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6/23 Thought you won 100 grand but got a Nestle 100 Grand Bar instead?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/candy_bar_lawsuit
I wonder if she is related to the women who filed the Toyota
Toy Yoda lawsuit:
http://www.sptimes.com/News/072801/State/Dream_car_is_a__toy_Y.shtml
\_ So who is right in the eye of the court? The radio station that
deceived the woman, or the woman too stupid and gullible? |
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| news.yahoo.com/s/ap/candy_bar_lawsuit Norreasha Gill filed a complaint Wednesday in Fayette District Court agai nst Atlanta-based Cumulus Media, which owns WLTO-FM in Lexington. Gill, 28, says the station and its parent company breached a contract to pay $ 100,000 to the contest winner. Night host DJ Slick sponsored the station's contest to "win 100 grand," G ill said in the lawsuit. Gill won by listening to the radio show for sev eral hours and being the 10th caller at a specified time. She went to the radio station the next morning to pick up her prize, but was asked to return later. When she got home, she found that the station manager had left a message explaining she had won a 100 Grand candy bar , not money. "Nobody would watch and listen for two hours for a candy bar." DJ Slick did not return an e-mail from the Herald-Leader, but he said on his Web site that he had left his job. WLTO and Cumulus declined to comm ent, identify DJ Slick by his given name or say whether he was fired. FCC regulations say contest descriptions can't be false or deceptive and that stations must conduct contests as advertised. Stations in two other sta tes have been fined for contests that told listeners they'd won cash pri zes without specifying they were in the Italian or Turkish lira, not the US dollar. Before her family went to sleep that night, Gill says, she promised her c hildren ages 1, 5 and 11 that they'd have a minivan, a shopping spre e, a savings account and a home with a back yard. "What hurts me is they were going to get me in front of my children, all dressed up, and hand me a candy bar, after all those promises I made to them," she told the Lexington Herald-Leader. A prank in Florida led to a similar lawsuit that was settled in 2002. A f ormer waitress claimed Hooters promised to award her a new Toyota car but instead gave her a toy Yoda. The informati on contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewr itten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associ ated Press. |
| www.sptimes.com/News/072801/State/Dream_car_is_a__toy_Y.shtml Jodee Berry won a drawing at the Hooters in Panama City Beach, where she used to work. She says she was blindfolded and led to the parking lot. Petersburg Times, published July 28, 2001 PANAMA CITY, Fla. A former Hooters waitress has sued the restaurant where she worked, sayin g she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest. Instead she won a new toy Yoda -- the little green Jedi master from Star Wars. Jodee Berry, 26, then a waitress at the Hooters in Panama City Beach, won a contest to see who could sell the most beer in April. Manager Jared Blair told waitresses that the contest was a regional promo tion, according to the lawsuit, and that the top 10 waitresses from each restaurant would be entered in a drawing. The person whose name was dra wn would win a "new Toyota automobile," the lawsuit says Blair told them . "I couldn't believe that out of all the girls who were entered, I was the winner," Berry said. She was blindfolded and led to the restaurant parking lot. When the blind fold was removed, Berry wasn't looking at a new car, but a Yoda doll. Berry said she looked beyond the $40 toy, hoping to see the car driving a round the corner. "A corporation can't lead their employees on like that," Berry said. She sued Gulf Coast Wings, owners of the restaurant, alleging breach of c ontract and fraudulent misrepresentation. She is seeking as compensation , the cost of a new Toyota -- the car. Her lawyer, Stephen West of Pensacola, said he was also looking at false advertising statutes. West said one other Hooters waitress verified Berry's story. Berry said Blair knowingly misled them through the course of the contest by telling the employees he didn't know what kind of Toyota it would be -- whether a car, truck or van. The suit contends that he also told them the winner would be responsible for the tax on the new automobile. West said those statements would go a long way toward defeating any defen se argument that Berry misunderstood Blair. The restaurant regularly had contests where management would come through with the promised prize, said Berry, who worked at Hooters for about a year before quitting. Stuart Houston, a spokesman for the company, said it had not been served with the lawsuit yet and he would not comment. |