Man Mistakenly Thinks He’s Going to Receieve Free Car

 

A rather long title for a disturbing article.  To boil it all down, a huge fan of the Carolina Panthers was “chosen” as the recipient of a “new car” at the last game.  The announcers made it very believable and all, but when the cameras zoomed in on the guy, he got a toy car instead.  He never receieved the real thing.  Fox Sports made a fool out of him on national TV.

The author goes on to vent and rant about how bad this guy has it.  He has a few kids and a beatup Chevy van with 130,000 on it.  However, he also had the money to attend all the Panther’s games, buy other season related stuff, and manufacture a few thousand custom bobble-head dolls based on himself.  Sounds like he could have went out and bought himself a Ford Focus if he wanted to.  So, while it was wrong for Fox Sports to treat a guy like that, I still don’t think that he should get a new car just to make the public happy.

 Read the artcile here.

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  1. Matt September 7th, 2006 at 13:58 | #1

    Just wanted to leave an update that the man did indeed get contacted from Fox Sports and is receiving a free truck. Just goes to show you that a lot of people complaining about something on the internet can be heard.

    http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/15454245.htm

  2. Moofius September 9th, 2006 at 13:08 | #2

    Why do you only have sound on the right channel on the podcast?

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