Prank on a Belgian call center (with captions in English)
Probably the most elaborate prank of its kind ever, it was a huge hit on ° VRT (Belgium) television January 10, 2011. To share it with the rest of the world, English subtitles were a must. Enjoy! To see the captions, click on the YouTube text bubble. Mathieu, the security guard, became a folk hero overnight for his friendly demeanor. Program link: http://www.een.be/programmas/basta Original clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efLCvx0TxrM Mobistar commented after the broadcast that their call center problems had been temporary, and that more people had since been hired to shorten wait times. The music choice is brilliant as well: Background: "Green Leaves of Summer" from John Wayne's 1960 epic "The Alamo", and also used in "Inglorious Basterds". 'On hold' song: "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" by Lionel Richie. Update: The Basta guys are unstoppable. On Jan 17, they unveiled a 6 month undercover operation on the producers of nightly call-in "quizzes". This demonstrated what everybody suspected for years, i.e. that they are a scam. The authorities weren't able (or willing) to ban them. The day after Basta's broadcast , the games were cancelled. On Jan 24, they went after SABAM, a Belgian artists rights and copyright collective. If you understand Flemish / Dutch, you can see all the episodes at: http://www.een.be/bastaCategory: Comedy
Author: PetanqueAmerica
Published (on YouTube): 2011-01-13
Published (here): 2012-05-23
Rating: 4.955963; Votes:4905
Views: 1251078; Favorites: 3773
Video duration: 11 min.
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Comments on «Prank on a Belgian call center (with captions in English)»:
Strongit on 2012-04-03
Bloody brilliant. ...
Bloody brilliant. Someone needs to do this with telus here in canada.
PrankCallsBelgium on 2012-03-29
zie ons kanaal voor ...
zie ons kanaal voor prank calls met belgacom, telenet, proximus :)
nails6365 on 2012-03-20
fantastic, if only ...
fantastic, if only call centers knew the pain and agony customers go through. well done guys!
maximc93 on 2012-03-17
i don't listen to ...
i don't listen to belgian music anyway only american :p
321lolwat on 2012-03-17
Yeah these songs ...
Yeah these songs are pretty terrible, you guys have terrible taste in music as well
blinkerzot on 2012-03-16
be happy we like ...
be happy we like some of your music trolol
MrStoned93 on 2012-03-11
Americans made the ...
Americans made the internet as we know it now, but without that one Belgian guy there wouldn't be internet, nor the idea about it ;)
maximc93 on 2012-03-11
nope its disgusting ...
nope its disgusting music and im from belgium lol
maximc93 on 2012-03-11
internet was ...
internet was invented by americans and used first by americans now you again :)
321lolwat on 2012-03-06
Using U.S. songs, ...
Using U.S. songs, what's wrong? You belgians can't create good music?
redfire20003 on 2012-03-03
I love it !!!! This ...
I love it !!!! This is exactly the kind of runaround BULLSHIT, I got from VODAFONE today when I rang their customer service to sort out a billing problem.
MrStoned93 on 2012-02-23
Without Belgium ...
Without Belgium there wasn't even an internet. Grtz, now please go kill someone, swear around, and be dumb as is usual in there ;)
MrStoned93 on 2012-02-23
U leven is een ...
U leven is een slechte grap!
MrStoned93 on 2012-02-23
Who cares about an ...
Who cares about an American? Please come back if you're from a worthlier country to judge about the bravest of all Gauls ;)
MrStoned93 on 2012-02-23
I wish BASTA came ...
I wish BASTA came back to stop our louzy gouverment.We say you GOODBYE Di Rupo xD
scriptotres on 2012-02-22
I actually worked ...
I actually worked there at the helpdesk, if they would've done it to one of the call center agents it would be exactly the same. Problem is just not located on that level in general.
BlackDog1776 on 2012-02-18
The security is ...
The security is probably contracted, not provided in-house. I don't know, but it is a good bet. All they probably did was harass some low-paid working joe who was just trying to do his graveyard shift job.
Gregasus on 2012-02-08
And thats how we ...
And thats how we roll in Belgium!
volyn on 2012-02-03
but you are not ...
but you are not funny anymore
UltraSupernovaBoy on 2012-02-03
That's why I don't ...
That's why I don't use mobistar ;-)
UltraSupernovaBoy on 2012-02-03
I'm Belgian to!
I'm Belgian to!
atthewburns1229m on 2012-01-27
I want this video ...
I want this video on my FTV unit.
dutchlover2012 on 2012-01-22
een van de beste ...
een van de beste belgische humor
callmetagno on 2012-01-15
The security guard ...
The security guard was awfully polite
l6ST11 on 2012-01-14
haha Salut he !
haha Salut he !