Of course this comes from the state that brought us face-eating zombies and death by cockroach-eating. Of course it does.
During a cabinet meeting yesterday Florida governor Rick Scott addressed the dangerous meningitis outbreak that has killed twelve and scared the bejesus out of thousands. In the meeting, he gave out a toll-free number that the state set up as a meningits hotline.
Except—whoops—that wasn’t the meningitis hotline number. Where did that number come from? Yep, the governor gave out a phone-sex hotline number. According to The Daily Beast, the phone sex operator answered by saying, ““Hello boys. Thank you for calling me on my anniversary.”
The governor later corrected himself—ahem, we’ll just tuck that other number aside for later—but by that point several news outlets had already passed along the most-definitely-not-toll-free number he’d given out earlier.
No word on whether the state of Florida will reimburse meningitis victims for time spent with what they could only assume was a meningitis help hotline.
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