The Famous Airport Announcement Prank

November 21st, 2015

Awake Goy

An oldie but still one of the best airport pranks ever done: two Englishmen compiled a list of foreign-sounding names with double meanings and, armed with a tape recorder, went to London’s Heathrow airport.

They acted as if they could not pronounce the names themselves, so as not to reveal the joke, but just handed over a note with the names printed on it and asked the employ at the Information Center.

In order to make it as believable as possible, they dressed up as chauffeurs and asked for help finding these people about 40 minutes after a Thai Airways or Air India flight had landed.

The pranksters then retreated to a spot below the speakers and recorded the results.

After the fifth recording, they had to leave Heathrow as airport security figured out what was going on. The last recording is from Gatwick.

1. Names writen as

Arheddis Varkenjaab, and Aywellbe Fayed.

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I hate this fucking job, and I will be fired.

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2. Names writen as

Arhevbin Fayed and Bybeiev Rhibodie

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I‘ve just been fired, and bye-bye everybody

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