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Girl won Hannah Montana tickets with fake essay describing dad's death in Iraq
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by ricknight | December 29, 2007 at 07:55 am
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An essay that won a 6-year-old Texas girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."While gripping, it was not true, and now the girl may lose her tickets.
Her mom acknowledged to contest organizers the claim was made up specifically to win the contest.
The sponsor of the contest was Club Libby Lu, a Chicago-based store that sells clothes, accessories and games for young girls.
The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out concert on Jan. 9.
The mother had told company officials that the girl's father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
"We did the essay and that's what we did to win," Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. "We did whatever we could do to win."
Materialism run amok.... If lying and doing "whatever we need to do to win" is taught to our 6 year olds, then the terrorists won't beat us, we will have destroyed ourselves from within.
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ricknight
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
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at 08:21 on December 29th, 2007
Ricknight, I agree this is materialism run amok.
at 09:14 on December 29th, 2007
It's a really crappy example to set for a kid, I think.
at 09:47 on December 29th, 2007
ricknight, Good stuff.
Me Thinks Mommy is a lil Titched in the Haid.
at 16:10 on December 29th, 2007
Well, you gotta admit one thing, the girl's style was clean and to the point. She has already authenticated herself as a liar at the tender age of six. With Mom's continued mentoring, she is certain to go far in this world.
at 16:44 on December 29th, 2007
ricknight, that poor kid. She's now going to see that the truth only means she loses out. Mom should be charged with something -- maybe 30 days of mouth washing with soap. Thanks for bringing this to us.