Hey baby, wanna duck?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Duck stamp error sends callers to sex line

WASHINGTON — People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct.

The carrier card for the duck stamp transposes two numbers, so instead of listing 1-800-782-6724, it lists 1-800-872-6724. The first number spells out 1-800-STAMP24, while the second number spells out 1-800-TRAMP24.

People calling that second number are welcomed by “Intimate Connections” and enticed by a husky female voice to “talk only to the girls that turn you on,” for $1.99 a minute.

Duck stamps, which cost $15 a piece, are required to hunt migratory waterfowl. The government uses nearly all the revenue to purchase waterfowl habitat for the National Wildlife Refuge System. In 2006-2007, the latest figures available, duck stamp purchases brought in nearly $22 million.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service, which administers the program, printed about 3.5 million duck stamps attached to cards with the wrong number. An agency spokeswoman, Rachel Levin, said it would cost $300,000 to reprint them.

“I don’t know that it would be worth it to do a reprint,” she said Thursday. “That’s a lot of money we can be using for wildlife conservation. With all of the needs for conservation, it doesn’t make sense to divert money away from an important cause.” ...
The agency first learned of the mistake a few days ago, when a duck stamp owner informed them about the glitch. Levin said the agency has not received any complaints.
... The government uses a contractor, Ashton Potter Security Printers of Williamsville, N.Y., to print the duck stamps. Levin said she did not know whether the error was made by the government or by the company.

Ashton Potter’s president and chief executive, Barry Switzer, said that the company was provided with the wrong telephone number.

“We reproduced the wrong number correctly,” he said. “We regret this whole situation happened, but we did our job properly.”

[stevew]

I wonder if t would be cheaper just to buy the 1800 sex number.

[sterlingice]

whoops

SI

[M GO BLUE!!!]

LICK IT, LICK IT!

[Doug5984]

Nice. I love the part about receiving no complaints.
But most of the poeple I've duck hunted with would've probably stayed on the line for a while a...eh already here, might as well hang around for a little while, it's only $2 a minute.

[MrBug708]

Did George O'Leary give out the number?

[JeeberD]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

Did George O'Leary give out the number?

Heh, I was just going to mention that...

[Ragone]

Somehow its not shocking that Barry Switzer was involved with this

I was wondering why Mike Price had taken up Duck hunting all the sudden though