Wash your mouth out Siri: Boy, 12, told by iPhone 'Shut the f*** up, ugly t***'

A 12-year-old boy got a shock when he tried out the new iPhone 4S in a shop it answered: 'Shut the f*** up, ugly t***.'

Charlie Le Quesne had been trying out the new gadget's Siri voice assistant system in a Tesco branch in Coventry when it came out with the string of profanities.

The obscene response came after he had asked the phone: 'How many people are there in the world.'



Rude response: Charlie Le Quesne was confronted with this response after asking a question of his iPhone 4S

Charlie's horrified mother, Kim, told the Sun she couldn't believe the 'filth' the state-of -the-art smart phone had spouted at her son.

She told the paper: 'I thought I must be hearing things, so we asked again and the same four-letter stuff blared out.'

After they complained to the store manager, apologetic shop workers agreed to unplug the phone and remove it from the display.

Staff believe that pranksters tampered with the phone's set up to make it come out with the foul language.

Siri always refers to the phone user by name, using information kept in the iPhone's contacts system.

Whoever had sabotaged the phone had entered the seven-word phrase as the phone user's name, so that Siri blurted it out whenever it answered a question.

It's possible to reprogram your name in Siri by simply saying, 'Call me...' then a name.



Not happy: Mother Kim, left, with Charlie and Jay, both 10, have been told pranksters have tampered with the phone

But it's unclear how the phone could be made to say something so obscene - the 'voice assistant' usually resists saying anything rude.



Apple was unavailable for comment.



Mrs Le Quesne, a nursery worker, insisted that she couldn't see the funny side.

A Tesco spokesman told the Sun the firm had launched an investigation.