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    Posted April 1, 2008 by
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    The Dalles, Oregon
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    Your April Fools' Day pranks

    Mom's addiction to Pogo prank

     

     

    My mother loves POGO.  Those of you who don't know, it's a site that lets you play games and awards tokens and badges for your accomplishments.

     

     

    You can then turn in those tokens at chances random prize drawings.

     

     

    My mother has collected millions and millions of tokens over the last several years of playing.  She enjoys playing on the site and just seeing how many tokens she can gather.  She has never turned them in, so her number is rather large.

     

     

    A few nights ago I layed the ground work for my prank.  I told her the goverment has been cracking down on gambling sites and taking them off-line.  She said she wasn't worried because POGO was just games and not really gambling.  I reminded her that she pays for the site and that "technically" it's gambling because of this and the fact you enter a lottery style drawing to win the big prize.

     

     

    This morning I setup a fake POGO page exclaiming how they are sorry, but due to the department of justice new regulations and the new wire act (I linked these sites on the site I created) pogo is now off-line.  I then changed her bookmark to the redirected page.

     

     

    What fun on April Fools.  My favorite holiday LOL.

     

     

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