PLA Book Project

The PLA Book Project is a collection of stories, based around the original issues of PLA, RBCP’s bio and other things found on this website. It’s written by RBCP and should be available for purchase by Winter of 2010. Preorders are being taken, so click here if you’d like to reserve your copy, which you’re likely to receive several days earlier than people who don’t preorder.

Below is a list of all the chapters from the book. You may think that you’ve already read a lot of this material by reading the chapter list, but keep in mind that very little of it is just a just a cut-and-paste of material you can find on this website. Nearly everything has been re-written for the book and lots of new material has been added, all based on things from the PLA.


Dino and His Cordless Phone: The classic story of a man using his cordless phone. Zak and RBCP spend a single night harassing Dino and listening to his reactions over a police scanner as he calls his wife and other people to tell them what’s happening. This chapter is based on the PLA issue, but is completely re-written for the book.

Fun With Fall Forwarding: Loosely based on PLA issue #19, this chapter details all the crazy things a person can do with the phone company’s call forwarding features. Read about the confusion caused at the phone company by forwarding calls, practical jokes we’ve played and our bizarre call forwarding experiments.

Credit Card Fraud: From flying around the country to staying in hotels to satisfying my material needs, there’s not a lot I didn’t try with other people’s credit cards in the 1990′s. Find out how it all began to how it all ended, from the free stuff to the busts that ended it all.

The Fred Meyer Incident: Years ago it was possible to call into any Fred Meyer store in the country and take over the overhead paging system remotely. Once you were connected, you could stay on as long as you wanted to, saying whatever came to your mind for all the shoppers and employees to hear.

Automated Harassment: Tired of pouring my own time and energy into making harassing calls to people, I completely automated the process by setting up a few websites to do the work for me.

History Lesson: Detailing the history of the Phone Losers of America, this chapter tells you how it all began and how far its come over the past two decades.

The Zine: The Phone Losers of America zine is where it all began. This chapter contains a short description of all the original PLA text files, along with some details on how or why they were written.

Homelessness: I spent a lot of time sleeping on sidewalks, in parking lots and in bushes in between my flights around the country.

Wacky Morning DJ: The story of a certain morning radio DJ who had the misfortune to have RBCP as a listener. You’ve heard some of the DJ story from PLA’s podcast, but this chapter gives the complete details of everything that happened, including the hacked AOL and eBay accounts, the piles of phone bills and the emergency operator interrupting of on-air phone calls.

7-Eleven Looting: One thing leads to another during the night shift at 7-Eleven and the next thing you know, we’re stealing all of money from the safe and fleeing the state.

Red Boxing: Since red boxing is such a relevant topic in today’s world, it only makes sense that an entire chapter be devoted to this subject.

Taking Revenge Too Far: A few simple acts of revenge turn into a full-time job for RBCP and Zak. Read about the victim who endures daily torture for years.

Big Larry: He didn’t think anything would happen when he stole food from other residents of the house he was living in. Read about how wrong Larry was.

eBay Pranks: RBCP’s eBay feedback has been featured on Fark, countless morning radio shows, and even in a book about eBay. Read the feedback and some of the other pranks pulled on eBay users.

McDonald’s Sign Prank: A wooden sign in the parking lot of a McDonald’s becomes the victim of a prank by someone with too much time on his hands.

Boulder News Frenzy: How a national-murder case became the focus of the PLA for over a year, resulting in the closure of a major newspaper’s online forums. And how, 10 years later, this resulted in RBCP being the focus of one man’s murder investigation.

Beige Boxing in Celina: A few dozen phones lines are taken over and evil things are done with them.

Finding A Job: Have you ever wanted a job so badly that you spent months harassing all the other employees into quitting, just so a position would open up? Find out if driving convenience store employees insane, one by one, and causing thousands of dollars in damages in the process will actually work.

Yellow Pages Prank: Have you ever had someone send a pizza to your house? What if they took that prank and completely crossed the line with it, scheduling hundreds of businesses to show up at your door, all at the same time.

If you’d like to discuss the book project, you can post below or you can view the thread in our forums.

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14 Responses to “PLA Book Project”
  1. From Judas Iscariot on October 14th, 2003 at 12:30 pm:

    Nice Job on the book so far RBCP. It’s a really good read that gives some insight to parts of your life none of us really know about. If the story about Scott is true, then I’m sorry. That must have been a huge mind fuck. Regardless, keep working on the book. You’d be surprised how big this could be in the underground.

    Also, you should name your chapters. Chapter 7 – “Roy and the Cactus”

    -Judas


  2. From Murd0c on October 14th, 2003 at 1:56 pm:

    Good book, too bad the author sucks gerbils.

    No really, keep writing, and you would probably take over the Taco Bell or something. Its good, really.

    -Murd0c


  3. From rbcp on October 14th, 2003 at 3:09 pm:

    Thanks…I’ll name the chapters eventually. And don’t think of any of this as an insight to my life, it’s all going to be complete fiction. Even though it’ll be based on PLA stuff, there will be no RBCP, no PLA, nothing like that.


  4. From demonic (DFxC) on January 5th, 2004 at 5:14 am:

    Not bad, looks like good bathroom reading at least. You might be able to save some pennies when you publish by using one of the online services. There’s some decent ones.


  5. From whoreshack on January 22nd, 2004 at 3:24 pm:

    Pretty interesting stuff. Maybe put in some elves and barbarians. people love that kind of shit. Good luck with this thing, man.


  6. From SlyBattery on April 30th, 2005 at 4:20 am:

    I know all this stuff is pretty old but I have to say it was pretty damn good. I don’t know if there are plans to finish this but you should definitly think about it. I think it could actually make a pretty good indie film or something


  7. From ApprenticePhreak on November 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pm:

    We demand more.


  8. From jammie on December 15th, 2008 at 9:13 am:

    I still think it’s great, but also still think this should be totally non-fiction. Your life has been so interesting that you shouldn’t need to make anything up. Think it would make it more compelling.


  9. From Sebastian on February 16th, 2009 at 5:17 pm:

    I agree with jammie, but I think you should finish this book, then write an autobiography. That would be great.


  10. From Joebbob on February 19th, 2009 at 9:12 am:

    this Shit is funny, its even better i live 30 min from Galveston
    cant wait from more


  11. From flamoot on May 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pm:

    Yes RBCP this is good


  12. From David on October 13th, 2009 at 1:03 am:

    It’d be cool if this was ever finished, since it’s actually pretty good so far.


  13. From Phone Losers of America - PLA: The Book on August 9th, 2010 at 10:13 pm:

    [...] in the book that you hopefully haven’t heard of. For a somewhat complete chapter list, visit the PLA book page or to talk about the book project in the PLA Forums, click [...]


  14. From Chuck Forbin on August 12th, 2010 at 11:30 am:

    Congratulations on the book. It sounds great. The PLA has been one of my favorite sites for years.

    I know much of the book has been generated from the site, but I think it would be great to add as much new material as possible. Are there a couple of more topics or stories that you can quickly make chapters out of from content that is not on the site?


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