if you make a mistake. But letting parents calling a child info line get a verbal porn office?
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bluestatedon
December 6, 2009 8:07 AM
I think Obama's staff should double-check to make sure they've got the correct hot line number to Moscow.
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Tosh
May 16, 2010 11:12 PM
Perhaps if Crist did have access to more hot, horny girls, it would relieve the buildup of whatever alien chemical is causing him to be Day-Glo orange.
Attempt 2: Stop that tie! It's making that man...orange!
Attempt 3: Perhaps Charlie should form a new Republican performance art troupe, called Orange Man Group.
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