Chris Ferry’s sons,

decided on a new approach,

for their Fathers 62nd birthday, instead of going to a restaurant and announcing it was Dad's birthday, and watching him embarrassingly be given a birthday cake by the restaurant, they decided to put a billboard up, inviting the local community to call their Dad and wish him all the best, what could possibly go wrong? well for one thing they had forgotten about the power of the Internet, the billboard went up on March 6, and by March 12, Chris Ferry had already received well over 15,000 birthday calls and texts from people in countries like the Philippines, Kenya, Luxembourg, Ireland, Guatemala, Nepal and Australia, He actually tried to take every call and answer every text at first, but he eventually gave up and changed his voice mail to “thank you for calling to wish me a happy birthday, I really, very much appreciate it…” Chris commented, “I can see my texts go from 10 or 20 to over 600 in a matter of minutes,” Ferry told reporters, adding that he has been unable to use his phone normally ever since the craziness began,

Chris learned about his sons’ prank last Thursday, when he got a call from a man named Nick who wanted to wish him a happy birthday. “How do you know it’s my birthday coming up?” Ferry asked, to which the man responded “I saw it on a billboard”, (My dad) drove immediately to the sign and took a picture with it,” one of Ferry’s sons told CNN, considering that Chris’s 62nd birthday isn’t until March 16, he’ll probably get a few thousand more calls until then, but the really bad news is that the billboard isn’t coming down until April, so the madness isn’t likely to stop anytime soon, still, he’s laughing about it, so his sons have suggested that next year they may rent an even larger billboard, and, this is my idea, better still put it on a really busy road, with neon lights, now that would get some attention!