Radio stunt involving drowning dog causes public panic (didn't do it)

[UrbScotty]

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3714058&nav=0RcddFzN

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24 Hour News 8 was contacted Thursday night by Grand Rapids police after Justice and Jim, DJ's from WKLQ's morning show in Grand Rapids, threatened to drown a dog. Residents jammed 911 phone lines at the Grand Rapids Police Department and flooded 24 Hour News 8 with emails and phone calls Thursday night.

According to a posting by Justice on the morning show's blog , the entire stunt was completely made up, done in an effort to draw attention to the danger of water related deaths to children.

Justice and Jim went to the extreme of never telling people, including 24 Hour News 8 when we asked them, that it was a stunt until after hundreds heard the sounds effects of the dog drowning over the airwaves Friday morning. They then told listeners it was fake.

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Justice and Jim say they are sorry for causing the public panic. But they say they are not sorry for the stunt itself.

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This thread in GD about the stunt made the Greatest Page.

[rumpel]

1. Idiots! Get them off the air.

[gratuitous]

2. I have a solution

I have a solution for folks who misuse our public airwaves in this fashion. I won't go into details, but it involves cement blocks, chains, ropes, and a swimming pool. Oh, and a video camera with a laugh track.

But I don't want to say any more than that; Fox will probably swipe my idea.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Cement shoes

how very fashionable.

[WeRQ4U]

3. The animosity here is curious.

Remember Orson Wells? He got the US to believe that we were being invaded and destroyed by aliens. Now we call him a genius. Just saying.

[sniffa]

5. rats

i was hoping they drowned some cats too.