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  • Maybe I'll consider her my protege.

  • Yes

  • This is a girl in Ireland...

  • Hmm?

  • who's making prank calls at the age of 8

  • Oh...love it

  • We will endeavor to bring you a few things,

  • but this is one about say she doesn't like her school

  • and she wants to get it demolished.

  • So she goes to demolition experts and tries to convince them.

  • Hello wood core (company name).

  • Hi, is that the demolition place?

  • It is, yeah.

  • Could you help me to destroy my school please?

  • Just bear with me a second.

  • Hello?

  • Hi!

  • Well, what school do you go to?

  • I go to school in Dublin.

  • And you want it demolished.

  • Yeah

  • Do you use big wrecking ball or...how do you knock it down?

  • A big ball.

  • right.

  • Well, hold on one wee second please.

  • Hello?

  • How are you? My name is Becky.

  • Yes.

  • I have a proposal for you.

  • Go ahead.

  • Are you the demolition man?

  • Yes.

  • Do you the top boss yes?

  • Go ahead. What's the craic?

  • Hello.

  • I want you to help me to destroy my school.

  • Do you want to blow it up?

  • Could you blow it up or knock it down?

  • Whatever you want done.

  • I will blow it up. That will be better.

  • Could you make sure all my teachers are in there when you knock it down?

  • don't know if I'd get away with that, mate.

  • Ah, you will. Nobody likes them.

  • They give me extra homework on the Friday and everything.

  • Where are you calling from?

  • From Dublin.

  • What school in Dublin?

  • The one that's about to fall down.

  • There's a lot of school in Dublin that are about to fall down.

  • And how much will it cost to knock it to the ground?

  • It depends on how big it is.

  • Give me a ballpark figure.

  • HA....

  • Is this the demolition company or a joke factory.

  • It's a joke factory at the minute...the joke factory...

  • Listen, are you gonna come to knock my school down or what?

  • Can you fax me a photograph or a safe plan or something?

  • Right. I'll fax it through. A plan of the school and my teachers' names.

  • Yeah, no problem, yeah

  • And you just make sure that they're all in the building when you knock it down.

  • You put all their names on there.

  • I'll give you a page's space for each individual teacher.

  • Brilliant.

  • Yeah.

  • When the school falls down will it make a crash or or a wallop?

  • ...(intelligible)... make a big bang!

  • Sounds good

  • Oh listen, I will talk to you later, top man

  • Same, good luck. Hey, you look after yourself.

  • Fill your boots man!

  • Good luck.

  • See you after.

  • I love theGive me a ball park figure."

  • She's got a big future.

Maybe I'll consider her my protege.

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