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As the story spread, the birthday billboard prank also started to get international news coverage. When that happened, the number of calls and messages increased even more.
According to Michael, Chris Sr. spent an hour and a half deleting 3,000 texts – and then he received 2,500 more in just 15 minutes once several news stations aired the story. Needless to say, Chris Sr. spent a lot of time fielding all of the texts and calls he kept getting.