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Floating Cat Prank Has Radio Listeners Outraged
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| April 29, 2003
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Posted on 05/12/2003 3:02:45 PM PDT by green team 1999
Floating Cat Prank Has Radio Listeners Outraged
Animal Protective League, Police Get Involved
POSTED: 4:50 p.m. EDT April 29, 2003
CLEVELAND -- A local radio station wants you to listen, but the stunt some morning disc jockeys pulled has people outraged.
The Animal Protective League responded, and even Cleveland police showed up at the radio station and asked the disc jockeys to stop.
Live On Five Investigator Jodi Brooks reported that 92.3 Extreme Radio said there is an expectation among its listeners to be shocking and to push the envelope, and on Tuesday it started with a contest to win concert tickets.
"We had a bunch of different objects (and were) tying helium balloons to the objects and callers had to guess how many balloons (would) lift the objects off the ground," disc jockey "Rover" said.
The disc jockeys then told listeners they were tying balloons to a cat.
This is what was heard on the radio: "Grab him, grab him! Somebody help me. Oh my God, you guys -- he's flying away! Look out the window. Oh my God, the cat is..."
The drama lasted for 3 ½ hours.
"Where is it? How far off the ground? It's floating away, higher than the parking garage," the disc jockeys said on air.
The APL received more than 100 calls, and police got word, too.
Here is an excerpt from one call to 911: "Hi, I'm listening to the radio, and there's this radio station that had this girl tie balloons to her cat and it's floating around in the air downtown. Is there anything you can do about it? The cat's going to die."
"You want the truth?" Rover said. "No, there was no cat out there. It was all theater of the minds."
On the radio, the prank ended with more creativity.
"Someone out in Medina shot the balloons down," said "Lunchbox," a 92.3 producer. "The cat came to the ground and we recovered it. The cat's OK."
Cleveland police said no charges were filed because the radio station prank did not rise to the level of a crime. Also, as soon as the station was asked to stop, it did.
The APL is now demanding a retraction, admitting the incident was a joke.
The station said it will not offer any type of apology.
The new radio morning team compared themselves to Howard Stern, saying they want a reaction.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cats; floatingcat
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To: Luna
If I was up there, my cats would laugh until they puked.
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:18:03 PM PDT
by
palmer
(ohmygod this bulldozer is like, really heavy?)
To: xrp
Why doesn't President George W Bush do anything about this? what president Bush knew and when
To: xrp
senator Hillary Clinton is demanding a senate investigation on allegations the president did nothing about it
To: green team 1999
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:22:02 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(GOD....Guns.....& Guts -- It takes all three to be FREE)
To: discostu
Are people really that dense? You don't the DJ booth on the exterior of a building and you sure don't open the windows. DJ booths hate noise. Dumb people out there. the power of radio,rush pulled some good pranks before.
To: green team 1999
Sounds like more fun than trolling for cats.
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:24:59 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Men are never so Serious, Thoughtful, and Intent, as when they are at Stool .)
To: green team 1999
Heyyyyyyy.....this gives me an idea on how to keep my neighbors cat out of our garden.
Heeeeere, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty......
To: Delta 21
cat dumb dumb
To: green team 1999
...if there was a cat, they are not going to tell. I hope I don't stay up all night wondering if there really is a cat. I'm not even dsclesyk.
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:31:07 PM PDT
by
unspun
(Merchant Seaman where are you?)
To: tricky_k_1972
"How many balloons would it take to float Hillary ..." None, just a broom.
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:31:52 PM PDT
by
Clive
To: Delta 21
Hmm....
![](http://www.alles.or.jp/~heidel/img/cat-baloon.gif)
And how long have you been waiting for this moment?
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:32:30 PM PDT
by
unspun
(Merchant Seaman where are you?)
To: So Cal Rocket
how many balloons would it take to lift Orson Welles off the ground? Just one: the Hindenburg.
(I know the Hindenburg was a dirigible, but humor allows some license.)
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:32:51 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: green team 1999
Hmmmmmm
Reminds me of the books . . . 101 uses for a dead cat etc.
Nice to know they can be ballast for balloons.
Some dogs find some of the tougher ones nice teething toys, too.
I wonder if the medical profession still has uses for cat gut?
Then there's those fun toys the CATapults. What did they CATapult over castle walls anyway--cats with a small bundle of straw tied to their tales and set aflame? That would have been very enlightening to thatch huts!
Then there's that fun game many dogs love--CATHER BALL--a cat tied to a rope that doesn't quite reach the ground and is tied to the top of a tall pole.
Perhaps there's an Aussie who could answer a curiosity. Do rabbits or cats make better shark bait?
Then there's the head office of a big city fire department--with a hallowed fountain in honor of so many of their calls. It's composed of 9 fire hose nozzels shooting great streams of watter perfectly verticle--at the tops of which are not balls--but 9 very wet tabbys wondering how long their 9 lives will last and whether all of them will be so wet.
And no, none of the above is true--at least--not in my experience. 'Tis just to give the cat lovers a tweak. I actually enjoy cats on occasion--as long as the allergy meds are stoked up.
I've NEVER tied two cats together and tossed them over a clothes line. But I've always had very vivid images of the probable outcome were someone to do such.
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:33:12 PM PDT
by
Quix
To: cinFLA
It's amazing when they gather enough sense to detect which way is up vs down!
Oh, yeah. Wild ones are a lot smarter.
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:34:44 PM PDT
by
Quix
To: unspun
Google is your friend!
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:34:55 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(GOD....Guns.....& Guts -- It takes all three to be FREE)
To: green team 1999
First mice with parachutes, now floating cats. It's only reasonable to expect a dog to be next.
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:35:14 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." GWB 9/20/01)
To: unspun
...at least until Bill Gates buys it and screws it all up!!!
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:35:26 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(GOD....Guns.....& Guts -- It takes all three to be FREE)
To: Delta 21
And how do you know my friends?
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:35:47 PM PDT
by
unspun
(Merchant Seaman where are you?)
To: unspun
I hope I don't stay up all night wondering if there really is a cat the first american cat in space,aaaahhhhh!
To: green team 1999
Some station here in Dallas did that with an inflatable sheep.. Apparently for real. It just sat there and was too heavy.
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posted on
05/12/2003 3:36:43 PM PDT
by
Monty22
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