Re: Clear Channel Suit

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

Cooper are you sure this isn't an April Fool's joke?   Sure sounds like one.
- Aaron

At 04:49 PM 4/1/2002, Cooper Fox wrote:
>I appologize and will paraphrse the story.  Paul E.
>Santodonato, the husband of the victim(Susan
>Santodonato) is sueing Clear Channel and WMRV-FM
>because his wife died of injuries she recieved at a
>hoax appearance of Britney Spears at a NY mall in June
>of 2000.  Britney, who the radio station said was
>supposed to show up was acutally impersonated by a
>young woman named Kiberly Bell.  There was a riot at
>the event and Susan Santodonato was shoved and hit her
>head on a curb.  She passed away the next day.
>
>    The way it looks to me CCU will get away scott free
>because the fact that there was no real britney has no
>bearing on the woman's death.  At the time when the
>woman was shoved and fell people still believed that
>they were actually seeing Britney and not an
>impersonator.  It wasn't until later that it was
>determined and announced that she was just an
>impersonator.  Besides, would it have made her death
>less tragic if Britney had really been there?

____________________________________________
Aaron "Bishop" Read     aread@speakeasy.net
FriedBagels.com Technical Consulting
Broadcast Signal Lab / Medfield, MA