Free Tickets?
The New York "Best Mix" radio station has a bunch of
summertime gimmicks that attempt to boost listenership. One of
them is "Ticket Tuesday", where listeners send in postcards with
the tickets they want, and "Mix 105 takes care of the rest."
The idea is that you select the concert or play or whatever
you want to see, rather than waiting for, say, Metropolitan Opera
tickets to be given away to the tenth caller. Hmmm, right.
Unfortunately for the radio station, one metro-area listener
took the instructions a bit too literally, and when her card was
pulled, the promo department was forced to "take care of" her seven
Manhattan parking tickets.