War is Hell
Maybe my dad didn’t die in Iraq …
People will do crazy things to win concert tickets, though the winner of these contests typically are just the first person to offer to wash someone’s car in their underwear. I don’t know why this is so, though I suspect there is something vaguely dominating/submissive about having a Tri Delt wash some radio goons car in her best Victoria Secret while trying to win backstage passes to My Chemical Romance.
But then there is too far.
Like when a mother not only helps her teenage daughter write a contest essay, but encourages her to invoke the name of her dead father in an attempt to win Miley Cyrus / Hannah Montana tickets.
Texas mom Priscilla Ceballos apologized Friday (January 4) on NBC’s “Today” show for writing an essay falsely claiming the girl’s father had died in Iraq just so the girl could see Hannah (a.k.a. Miley Cyrus) in person. “I just wanted to help my daughter write a compelling story,” she said. The fabricated essay won the contest’s grand prize, which included airfare for four to Albany, New York, and four tickets to a sold-out Hannah Montana concert there, as well as a makeover that included a blond Hannah Montana wig. “Please accept my heartfelt apology and please do not punish my child for my mistake,” Ceballos urged on the show. …
Yea, this was pretty sad, but…
Why not point out that tickets to said concert were up to $250 a pop, and what kind of world do we live in when a children’s musician can command that kind of money?
There’s the real tragic tale.
I actually hadn’t thought of it like that.
Hell, for 250 bucks, you could get a teenage hooker to put on a Hannah Montana wig and perform for you in private.
You make a good point.
I don’t know what that girl told you, Paul, but that shit about the wig is a fucking lie.