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Radio's Top 10 Turkey Moments of 2005

By Corey Deitz, About.com

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#8: Radio Duo Suspended After Burglary Stunt

What's stupider than annoying your Program Director? How about breaking into his home, live on the air.

That's what Tim Shaw and producer Greg Pebble did. Both were employed by a British music station known as Kerrang! when they staged the mock burglary.

The station issued a statement that said the stunt was "an attempted on-air prank that went way far beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior." Oh, you mean like trashing the place, and then spray-painting obscenities on a wall?

The one thing they forgot to spray paint was: "You're suspended indefinitely".

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