That's pretty great. We need to start doing this with other CEO's.

Oh, Zug. You've been reliably awesome since the Computer Stew days.

@midwestkel: Micheal Moore has been doing this for years and making pretty good movies out of it.

Awww. I wanted Ivan to actually respond, but he probably wasn't even there.

I pictured an ostentatious mansion for a Verizon CEO.

Did he say he was Sir John Hargrave?

checking Google...

"Sir John Hargrave, as he is now legally known (he changed his name through a court order when Buckingham Palace refused to knight him..."

What a D-Bag.

Average citizen guy could be cited or arrested for disturbing the peace. There are better ways (teh intertubes) for exacting revenge.

Just saying ....

He should have stayed there.

lol CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?!!? *echo*

@DrMorison: He's gone off the path a little bit in recent years, but Roger and Me was pretty fantastic. His TV Nation stuff was pretty good too.

Yelling at a guy's vacant house for 5 minutes is completely pointless. Verizon distributes info for 10s of millions of people for round the clock marketing and government surveillance. At the very least you need to break into his house and stack up all his furniture in a big pile.

Keep us safe in your loving arms, Ivan. Stroke our hair.

PRICELESS.

@morlo:
Even better: Do like the Cal Tech guys used to do on Ditch Day, glue all his furniture to the ceiling upside down

You could have walked up to his door to ask him to sign up for Comcast or AT&T.

Pretty cool.

Now, is he up for hitting politicians at home and "robo calling" their front yards?

Shaun Dakin
CEO
StopPoliticalCalls.org

@SgtMajorFragg:

A terse email just isn't as funny. The CEO response from an intertube: "We are taking the matter of your privacy very seriously..."

Zug is still online? Heck, that was one of the first sites I started visiting regularly in those hoary days of the 90's. That, and suck.com were some of my faves.

@David Rodriguez: Yes, clearly he should have more respect for antiquated aristocratic titles!

@morlo: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei.

@mcs328: Now THAT would have been priceless.

@SgtMajorFragg:
I'm not positive, but I think you can only be cited for disturbing the peace between certain hours of the day (i.e. after 8PM) I could be wrong though. He could probably be charged with disorderly conduct though.

@Greasy Thumb Guzik: whatever happened to reassembling a VW bug in the living room?

@ARP: uh-oh... can of worms. Taking cover in 3... 2... 1...

@David Rodriguez: John is hilarious and definitely not a douchebag.

Kudos to him for actually having the gal to do something like that.

I laughed when he started saying, "Do you hear me now?"

@Bobby Smith: In Philadelphia, police officers told me that for them to arrest protesters for disturbing the peace, they would have to get the officer with the special noise-measuring device (I'm sure there's a technical term for it) to officially check their volume, and they would have to compare it to any previous information on regular, ambient noise in the area. Without showing that the person with the bullhorn was contributing more than a certain number of decibals of noise above background, they couldn't be arrested.

Not sure if this is true, but it's what they told us. The protesters were in front of a Planned Parenthood in center city, in an area with a lot of apartments. Certain weekends drew quite a few loud protests.

@SgtMajorFragg: Well technically he is extracting revenge via the intertubes, otherwise the only people who actually got wind of this stunt would be the neighbors who were home at the time.

That was lame. Sorry to people who might like this zug.com, but this seemed completely fake...

1. Because it was the middle of the day and Mr. CEO probably wasn't even home.

2. ... a guitar amp? My eyes rolled when that came out. It wasn't even plugged in and it was played up way too much with cheesy echo editing.

3. As stated above, there are much better ways to go about doing things like this.

Just what I needed to see before I go toe to toe with Verizon's hellspawn customer service. One. Last. Time. (Thankfully.)

@G.O.B.: Come on!: Depending on where it's located, that blah brick McMansion could easily be a multi-million dollar house.

I've checked out zug.com in the past. While Hargrave has some good ideas which seem like they'll turn into genuinely funny bits, they always somehow fail to deliver leaving you with a "meh" feeling in the end. I also don't think he understands the meaning of the work "prank"...taking viagra and then doing mundane things like picking up your drycleaning isn't really a prank, and it also isn't really that funny.

@morlo: Back in college we decided in our drunken stupor to pull this on our friend. He wasn't very pleased. [files.getdropbox.com]

Pity he didn't do it when the guy was home to hear it. Say, at night...

Someone doesnt seem to like this guy.
Looking at the history edits of his wiki page is hilarious.
Example:
[en.wikipedia.org]

@Batwaffel: Yeah, I'd admire him if he had actually taken it seriously instead of trying to be funny... and I wonder why so much of his written account is left out of the video (why can't we see the guy with the dog or the other people he talks to? Do they exist?)

@TheBursar: This too:
[en.wikipedia.org]

@Shaun Dakin:
I once kept getting calls from our congressman's office, even after I asked them to stop. So I tracked down his home number and called to let him know they wouldn't stop calling. I talked to his wife, and then he personally called me back a couple of days later. The political calls stopped.

@GearheadGeek: Depends on the neighborhood, but that kind of house in a nice NYC suburb is worth at least 1.5Mil and easily upward of 2Mil.
Anyone know where it's located?

@MostlyHarmless: If only his detractors spent 1/10th the time trying to disprove the multitude of facts he cites on his site for all his movies as they do pointing out that he's ample-figured, they might learn something.
That said, I like guerilla-style filming and pranks like this, especially against the unseen faces that shape so many lives. It should be encouraged, as it might instill a small sliver of ethics in their wrinkled, decrepit souls.
Just like Voldemort's in Deathly Hallows! (Hey, if I skip off-topic, might as well go someplace novel)

@KStrike155: Mess up his crap and put leaves all over? What were you going for exactly?

@Trai_Dep: I dont think Moldy Voldy had any ethics left in him in Deathly Hallows.

Wasnt it the dead old gay guy who said that he was beyond all hope?

@Kimaroo - 20% More Kitty Added!: Yeah probably at his Hampton's hideaway or on the beach somewhere.

Now we play the waiting game... someone else will share Ivan Seidenberg's home address on the internets.

@TheBursar: Lol.

I also read the entire entry on him and misread his wife's name as Syphilis. (It's Phyllis) :)

@lannister80: It's drunk college boys. Do you need any other reason?

@midwestkel:

Could'a heard him better if his amp went to 11.

@MostlyHarmless: Maybe, but who am I if I'm not an instagator?

I will say that MM's approach, whether you agree with the underlying opinions or not, is an effective way to draw attention to an issue. Specifically, it's an effective way to draw attention to people who have so much influence over our lives, but don't always make on to the news: CEO's, leader of think tanks, lobbyists, etc. So this guy and MM have that in common.

@Trai_Dep:

Just like Voldemort's in Deathly Hallows! (Hey, if I skip off-topic, might as well go someplace novel)

@Trai_Dep: +1000 for Harry Potter reference.

@MostlyHarmless: True, but his wrinkled souls were scattered all over the place. Damn, I need to reread that book, it was definitely my fave.