News & Politics - Women sues Radio Station over "100 Grand"

Lain · 06-24-2005, 02:56 PM

It's strange, humorous, crazy, and one of the reasons why they couldn't just settle this without having to take it to court. Okay...so maybe the woman had the right to take this to court.

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0623051grand1.html

Radio Candy Stunt Not So Sweet
Woman sues when "100 Grand" prize turns out to be chocolate bar

JUNE 23--

A Kentucky woman who thought she won $100,000 in a radio station giveaway is suing for breach of contract after learning that her prize was actually a Nestle's 100 Grand candy bar. According to the below June 22 Circuit Court complaint, Norreasha Gill, 28, claims that she was listening to Lexington's WLTO-FM on the evening of May 25 when host DJ Slick announced that he would award "100 Grand" to the tenth caller. When Gill, the pregnant mother of three children, was that tenth caller, the radio host told her she could pick up her prize the following day at WLTO's studio. She subsequently learned that the contest was a "joke," according to her lawsuit, which names the radio station's parent company, Cumulus Media, as a defendant. Gill's lawsuit seeks the $100,000 prize and additional punitive damages. The 22-year-old DJ Slick, whose real name is Jason Hamman, is no longer working for WLTO, a departure apparently hastened by the May stunt. Hamman, pictured at left, declined to speak about the "100 Grand" incident when contacted by phone today. In a May 25 blog posting promoting that night's giveaway, Hamman wrote that he would be presenting "our loyal listeners with a chance to Win 100 GRAND!!!! It's sitting in a bag to my left ready for someone to take off with just like the Runaway bride!" The tenth caller, he added, would be "100 GRAND RICHER!!! No joke."

Wouldn't it be common sense to tell your fellow listeners that it's the candy bar?

The site to the article also includes court documents (somewhat) and for you MySpace users, a page of his blog talking about the contest in page 4.

TokyoNiGHTS · 06-25-2005, 02:07 AM

The manager of the station apparently offered the woman 5k but she turned it down. I don't think she'll get anything out of this. I've heard of it being done before on other radio stations and people just have to accept that its just a candy bar. Here's the other radio prank of people giving away a 100 grand candy bar

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/100grand.mp3

-Kelly- · 06-26-2005, 03:14 AM

Give me it

Semmer · 06-26-2005, 11:12 PM

I would have been one of those people to just take the candy bar, but I understand being upset if you really did believe that you won 100 Grand. I still would have taken the 5k and been satisfied though.

Lain · 06-27-2005, 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Kelly-

Give me it

Kelly, Kelly. Which 100 grand? The one with the paper or the bar?

-Kelly- · 06-27-2005, 01:01 AM

Chocolate bars ^


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