[UA] Occult Hoaxes (old thread with multiple titles--you all knowwhat I'm talking about)

[James McGraw]

>>> ferguson at beyond.net.au 05/11/01 01:37am >>>
>If you were to say in a public forum that "The first person to bring me a
>copy of the Mummy Video today gets $X", and someone does, then you >owe them
>the money.  Otherwise radio stations could just offer any prize they liked
>in competitions...8)  

IIRC, there was a case in Britain a couple of months or so ago where a woman sued a radio station for saying "the first person to come here wins a car" and it turned out to be a toy car. Or something.

james the cat

"22:00: I am now standing opposite Bruce Forsyth 
shouting 'higher' or 'lower'.  I don't know why.  I do 
know, however, that Armageddon is actually 
a place."
       Paul Tooby


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