Radio Contest Winner Sues Over Candy Bar (not Clear Channel but sounds ..

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Candy-Bar-Lawsuit.html

June 23, 2005
Radio Contest Winner Sues Over Candy Bar
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:38 p.m. ET

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- A woman who won a radio contest that promised the winner ''100 grand'' sued after the station gave her a candy bar -- a Nestle's 100 Grand -- instead of $100,000.

Norreasha Gill filed a complaint Wednesday in Fayette District Court against 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.

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Before her family went to sleep that night, Gill says, she promised her children -- ages 1, 5 and 11 -- that they'd have a minivan, a shopping spree, 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. ''You just don't do that to people.''
....more at link....

[Lerkfish]

1. lovely.

sounds like there will be a legal comeuppance, though.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate topic

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