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<\/p>\nA mischievous prankster has been causing chaos at a York pub by attaching bogus “voice-activated” labels to equipment throughout the venue.<\/p>\n
The Stone Roses Bar on King Street has become the target of an elaborate practical joke, with fake stickers appearing on various machines over recent days.<\/p>\n
Joel Bray, the 22-year-old who owns the establishment alongside his parents, Greg and Sharon, revealed unsuspecting punters have been completely taken in by the deceptive labels.<\/p>\n
The pub, which attracts a significant student cohort, has seen customers attempting to operate machinery using verbal commands alone.<\/p>\n
Staff at the pub have found the ongoing prank amusing, although Mr Bray took to social media pleading: “Can whoever is sticking these to our machines please STOP!”<\/p>\n
One particularly memorable incident saw a customer repeatedly bellowing “play Oasis” at the jukebox for a solid hour, convinced the machine would respond to voice commands.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had someone shouting ‘play Oasis’ at the jukebox for an hour already today,” Mr Bray recounted.<\/p>\n
The prankster has been placing stickers on appliances around the pub<\/p>\n
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The toilets have also fallen victim to the sticker campaign, with labels appearing on hand dryers prompting patrons to shout phrases like “DRY MY HANDS” or “START” at the appliances.<\/p>\n
A phone charging station within the venue has similarly been targeted by the mysterious joker.<\/p>\n
“Every day we are going around and finding them on different machines we have got,” the owner explained.<\/p>\n
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Despite the confusion caused to customers, staff members have been thoroughly entertained by the situation, with Mr Bray noting: “The staff just think it’s hilarious.”<\/p>\n
The young owner has taken the whole affair in good spirits, describing it as among the funniest yet most irritating incidents the venue has experienced.<\/p>\n
“We get random things all the time, but I think this is up there with the best as funniest, but probably most annoying,” he admitted.<\/p>\n
Rather than seeking retribution, Mr Bray expressed a forgiving attitude towards the perpetrator, stating he would “probably shake their hand and buy them a pint” upon discovering their identity.<\/p>\n
He acknowledged there was little the pub could do to prevent the joke continuing, although removing the adhesive labels had proven somewhat tedious.<\/p>\n
The mystery has now been solved, however, with Mr Bray confirming: “After hours of searching through CCTV, we have found the culprit of the stickers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mischievous prankster has been causing chaos at a York pub by attaching bogus “voice-activated” labels to equipment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35884,96,59,50,65089,2331,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-across-the-uk","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-north-west-of-england","tag-sgg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}