Sweet Revenge ?
Man gets revenge on Gumtree seller by texting him entire works of
Shakespeare
24-year-old Edd Joseph realised that his chances of
getting the £80 back for the PS3 games and console he bought from the rogue
seller were slim to none, so turned to William Shakespeare in a bid for
revenge.
The Bristolian discovered he could copy the text for
every one of the Bard's plays from a browser and paste them into an SMS, before
sending it to the Gumtree advertiser's contact number.
The victim can only receive texts in 160 character
chunks however, meaning Shakespeare's 37 works will come through in 29,305
parts (with a buzz for each one).
The stunt comes at no cost to Joseph, who has a phone
contract that allows him unlimited free texts.
"My first thought was that I could try and
pretend I had found out where he lived but it was all a bit of a cliche and it
wasn't going to worry him really," he told the Bristol Post.
"Then it just occurred to me you can copy and
paste things from the internet and into a text message.
"It got me thinking, 'what can I sent to him'
which turned to 'what is a really long book', which ended with me sending him
Macbeth."
While ingenious, the stunt does nothing for the hole
in his pocket, though something tells me a high street video games retailer
will soon enter to save the day.