Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Psychic Friends


Being the PR guy for a firm that builds space modules, you figure I get my share of crazy calls sometime. But this one toped them all.


It was a person claiming to be a psychic from Australia who wanted to warn us that aliens were coming and planning to drop pedophiles on the Beijing Olympics. She wondered if there’s anything we can do to stop it, and I assured her we’ll do the best we can.


You laugh now, but will you be laughing when Costas comes on Aug. 8 and says. “Before we go to the opening ceremony, some breaking news. Apparently, spaceships have appeared over Beijing and they’re dropping pedophiles.”

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't have left her with the "we'll do the best we can." I would have given her this:

"Ma'am. Thank you for the alert, but rest assured, you know how the FBI listens to everything, and they are well aware of the problem.

Our agency has formed a secret task force (that, you, as a psychic certainly already know about). We call it "Operation Pedophile Smackdown."

Keep this to yourself, but tell me... just what would we need to stop the alien pedophile menace? Pedophobes!

You can sleep soundly now knowing that, with the cooperation of NASA, we have millions of Pedophobes at the ready, with working parachutes, to guard against any pedophilic phoul play! But, word of caution: please keep a steady stock of tinfoil handy... just in case."