[BC] Another dumb contest

[Ernie Belanger]

 PLAY103.9 WIN A HUMMER!!!
On April 1st (Fool's) we ran a contest...'Win A Hummer'.  Do you know how 
many people actually participated thinkin' we were gonna give away an actual 
hummer?  Not on this day!!!



They even have pics of the "giveaway" winners on their site and are bragging 
(see above)http://www.play1039.net/hummer.html#

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From: <WFIFeng at aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 8:51 AM
Subject: [BC] Another dumb contest


> Here we go again!!
>
> http://www.radioink.com/headlineentry.asp?hid=129617&pt=inkheadlines
>
>
> Woman Sues Over Radio Station's Toy Hummer April Fools' Prank
>
> A listener is suing a California radio station she said promised her a new
> Hummer H2 and instead gave her a remote-controlled model as an April 
> Fools'
> Day prank.
>
> Shannon Castillo sued KBDS in Taft, CA, after it presented her the toy car
> for winning a weeklong "contest" in which listeners were supposed to track
> the number of miles two H2s traveled around town.
>
> She said she hired a baby sitter for her two children so she could arrive
> at the station at 6 am on the day of the giveaway, April 1. After she
> waited for two hours, she said, a deejay pulled up in the back of a truck
> and handed her and another listener remote-controlled toy cars.
>
> "They put us on the radio all week long, just portraying how they couldn't
> believe that we believed they were actually giving away real cars," said
> Castillo. "I just couldn't believe that they would actually humiliate
> someone like that."
>
> Willie...
>
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