Thursday, June 23, 2005

World In State of Chassis

From an article at thesmokinggun.com.

Radio Candy Stunt Not So Sweet

Woman sues when "100 Grand" prize [offered by a radio host named Slick - impossible to make this stuff up] turns out to be chocolate bar

JUNE 23--A Kentucky woman who thought she won $100,000 in a radio station giveaway is suing for breach of contract after learning that her prize was actually a Nestle's 100 Grand candy bar. According to the below June 22 Circuit Court complaint, Norreasha Gill, 28, claims that she was listening to WLTO-FM on the evening of May 25 when host DJ Slick announced that he would award "100 Grand" to the tenth caller. When Gill, the pregnant mother of three children, was that tenth caller, the radio host told her she could pick up her prize the following day at WLTO's studio. She subsequently learned that the contest was a "joke," according to her lawsuit, which names the radio station's parent company, Cumulus Media, as a defendant. Gill's lawsuit seeks the $100,000 prize and additional punitive damages. (3 pages)


"It makes no sense to be Irish unless you know that the world will break your heart."
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (on hearing of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

"The whole world is in a terrible state of chassis."
-- Sean O'Casey (words of the second title character in "Juno and Her Paycock")