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Tattoo You (pranks part II)

A 2-year-old baby tattooed on the radio.

A friend of mine told me she heard a radio station in L.A. pulled an April Fools Day prank that has them in hot water with the police.

I Googled, and saw that it was a DJ named Kid Corona. That sounds to me like the name of a boxer with a drinking problem.

I have no clue what station he works at, but his prank involved pretending to tattooing a 2-year-old. They brought in a real tattoo artist, to make the bit seem more believable (and I'm assuming, lots of fun sound effects).

Of course, child protective services showed up. Angry people called in. And, the police dropped in.

I thought about being in 9th grade, and seeing the Van Halen album "1984" come out, which showed a baby smoking. I thought the baby also had a fake tattoo, but I'm not positive. And, about five years later, a band called Bad4Good, which was a national act with kids in their early teens (one being a former child actor), had guitar wiz Steve Vai's baby on the cover; covered in tattooes.

Usually in situations like this, the police will fine the people, for their cops spending time and money investigating. In this instance, I think they should....uh, bite the bullet. After all, couldn't they have just called the station and say "Are these DJs actually tattooing a baby?" And, they wouldn't have to storm the station with sirens blaring.

Of course, if I was one of the cops investigating and I called the station to find out the details, I would hang up the phone with a shocked look on my face. When other cops would say "Are they really doing that?" I would reply, "I don't know. But, I was the 10th caller. And I just won tickets to Supertramp."

I probably wouldn't last long as a cop.

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A friend of mine told me she heard a radio station in L.A. pulled an April Fools Day prank that has them in hot water with the police.

I Googled, and saw that it was a DJ named Kid Corona. That sounds to me like the name of a boxer with a drinking problem.

I have no clue what station he works at, but his prank involved pretending to tattooing a 2-year-old. They brought in a real tattoo artist, to make the bit seem more believable (and I'm assuming, lots of fun sound effects).

Of course, child protective services showed up. Angry people called in. And, the police dropped in.

I thought about being in 9th grade, and seeing the Van Halen album "1984" come out, which showed a baby smoking. I thought the baby also had a fake tattoo, but I'm not positive. And, about five years later, a band called Bad4Good, which was a national act with kids in their early teens (one being a former child actor), had guitar wiz Steve Vai's baby on the cover; covered in tattooes.

Usually in situations like this, the police will fine the people, for their cops spending time and money investigating. In this instance, I think they should....uh, bite the bullet. After all, couldn't they have just called the station and say "Are these DJs actually tattooing a baby?" And, they wouldn't have to storm the station with sirens blaring.

Of course, if I was one of the cops investigating and I called the station to find out the details, I would hang up the phone with a shocked look on my face. When other cops would say "Are they really doing that?" I would reply, "I don't know. But, I was the 10th caller. And I just won tickets to Supertramp."

I probably wouldn't last long as a cop.

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