Posted on 06/23/2005 10:41:16 AM PDT by rawhide
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 Lexington's 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. The 22-year-old DJ Slick, whose real name is Jason Hamman, is no longer working for WLTO, a departure apparently hastened by the May stunt. Hamman, pictured at left, declined to speak about the "100 Grand" incident when contacted by phone today. In a May 25 blog posting promoting that night's giveaway, Hamman wrote that he would be presenting "our loyal listeners with a chance to Win 100 GRAND!!!! It's sitting in a bag to my left ready for someone to take off with just like the Runaway bride!" The tenth caller, he added, would be "100 GRAND RICHER!!! No joke."
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Where's my Toy Yoda!
Or the KEYS to a new car?
There's a Darwin Award story in here somewhere!
(snickers)
Well its a pretty stupid joke but i dont see her winning unless that last part about being "richer" comes back to haunt him/them...
my guess is they give her 40 thou and she goes away
Apparently, they misheard me.
This has been done before:
http://www.nearlygood.com/audio/100grand.html
She could have had a PayDay.
P.S.: Never trust a DJ who goes by the name of "Slick". You are just asking for trouble.
Duplicate thread...
All they need is a jury who wants to wipe the smile off of the smug faces of those punk DJs. Although her own greed should have taught her a lesson, I think it would be all too easy to have the radio station find itself $100K in debt after going to court.
Except of course, for the one third that will go to her lawyer and the additional percent that the IRS will reap.
Did she eat the evidence in frustration?
After today's USSC ruling regarding private property, absolutely no telling where this one ends up.
As a woman she probably misunderstood the man from Mars.
When its finally awarded to him, it turns out to be her pet parrot, named naturally, "Fortune".
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) -- A former waitress has settled her lawsuit against Hooters, the restaurant that gave her a toy Yoda doll instead of the Toyota she thought she'd won.
Jodee Berry, 27, won a beer sales contest last May at the Panama City Beach Hooters. She believed she had won a new Toyota and happily was escorted to the restaurant's parking lot in a blindfold.
But when the blindfold was removed, she found she had won a new toy Yoda -- the little green character from the "Star Wars" movies.
David Noll, her attorney, said Wednesday that he could not disclose the settlement's details, although he said Berry can now go to a local car dealership and "pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants."
After the stunt, Berry quit the restaurant and filed a lawsuit against Gulf Coast Wings, Inc., the restaurant's corporate owner, alleging breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation.
The restaurant's manager, Jared Blair, has said the whole contest was an April Fools' joke.
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