Stone Roses Bar York voice activated sticker prank

The Stone Roses Bar in King Street has taken to social media after a number of stickers reading ‘voice activated’ popped up on machines around the bar including the jukebox, the phone charger machine, and even the hand dryers in the men’s toilets.

Bar manager Joel Langton, 31, said that the mystery started on Saturday morning when the bar’s owner, Joel Bray, came in and spotted the first sticker on the jukebox – with the rest found by staff over the next few days.

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He said: “He put it in our staff group chat and asked if it was meant to be on there for any reason. Later that afternoon when I came into work, I went up to the toilets and noticed the one on the hand dryer as I was going to dry my hands.

“I sent a picture of it to Joel who said it was hilarious and they were going to be all over the pub. So, we had a laugh about it, then yesterday morning, I finally saw the last one on the phone charger machine a few days after. That’s why we did a post on socials to see if anyone owns up to it.”

The special voice activated hand dryer in the men’s toilet (Image: Stone Roses Bar)

Joel said that the staff had found the whole thing and reactions to it to be ‘hilarious’, but (un)fortunately, as far as they were aware, nobody had been fooled by it.

The team at Stone Roses also suspects that the culprits behind the stickers are likely male students, but that if someone is able to prove that they were behind it, they’ve earned a handshake and a pint.

Joel added: “It’s hilarious and we love a harmless prank. It’s a bit annoying that we’ve got to peel them off and get the sticky stuff off, but that’s about it really.

The sticker on the jukebox (Image: Stone Roses Bar)

“We haven’t seen anyone put them up – they’ve done it really secretly. Before we opened yesterday, I had time to skim through the cameras at the jukebox, but you can’t really see when it happened because there’s always someone stood in front of it.

“It’s funny, because we’ve got our own label maker, so we had to check to make sure it was still locked up. Turns our stickers are smaller than the ones that were put up, but it would have been really funny if it had been one of our staff.”