Six Year Old Fakes Dad’s Death In Iraq To Win Hannah Montana Tix
Another proud moment in the history of American parenting…mom’s excuse: “the rules never said the essay had to be truthful”
GARLAND, Texas (AP) — A 6-year-old girl who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay falsely claiming her father died in Iraq isn’t going to the show after all.
The contest’s sponsor, a store chain named Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize Saturday and awarded it to another contestant. It didn’t identify the new 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 of the Chicago-based chain surprised the girl on Friday at a Club Libby Lu store in mall in this Dallas suburb. Club Libby Lu 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 Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.
The opening line in the essay was: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”
The girl’s mother 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. But the mother, Priscilla Ceballos, admitted later Friday that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter’s father were untrue.
“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win. We did whatever we could do to win,” Ceballos said in an interview Friday with KDFW-TV of Dallas. “But when (Caulfield) asked me if this essay is true, I said ‘No, this essay is not true.’”
(AP)
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The stupid woman obviously knows NOTHING about BAD KARMA …
I DO feel sorry for the 6 yr. old who is still VERY young and clueless, and will HOPEFULLY learn from her mother’s selfish fook-up.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:30 pmUh, Pat?
Is the picture at the bottom your submission for “Caption Of The Day”?
Just asking, cause damm thats fertile ground.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:42 pmWhat a dumb and selfish mother. no longer wonder why kids are so bratty. Just look at the lack of ethics from the parents.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:07 pmPOD1 -
It’s not officially, but don’t let me stop you.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:56 pmHer kid is sure going to catch hell in school…And she’ll have to live down the moniker of being a liar. She might want to move to another city and change her name.
Her mother is a dipshit of the highest order. Way to lead by example mom. Yeah, you set a great example for your kid all right.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:35 pmThe dumb bitch. Some people just don’t fooking get it.
December 30th, 2007 at 5:56 ampod1 and Pat:
My submission is:
December 30th, 2007 at 8:09 amHanna-Montanna’s new movie….”Mighty Joe Young”
That child should learn now that it is not good to lie to get what you want.
Of course, considering the complete ass of a mother she has… I doubt she’ll be taught.
December 30th, 2007 at 11:39 am