12-Year Old Finds Hint Line/Sex Line Swap

Well I’ll be darned. Apparently the telephone hint lines that publishing companies sometimes put on the jackets of video games, now superseded largely by web-based applications, don’t have an infinitie lifespan.

Sony included one such number on the cover of games like Ratchet & Clank, and when 12-year old Ammon Bricker found himself stuck while playing the game, he did what any resourceful gamer would do…he called the hint line. Unfortunately for him, Sony had stopped using that number years ago (the original game was released in 2002) and the digits had since been sold to one of those sordid, late-night-tv-advertising phone sex lines.

The practice of “recycling” phone numbers is fairly commonplace, but when you’ve got a youngster calling for video game help and instead getting tips of a whole other variety…well you can understand why Bricker’s mom isn’t exactly thrilled.

Sony, obviously, can’t be held responsible for what was done with the number after it gave up ownership, and no one, for once, is really to blame; it’s just one of those ironically hilarious moments in life where you shake your head and have to giggle.

Via | Game|Life