Posted on 07/14/2005 4:10:52 AM PDT by Cowman
Depends on the joke. Public humiliation along with bait-and-switch is not a joke IMHO.
Boo-hoo, you hurt my feelings. Give me a break and grow up. You sound like all the other idiots out there who are "offended" at everything.
Really? You have no idea what does or does not offend me. Even calling me an idiot on this thread does not offend me.
So, if someone tricks your granny into getting her drive way resurfaced with some black water color, and it's April Fool's Day, she deserves it?
See, I don't see the difference. A con is a con, whether one is being conned out of some bucks, or, one is being conned out of their time. Either way, the con man is trying to enrich himself at someone else's expense...
Says to me they're even smarter! Let this woman pay for the lawyer and have her name in the paper and then once she wins, call the station's general manager: "Yeah, I'm about to meet with a lawyer. Or did you want to deliver my H2 now?" :)
TS
(hey, no snickers from any of you!)
LOL! But you can count on it that she will have a lawyer on the doorstep the next day should this lawsuit win.
April Fools or not, if the station led her to believe they were giving away a real car, she is owed a real car.
Practical jokes are for you and me, not radio station contests.
"22-inch wheels? Sounds like a dimension to me."
- Haven't you ever built a model? The Hummer in question most certainly could have had 20" wheels...just 1:12 or 1:16 scale. Not disclosing the scale of the vehicle is the whole purpose and punch line of the joke.
you would take it as a news bulletin?
No. However, if I were running a contest on a radio that promised something at the end that involved such and I did not honor it, you better believe a lawsuit would be in the offing.
Agreed.
I (A) have a plenty-lively sense of humor, and (B) have never thought that deceiving people to humiliate them -- particuarly publicly -- is funny.
Dan
"Even calling me an idiot on this thread does not offend me."
- I didn't call you an idiot, I suggested that you sound like one of the multitude which I described.
"Depends on the joke. Public humiliation along with bait-and-switch is not a joke IMHO."
- Public Humiliation? Bait & Switch? It was April fools and there was no bait-n-switch. She still got her Hummer, just a wee bit smaller than she anticipated. lol
bump
Your point?
The radio station owes her a car.
Likely not, but if I stand to gain or lose $60,000 based on what you say, you'd better choose your words very precisely.
Just a wee bit smaller than they let on.
Because it's fraud, legally?
This is a sue-happy country, badly in need of tort reform.
But in this case, I'd say she was dead right. There was no "fine print" for her to read (or not read) whereby the radio station has a back-door way out.
If they represented this as a contest to win a Hummer, a Hummer she should get. Unless the station can show that there were enough statements made alluding to the fact that it was a toy - even indirectly - she had every right to assume she was contesting for the real thing. Add to this the fact that radio stations give away large prizes on a somewhat regular basis, you would have no reason to believe this wasn't a real contest.
Pay up, boys.
Because they BROKE THE LAW. If you announce the prize in a contest, then that has to BE the prize. They'll be buying her a Hummer, all right.
Cowman,
Yeah, folks outta lighten up in general. But to be fair it's not even an original bit.
This is about the 344th time something like this has been done by DJs in the last 10 years.
If an employer hired you for $100.00 per hour on April 1, would you be angry when you got your pay check and found out it was an April fools joke, you were only being paid $10.00 per hour. Explained by well it was an april fools joke the secretary and I played.
I think I'd demand my $100.00 per hour.
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