Phantom Blooper
01-02-08, 05:12 PM
Prize withdrawn from girl whose essay was untrue
03:26 PM CST on Saturday, December 29, 2007
Associated Press
GARLAND -- A 6-year-old girl who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay that falsely claimed her father died in Iraq won't be going to the show after all.
The contest's sponsor, Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize on Saturday and awarded it to another unnamed winner.
"With this decision, we hope to revive the intended spirit of the contest, which was designed to make a little girl's holidays extra special," Club Libby Lu chief executive Mary Drolet said in a statement Saturday.
Officials with the Chicago-based chain surprised the girl on Friday at a Club Libby Lu store in a suburban Dallas mall. Club Libby Lu sells clothes, accessories and games for young girls.
The girl won a makeover that included a blond Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.
The opening line in the essay was: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."
But the girl's mother, Priscilla Ceballos, admitted later Friday that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter's father were untrue.
Ceballos had told Club Libby Lu officials that the girl's father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.
She identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq.
The Associated Press was unable to find a phone number for Ceballos on Saturday.
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To use a fake death for personal gain is just as bad IMO as a poser wearing medals and awards that are not rated. It is a damn shame for the child to have a parent like this! Also the law should charge her to the full extent...if for nothing else just for being an azzhole in the gene pool!
And by the way......I don't have the foggiest notion who "Hanna Montana" is, and I think I don't want to know.
Is she related to Claudia Connecticut or maybe Mabel Massachusetts?
I do remember a girl named Wilma Wisconsin back in high school, but that was a long time ago. I think she went to the prom with a dork from New York, but I can't remember his first name, might have been Mork, but then again, it seems to me Mork went with Mindy. Mindy was from the windy city.......TMI! :beer:
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03:26 PM CST on Saturday, December 29, 2007
Associated Press
GARLAND -- A 6-year-old girl who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay that falsely claimed her father died in Iraq won't be going to the show after all.
The contest's sponsor, Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize on Saturday and awarded it to another unnamed winner.
"With this decision, we hope to revive the intended spirit of the contest, which was designed to make a little girl's holidays extra special," Club Libby Lu chief executive Mary Drolet said in a statement Saturday.
Officials with the Chicago-based chain surprised the girl on Friday at a Club Libby Lu store in a suburban Dallas mall. Club Libby Lu sells clothes, accessories and games for young girls.
The girl won a makeover that included a blond Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.
The opening line in the essay was: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."
But the girl's mother, Priscilla Ceballos, admitted later Friday that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter's father were untrue.
Ceballos had told Club Libby Lu officials that the girl's father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.
She identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq.
The Associated Press was unable to find a phone number for Ceballos on Saturday.
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To use a fake death for personal gain is just as bad IMO as a poser wearing medals and awards that are not rated. It is a damn shame for the child to have a parent like this! Also the law should charge her to the full extent...if for nothing else just for being an azzhole in the gene pool!
And by the way......I don't have the foggiest notion who "Hanna Montana" is, and I think I don't want to know.
Is she related to Claudia Connecticut or maybe Mabel Massachusetts?
I do remember a girl named Wilma Wisconsin back in high school, but that was a long time ago. I think she went to the prom with a dork from New York, but I can't remember his first name, might have been Mork, but then again, it seems to me Mork went with Mindy. Mindy was from the windy city.......TMI! :beer:
:evilgrin: