When it comes to Apple, unfounded rumors abound, pushed by pranksters and the ill-informed alike.
In October, pranksters draped a team scarf around the statue's neck during local car races.
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As the UK tabloid the Daily Mirror put it on its front-page Saturday, 'Pranksters Face World Fury.
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Within hours, talk circulated on Twitter that he was a member of the Yes Men, a collective of pranksters.
The medical pranksters have been suspended and will face a formal disciplinary hearing.
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The company responded within 24 hours with a statement on its Web site telling consumers it knew about the video and had found the pranksters.
The serious, often diffident student was a prime target for pranksters.
The pranksters went to great lengths to make the award believable.
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But, like John Belushi and the other pranksters from Animal House, the creatures of Wall Street, no matter how awful their actions, continue to roam free.
Supporters of the nebulous band of hackers and pranksters were tricking oblivious web surfers into clicking on links that automatically joined them into their attack.
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In 2001 Linux pranksters raced pigeons against a 40-gigabytes-per-second fiber line to test a concept a puckish American scientist first coined a decade earlier:CPIP--Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol.
Some of those downloads have been fairly innocent ones, done by curious reporters or pranksters looking to cause a ruckus at the local Starbucks.
This was the nebulous community of hackers, activists and pranksters that had been evolving for the last six years or more, united in carrying out anonymous online attacks.
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On the new 200 Million Thousand, Black Lips' members appear to take themselves a bit more seriously, while still maintaining their reputation as lovable pranksters obsessed with bodily fluids.
Anonymous is more of a nebulous network of hacktivists and online pranksters than an organization, so word of where collective action is going tends to come in small, cacophonous waves.
Those pranksters wanted to make a similar point as Koot, that having our information out there unguarded by its holders opens us up to identity theft and targeted attacks.
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Police swarmed her northern New Jersey home after pranksters placed a 911 call through a computer that cloned her number and said a man had killed four people and was holding another hostage in her house.
Famous for an annual wife-carrying competition, for regular success at the world air-guitar championship and record-breaking hurling of rubber boots and mobile phones, Finland can now claim another accolade: its citizens are reportedly the world's keenest pranksters.
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Today, two of the pranksters are academics.
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All four of the men, who were arrested in December 2010 and January 2011, were already on bail and banned from accessing Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks, a popular channel for communicating among supporters of Anonymous, a nebulous collective of web activists and pranksters.
The way that Carter left the Shah of Iran to flap in the breeze and eventually to be swept out of Iran by Khomeini and his band of not-so-merry fundamentalist pranksters hardly inspired confidence in the U.S. by the petro-wealthy of the Arab world.
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