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O what a crummy Christmas morning for Brandon Burns of California. When the poor lad husked the wrapping paper away from his brand-new Playstation 3, he learned a cruel lesson about deception: Inside the Playstation 3 box, there was not a console but a phone book.
It wasn’t a set-up by his parents, who were as surprised as anyone about the switcheroo. Naturally, they weren’t happy about owning the most expensive phone book in the world, and the retailer has since rectified the problem.
Burns was in a pretty good humour about the whole shebang. “Well, I was more laughing than disappointed. I pulled the thing out, and I’m looking around, and there’s no PlayStation in there. And then, I thought ‘Dang! Those elves jacked my PlayStation!’”
He certainly has fodder for years of Christmas pranks to play on his kids.
Incidentally, I don’t know about the rest of the world but right now in Toronto, Yellow Pages is in the midst of an aggressive attempt to make fumbling through the phone book seem more convenient than looking up a number online. Hilarious!
