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  • Mwallerby
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    A man did this in London in 1810, but with everything - chimney sweeps, piano deliveries, priests, lawyers, coal carts, doctors, undertakers, the archbishop of Canterbury…

    It brought the whole area to a standstill and the guy won a guinea in a bet and ran away to the countryside

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax

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        I mean, is this story set in the 90s? Where can you order pizza from today that:

        1. doesn’t have caller ID (oh hey, the same number is calling again for the 12th time tonight)

        2. doesn’t require payment up front

        3. Wouldn’t notice that every sequential house on the same street had ordered

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          It was specified that there were multiple pizza delivery services. Even so 1. requires the phone operator to notice, 2. was perfectly normal a few years ago and I know some places where it’s still possible.