Category: News and Views
Road-Construction Callers Get Sex Line
Mar 23, 8:01 PM (ET)
By JOHN O'CONNOR
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Callers to a state road-construction information
line Thursday might have been surprised to hear, "We love nasty talk as much
as
you do."
The Illinois Department of Transportation intended newly installed signs
along the Dan Ryan Expressway, which will undergo major reconstruction
starting
later this month, to instruct motorists to call a toll-free number for
information on alternate routes.
Instead, the initial number posted directed callers wanting "exciting live
talk" to another toll-free number, which begins, "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."
Three of six informational signs were planted Thursday along the 11-mile
stretch of roadway that will be rebuilt during the next two years, IDOT
spokesman
Matt Vanover said. An IDOT worker commuting to work Thursday morning
recognized the incorrect number and alerted officials, he said.
"We apologize to anyone who may have called that number and did not get the
information that they were looking for," Vanover said.
Workers were correcting the number on the signs Thursday afternoon, Vanover
said. The Bureau of Operations is responsible for the signs, but Vanover
would
not comment further. He said the agency would investigate the mistake but he
would not speculate on whether anyone would be disciplined.
The signs alert motorists to the coming work on the nation's fourth-busiest
expressway and urges them to find a detour with help from the toll-free
number.
But the first one posted prompted callers to dial another number, where they
were invited to engage in "hot amateur talk and voice personals" for 99
cents
a minute, or "live, one-on-one" chat with a "nasty girl" for $2.99 a minute.
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The Dan Ryan Expressway construction information line is (877) 411-IDOT.
hahahahahahahahaha! That's priceless!
And what would be the other number? *wink wink