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Rickroll prank backfires on cops: Amazon Alexa won’t stop playing song

When an officer increased the volume on the device, Alexa couldn’t hear the commands to stop playing “Never Gonna Give You Up”

By Police1 Staff

NISSWA, Minn. — A prank backfired on some night shift officers who attempted to rickroll their sergeant.

Nisswa police wrote on Facebook that officers decided to make Sgt. Rothwell’s brand new Amazon Alexa play Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” on repeat.

According to KARE 11, the officers eventually grew tired of the song and decided there was no way they were going to wait for Rothwell to get into work the following morning to turn it off.

But because one of the officers had bumped up the volume, the device couldn’t hear commands to stop playing the song. The device was locked in Rothwell’s office and the officers couldn’t turn it off, rickrolling themselves.

“On an unrelated note, Sergeant Rothwell, if you’re reading this, we need your office keys,” the department wrote.

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