It's clearly a case where the U.S. government failed to get all its ducks in a row.
Now callers are getting their feathers ruffled over a typographical mix-up in a phone number that tells hunters where to call to buy their duck stamps. The Duck stamps, which cost $15 a piece, are required to hunt migratory waterfowl in the United States.
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.
As a result, people calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are greeted instead by a phone-sex line where they are enticed by a husky female voice to "talk only to the girls that turn you on," for $1.99 a minute.
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