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Sacrificial Toasters - posted on Wednesday, March 19th 2008 9:57 pm

Today I tricked some people into taking their toasters apart. I never thought I would open up a journal entry with that sentence, but it’s true. Ever since we made the video in 2003 that showed us hijacking fast food drive-thru frequencies, people have been asking us how we did it. So after 4 years of being asked, I finally made a video that explains how we did it. The only thing is, I lied. The video tells people they need to take apart their toaster and pull out a crystal from the circuit board. And toasters don’t have crystals in them.

I submitted the video to a few blogs that I subscribe to and two of the picked it up - Gizmodo and Consumerist. These are pretty major sites and they managed to bring in more than 8,000 hits to the video. 82 people have favored the video, putting it at #19 on Youtube’s Most Viewed today and #15 on YouTube’s Top Favorites.

The comments on each of those pages are pretty funny. It took 6 hours on both sites for anyone to finally call B.S. on the video. One guy claims he took apart toasters and curling irons, looking for the crystal. And a guy chatting with me earlier today send me a link to an Ebay auction for a CB Radio, asking if that one would work with the mod. So not only are people going to take apart their toasters, but they’re also going to be buying CB radios. I am the biggest jerk ever! I’ve been giggling uncontrollably all day over all this. I can’t wait for the angry emails to start pouring in.

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26 Responses to “Sacrificial Toasters”

  1. Posted by anon on March 20th, 2008 | 5:47 am

    What style! This is awesome…


  2. Posted by Rob T Firefly on March 20th, 2008 | 7:13 am

    This is absolutely brilliant in every way.


  3. Posted by Jenn on March 20th, 2008 | 9:01 am

    Favorited, rated and commented.


  4. Posted by MatthewT on March 20th, 2008 | 9:06 am

    Wait so like even buying the crystal online and sticking it in the radio wouldn’t work?

    Oh you so crazy Brad. Also the Gizmodo story had like 50 points on reddit last I checked


  5. Posted by Tachyon on March 20th, 2008 | 9:23 am

    One hint in the video is that while you are theoretically demonstrating the device at the drive through to prove it works, the audio we hear at this point is old audio from the original prank.


  6. Posted by nicolle on March 20th, 2008 | 1:30 pm

    Tach…that’s true, and we know it because we’ve seen the old clip several times. we’re rather dedicated phone losers like that. ;) however, i think it was edited in about as smoothly as it could be, and will definitely fool a lot of people into buying CBs and destroying their toasters.


  7. Posted by nova on March 20th, 2008 | 2:12 pm

    you are a bad, bad, man…

    props to ya!


  8. Posted by pi>cactus on March 21st, 2008 | 1:39 pm

    lmfao, i was actually gonna try this.
    CACTUS!


  9. Posted by meatwad on March 22nd, 2008 | 5:54 pm

    Brilliant. I bet the how-to took about ten takes to do without cracking up.


  10. Posted by Dustin on March 22nd, 2008 | 8:35 pm

    Thanks asshole


  11. Posted by Coco on March 23rd, 2008 | 6:47 pm

    You bastard! I’m glad I checked your site, I was gonna take my toaster apart tomorrow. I gutted…was looking forward to tormenting the local McDonalds.


  12. Posted by aaron7 on March 24th, 2008 | 6:37 am

    lol you could tell when you were desoldering the crystal from the toaster… no quality control would have left such long leads on a component!


  13. Posted by Entropy_king on March 27th, 2008 | 9:56 pm

    wow, I fell. That was fun, but seriously now, how the FCK do you do this, I have a wonderful taco bell nearby that needs this to happen to them.


  14. Posted by drew on March 31st, 2008 | 1:29 pm

    1) found that crystal in like one second http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/395978-crystal-6-5536mhz-12pf-hc-49-ua-ecs-65-12-1.html
    .40 cents

    2) a toaster obviously has no reason to have a crystal in it unless maybe it had some kind of timer in it

    although theoretically you could change the frequency of a cb i really doubt it would be that easy
    hey wait dont cbs run off of am?


  15. Posted by Og Style on March 31st, 2008 | 2:59 pm

    You had me tricked. I found it hard to belive that crystals were in toasters. Also if you add 3x the channels to the cb where where these at. CB’s only go to 40 and even if it go’s higher it will stop at 99 not 120. Unless you add switches and call them side bands.


  16. Posted by Hos on March 31st, 2008 | 3:52 pm

    Drew - he admitted that it was a hoax in this entry so why are you trying to debunk it? All your proving is that you’re an idiot.


  17. Posted by Astrochess on March 31st, 2008 | 8:51 pm

    This was a pretty good prank, but couldn’t you have waited until April fools’?


  18. Posted by ViolentJ on April 3rd, 2008 | 3:53 pm

    Well I will say this..

    It was a nice prank I’ll give you that.
    All though I knew there wasn’t a crystal inside of a toaster I took my old toaster from years back apart to see what really controls it anyway, so it didn’t cost me shit!

    The best part about this is that nobody understands the radio wave cycle so tripling the frequency on a conventional CB radio would be way over the alloted basic 30MHz freq most restraunt headsets work on. channel 1 on a CB is 27.965 MHz there for tripling the frequency to 83.085 Mhz not even in ham band.

    Great prank Brad

    and to all you suckers out there…

    Do some research before you get nailed!


  19. Posted by ViolentJ on April 3rd, 2008 | 3:58 pm

    OG Style…

    he also said in his video that it will increase the power by 3 times not the channels you idiot.

    Increasing power only gives a CB an upstep on frequency not channel directory.

    There for meaning you’d still have 40 channels running at a totaly different frequency allocation.

    And yes CB’s run on AM Modulation. So changing a crystal will obviously change the freq. but then you have to re-tune the TX and RX within the radio itself.

    Experiment enough with it and soon enough you will find some cool shit


  20. Posted by oooo on April 4th, 2008 | 3:56 pm

    HAH! Wow… I can’t believe people would be so foolish to believe that. Pretty funny non-the-less. Pretty simple logic, (Band Pass Filter+Drive thru’s usually use FM + WTF would toasters have crystals for). I like the ’safety device’ explanation tho ;).


  21. Posted by josh on April 11th, 2008 | 4:16 am

    Im gonna kick your ass


  22. Posted by lol on April 14th, 2008 | 7:53 am

    can you have like five crystals in it at once becase i have alot for a talkabout walky taalky to hack


  23. Posted by dumbass on May 7th, 2008 | 4:47 pm

    you are an ass…i took apart two toasters and bought a cb…god damn what a waste of money…


  24. Posted by i hate you on May 7th, 2008 | 7:03 pm

    you gay faggot wtf is your fucking problem you fucking asshole. this isnt funny, its a sick trick. man has dreamed since mcdonalds was created to try and play pranks on the customers, and you gave thousands false hope. i hope you enjoyed yourself because i am a priest and I will see to it that you spend the rest of eternity in hell.


  25. Posted by Razel on May 16th, 2008 | 7:52 am

    Nice try Brad, if that is your real name. I know the truth, this really does work but the government leaned on you to call it a hoax and you caved. The government doesn’t want us to know that we can interfere so easily with drive-thrus cos their spys use them for dead drops.
    I tried it myself and it worked. I hear the voices coming through loud and clear. Now please excuse me while i put my foil hat back on.
    I wish you a very good Cactus.


  26. Posted by Eric on July 3rd, 2008 | 3:23 am

    “I hate you” -

    You’re a fucking idiot… and you’re a Priest? Yeah… OK…


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