Mario Magnotta
Mario Magnotta was an Italian janitor of a commercial school in L'Aquila, Abruzzo. He became very well known in Italy after being the victim of several prank calls, made in 1986 and 1987 by some former students of the institute, which were later circulated on audio cassettes and, eventually, on the Internet.
Biography
Born in Pieve di Teco, in the province of Imperia, Liguria, Magnotta was the son of Giovanni Magnotta and Romilda Siconolfi, who moved the family to L'Aquila in 1945 because of work.Prank calls
Magnotta was already famous before the Internet, by word of mouth and through the duplication and the sharing of audio cassettes. Over time Magnotta's fame spread all over Italy. Years after the 1986 to 1987 calls, the recordings were digitized and posted to the internet, which elevated his fame even more. The success on the website was principally due to the rage and the use of blasphemies by Magnotta, and to his "Aquilano dialect", the most important variant of Sabino dialect, considered the standard form of it and which sounds very amusing to internauts. The phone jokes had three topics:- Two fake calls from Telefono Azzurro regarding his daughter and his homosexual relationship with one of his co-workers.
- Some calls from Mr. Bruno, who pretended to be the new partner of his former wife, asking him for money to maintain her.
- The most famous prank was about a washing machine Mario Magnotta had actually bought in 1981. A fake seller, Mr. Bontempi, asked him, 6 years after the sale, to pay an installment of
ITL480,000. This and other calls from other subjects made him think he was being framed in a fraud on the company by Mr. Bontempi. In the last of his calls, Magnotta, in a burst of rage, tells Bontempi the most well-known quote: «Mi iscrivo ai terroristi porco Dio!».