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July 15, 2005
Frivolous lawsuit of the day
From the Sun-Times:
Radio station's April Fool's prank leads to Hummer of a lawsuit
July 15, 2005
LOS ANGELES -- Shannon Castillo was less than pleased when she took possession of the new Hummer she won in a radio contest.
Instead of the muscular Hummer H2 vehicle she expected, Castillo got a radio-controlled toy model.
It was an April Fool's Day prank.
''I just couldn't believe that they would actually humiliate someone like that,'' Castillo said.
Castillo, 25, has sued radio station KBDS-FM over the 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 so she could arrive at the station at 6 a.m. on the day of the giveaway, April 1. After she waited for two hours, she said, a DJ pulled up in the back of a truck and handed her and another listener the toys.
The station did not return a call for comment Wednesday.
The lawsuit, filed June 21, seeks $60,000 -- about the cost of a real H2.
Do you want some cheese to go with that whine?
Radio station: bunch of idiots. But lawsuit worthy? Don't know about that. But I think she should have gotten some other sort of prize, too. I mean, asking somebody to come to the radio station at 6 am is pretty weak.
Posted by oz115 at July 15, 2005 07:46 AM