The Phone Scammer

Ooh You're In Trouble

Mortified Media and TRAX from PRX

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.6 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Is it ever okay to take advantage of a loophole? A precocious twelve year old does just that when he discovers a loophole in the phone company's equipment policy.

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0:00.0	The following story is true. Names and places may have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty and the just plain ridiculous.
0:09.0	Today on...
0:10.0	Ooh, you're in trouble.
0:14.0	Hi, I'm Zach, and when I was 12, I scammed the phone company.
0:19.0	Ooh, that sounds bad. But is it?
0:21.8	That's something I'm always wondering.
0:23.4	Because, you know, I'm that little voice in your head.
0:25.7	But you can call me by my initials, LV.
0:27.8	Hi, LV.
0:28.5	What's up?
0:29.3	And if there's one thing I know, it's that we don't always do what we're told.
0:32.6	Sometimes we're stirring up mischief.
0:34.5	Please report to the principal's office. Sometimes we're trying to spark change.
0:38.8	Attention, students.
0:40.0	Please stop protesting in the cafeteria.
0:42.6	This is a show about what happens
0:44.3	when we break the rules growing up
0:45.8	and someone shouts.
0:47.3	Ooh, you're in trouble.
0:49.7	Stories of rebels, rascals,
0:51.4	rule breakers, and even revolutionaries.
0:59.0	Phones have always had a level of importance, I think.
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