NEWS: You Can Shove Your Fucking Candy Bar . . .

CULTURE: You Can Shove Your Fucking Candy Bar . . .

A radio competion promised "100 grand" to the winner. Norreasha Gill won by listening to the station for a couple of hours and being the tenth person to call in. She is sueing the station because the "100 grand" isn't cash, it's a Nestle candy bar.

The radio station have offered her $5000. She wants the rest, and thinks that she has a case.

I hope the radio station gives her a substantial amount of cash.

A hahahahahahahahaahahaa! Oh man. That is priceless. I think my soul just went and hid in a corner.

I wish I could have seen her face when she found out she got fucked over by a lame joke.
I'm a terrible person, but that would have made me feel good for an hour or two.

reminds me of the "toy yoda" (toyota) incident.

This is just a bad week to be a DJ, isn't it?

Damn beat me to it!

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Her fault for assuming the station meant cash. It's a dirty trick and all, and I probably would have fallen for it too, but still, unless they said specifically "One hundred thousand dollars", I say she's shit out of luck.

And the real lessons of the story, lost on her it seems, is that you don't make promises without knowing for certain you can back it up. (This is the same lesson people should learn before accepting credit cards/loans).

Another lesson being that nothing in life is actually free.

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Gimme a break. If someone tells you won a contest for "a hundred grand", you aren't going to think you won a fucking candy bar.

i hope that lady wins her case.

agreed.

If she wins, I'll be shaking my head in disgust. While I think it might be nice to live in a world without tricksters, I do not believe it is realistic. Sometimes you just have to accept that you got tricked, put it on the list of "life experiences", and move on.

If she loses, some good will still come out of it. She, and hopefully her children, will have learned not to believe everything they are told. A very valuable lesson.

they did this same sort of thing to me back when i was in middle school.

i dont remember exactly what, but it was something for PE and whoever won would get 'a hundred grand'.

*shrug* shit happens and then you die.

What part of "making a false or misleading claim in advertising or a contest is ILLEGAL" did you not understand?

Dude, I said I probably would have fallen for it too. Actually,I know I would have.

Reminds me of a few weeks ago here, a club listed Guns and Roses as an act for one weekend night. I wonder if that club is still there... I saw it in the paper, and was caught off guard by it myself, and didn't realize it until a station here was talking about it a few days before the supposed show. One of the DJ's caught that it was G-A-R, not G-N-R.

I say the Toy Yoda lady has no case either. If the DJ's didn't specifically say it was a car, or say it was a Camry, Celica, or whatever else, she's S.O.L. too. It's shitty, yes, but it's not against those FCC regulations, nor is it illegal.

Gee, with a keen legal mind like that I expect you'll be on the short list when Rehnquist retires.

I guess I don't agree with the law as written, if giving a person exactly what was described in the contest rules is considered misleading.

I really don't feel sorry for grown adults who still believe that $100,000 might fall in to their lap for doing just about nothing. Hey, it could happen, but don't spend it til you have it.

The toy yoda lady wound up picking out a toyota of her choice.

Except that it is against FCC regulations and it is illegal. Your law degree is from where exactly?

Well, I could spent about two hours explaining what thats a rather juvenile analysis, but lest just stick to the most important one. They have defrauded not just the winner, but their entire audience. This isn't about one person, this is about every single person who stayed listening to the station who wouldn't have were it not for the fraudulent and deceitful inducement. And what about the radio station's competitors losing market share and revenue?

The contest rules are not fucking available, this is deliberate. There is no way of checking the legal offer against the plain English meaning of the statement. This is fucking fraud.

The National School of Common Sense. The station could have said "One Thousand Bucks", and given the woman 1000 male deer, and it would have been accurate to the description. Now, in all honesty, I didn't read the linked article, and if they did specify a cash prize, then fuck them for screwing her over like that. I agree with you that it was an asshole thing to do, but I also believe she got what was advertised. I've listened closely to a few Clear Channel nationwide contests lately (Not out of choice mind you, my coworkers listen to that shit), and they make quite a point to a) define the prize as being cash, and b) make it fully aware theres no way in hell you're going to win. They bait you by saying "gauranteed chance". Of course you have a "gauranteed chance" every Tom Dick and Harry out there has the same "gauranteed chance" just by having a pulse. But do one of you guys want to calculate the odds of the 25th nationwide caller having a GA drivers license number that matches the number they have? Because I sure as hell don't want to work that math. Everyone with the appropriate state I.D. has the "gauranteed chance" to win, but they won't "win".

But yeah, it's shitty radio, I agree with you there.