She told the Sun (I know, I know): "I thought I must be hearing things. But when they asked again "the same four-letter stuff blared out." CNET's Chris Matyszczyk offered a tongue-in-cheek explanation for the outburst: that Siri had lost patience answering mundane questions and had "finally lost her temper." According to the store's managers, however, Siri may have been tricked by a group of pranksters into thinking the rude phrase was in fact the name of its owner. However, the staff at Tesco reportedly said that some amusing individual had entered this rather inelegant phrase as the user's name in the set-up instructions. Why Siri would answer the question of how many people are in the world with the phone owner's name, however, is another question. Although at the time an Apple spokesperson told The New York Times, "These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone.
– An eager 12-year-old experienced the techno-shock of a lifetime when Apple's Siri voice system told him to "shut the f*** up" the other day. His question: "How many people are there in the world?" The boy, Charlie Le Quesne, had grabbed a demo iPhone while shopping with his mom in Coventry, England. The phone even cursed him a second time when he posed the question again, the Huffington Post reports via the Sun. "I thought I must be hearing things," his mother said. Why the bad attitude? Maybe Siri "finally lost her temper," muses Chris Matyszczyk on CNET. A more likely explanation was offered by store managers: that a prankster had tricked the phone into thinking the insult was the user's name. Siri has been known to sport a dry sense of humor, however. One user who told it "I need to hide a body" was given a list of grisly locales, including reservoirs, swamps, and metal foundries, TheVerge reports. (See Apple's response to Siri's "blind spot" on abortion queries.)