Girl Lies On Essay To Get Hannah Montana Tickets

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From TMZ.com:
A 6-year-old girl won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert in New York with an essay that claimed her "daddy died this year in Iraq." Heartbreaking? Yes. True? No.

Priscilla Ceballos, the mother of the young girl, had told the company sponsoring the contest that the girl's father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq. When the spokesman asked the girl's mom if the story was true, the mother said no. God bless America.

"We never said this was a true story," Ceballos told FOX 4 in Dallas. "We do essays all the time. My daughter does essays at school all the time. It never did say it had to be true, but [the contest organizer] said, 'That's what we expected.'" Duh!

Club Libby Lu, the company behind the contest, has not yet made a decision as to whether the girl will get to keep the tickets.
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http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/29/hannah-montana-contest-winner-a-fake

This Bitch is teaching her daughter to lie in order to get sympathy from the essay readers to get the tickets. I hope that this Bitch gets her ass kicked for what she did. The girl lied by saying that her dad died in Iraq and her dad was alive but in another state. Sorry for the cussing, but it is parents like her that tick me off.
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Though it does seem immoral, as long as the contest has not specifically stated that she was supposed to write a truthful essay, she has every right to those tickets, and if they deny her them, she could legally sue them. However, I don't see why anyone would sue anyone for Hannah Montana tickets. That show is really stupid. :-/
 
Hey, it never said it had to be true. They can't condemn somebody for "breaking" non-existant rules. The family NEVER lied about anything, they came out with the truth immediately when questioned.
 
I imagine in the disclaimer that the judges were given the legal prerogative to accept or deny essays on whatever criteria they felt fit, including the essay's veracity.
 
Bikes should now have a label that says, "Caution: Goes fast if going downhill"

Well knowing how America is these days, if its not on a disclaimer you're not guilty :D
 
I don't know which is worse,

The fact that a mother lied about her husband or the fact that a measely two paragraph essay won the contest. 0_0


And if you're not being serious with your contest writing, why bother giving the tickets to them anyway. I say take them back, they don't deserve it.

I'd imagine the father must be pissed right about now. =/
 
I just don't understand the motivation for that mom to help her daughter "Cheat" to win the tickets. Those aren't the best things to be teaching a six year old.
 
Dr. Peppa said:
I just don't understand the motivation for that mom to help her daughter "Cheat" to win the tickets. Those aren't the best things to be teaching a six year old.
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It's not cheating, but it's not very moral either.
 
They teach how to lie in order to get a higher grade on standerdized tests in my Florida's schools . .
 
Update from the AP:
Hannah Montana Ticket Winner Loses Prize

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.'"

The Associated Press was unable to find a phone number for Ceballos on Saturday.

Link:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hPtRDIoBHl1UDi59dH29gBktIjLAD8TRARJ80

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A girl lied about something like that over Hannah Montana tickets.

Shocking.

I can't beleive it made news like this. Talk to any girl between 7 and 12 who has ever heard of Hannah montana. Odds are, major score of fans. Now ask them if they'd lie about something like that to get tickets. Factor in the popularity and the "retailers" who hack their way into tickets and sel them for jacked up profit for some quick money. There's no doubt that the number would be higher then you'd think!

A considerable nubmer of modern-day people are highly depraved.

Morrals have totally lost their meaning. I'm not pinpointing it, but it's more like a movement then the occasional odd-one-out.

ANd make one little girl's holiday extra special? Give me a break! The odds are bad, but there's still a chance. Not getting the tickets probably made hundreds, if not thousands of kids upset. Give out more then one set of tickets if you give out any.
 
This is America. What other country teaches thier kids to lie at 6?
 
Aipom Spivey said:
This is America. What other country teaches thier kids to lie at 6?
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It's not just America where the parents teach their kids to do bad things, a few years ago, it was caught on a surveillance camera in France that the kids were used to steal from the store as the parents distracted the shopkeeper. It doesn't matter where you live, you'll encounter people with bad morality.

Pianoplaynfool said:
Hey, it never said it had to be true. They can't condemn somebody for "breaking" non-existant rules. The family NEVER lied about anything, they came out with the truth immediately when questioned.
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It's an essay, not a story, if it was a story, there'd be no lying in it at all, but if it's an essay, it's expected to be history or biography. Since the father didn't even die, it's a lie.
 
I don't know, it's underhanded to play on people's emotions with war, but the girl is still in the right. I mean take it this way: Nintendo is holding a pokemon contest, the winner who draws the best monster gets theirs put in the game... well they pick the winner and low and behold the winner is from the UK. The picture is amazing, but Nintendo not asking for a specific country and making it an online contest now goes "Uh-oh... we were looking for Americans only.."

I don't think that's fair. When it comes to contests, you have to fully explain the rules, as with any game. This isn't some case of people taking advantage by faking ignorance.
 
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