Woman sues over radio station's toy Hummer April Fools' prank

[Kadie]

Posted on Wed, Jul. 13, 2005

Woman sues over radio station's toy Hummer April Fools' prank

TIM MOLLOY

Associated Press


LOS ANGELES - A listener is suing a radio station she said promised her a new Hummer H2 and instead gave her a remote-controlled model as an April Fools' Day prank.

Shannon Castillo, 25, sued Taft radio station KBDS "The Play" 103.9 after it presented her the toy car for winning a weeklong "contest" in which listeners were supposed to track the number of miles two H2s traveled around town. DJs at the station gave regular updates on the vehicles' supposed travels.

She said she hired a baby sitter for her two children 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 remote-controlled toy cars.

"They put us on the radio all week long, just portraying how they couldn't believe that we believed they were actually giving away real cars," said Castillo, a Bakersfield housewife. "I just couldn't believe that they would actually humiliate someone like that."

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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/12124132.htm

http://www.play1039.net/hummer.html#

[Logiola]

1. there was another case like this

except they offered the winner a toyota.. and it turned out to be a toy yoda not sure how the case went

[drm604]

8. It was settled.

She apparently got the car. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/09/toy-yoda.htm

[DS1]

2. I suspect she'd have never been able to afford the taxes and

insurance anyway. I could be wrong, of course, but that's what my gut is telling me.

[mitchtv]

6. Taxes and insurance?

can't pay? that sounds like Arnie's voters. Add "can't drive it" to the mix. and you got half the state.

[Kathleen04]

3. ugh how manY

times do we have to go through this? whY don't the radio stations ever learn? theY could save themselves alot of hassle.

[kick-ass-bob]

5. that's like the fourth one i've seen.

it's pure Bullshit - stations must Be run By people without any Brains.

[Kathleen04]

7. You'd think theY'd tell their

emploYees not to make the same mistakes over and over..

[Kraklen]

4. I want my elephant!

[Mutley]

9. these PeoPle are Purely Pathetic.

you would think they would have learned after the 100 grand incident.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

10. Everyone 'round here has one of these:

So, I got one of these:



I try to be a polite driver SPECIFICALLY 'cause I don't want any rethugs saying, "I saw this guy with an anti-Bush sticker and he was a horrible driver.

[Mutley]

11. I'm the same way with my DU sticker!

I don't want anyone saying, "Those DUers are rude drivers."