Cingular Pulls 'Blatantly Offensive' Ringtone

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I guess some people just have no sense of humor. ;-)

Via MSNBC (AP).

[snip]

Cingular Wireless LLC pulled a ringtone from its Web site Tuesday after learning that it carried a message the company 
called "blatantly offensive."

The Atlanta-based cell phone company became aware of the ringtone, which uses mixed English and Spanish and threatens 
deportation, after an inquiry from a reporter for The Brownsville Herald.

The newspaper reported in its online edition Tuesday that the ringtone started with a siren, followed by a male voice 
saying in a Southern drawl, "This is la Migra," a slang term for the Border Patrol.

"Por favor, put the oranges down and step away from the cell phone. I repeat-o, put the oranges down and step away from 
the telephone-o. I'm deporting you back home-o," the voice continued.

[snip]

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12722470/

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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