6-year-old fakes dad’s death for Hannah Montana tickets - UPDATED
Nice lesson to teach your kid. A 6-year-old girl in Garland, Texas entered an essay contest at Club Libby Lu, penning a tear jerker about her father dying in Iraq, in the hopes of winning four tickets to an ultra-sold-out Hannah Montana tickets. Now, we’ve certainly pulled similar boneheaded stunts when we were kids, but the bad part of this tale was that the girl’s mother was in on it:
The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.
“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”
She had identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq. Caulfield said the mother has admitted to the deception.
Club Libby Lu is apparently mulling over whether or not to take away her tickets. What’s there to think about? They need to rip the tickets right out of her hands, give them to a more deserving kid right in front of her face and send her home crying to her mommy.
UPDATE: Club Libby Lu has decided to take away the tickets from Ceballos’ daughter — YOINK!
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1. hannahmontanaconcert.net
December 30, 2007 @ 3:48 pm
Let’s all find her phone number and prank call the crap out of her!
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“The next best thing to being there!”
2. Chrissybrat
January 1, 2008 @ 6:08 am
Six year olds make up stories, that’s what they do, but no child is going to think of killing off their parent on their own, I deeply believe that this was all the mom, unfortunately this child has a horrible example for a mother if she is being taught it’s okay to lie and cheat to get what you want out of life. I feel most for the child as she is being punished for her mothers lack of principles, I’m sure at this point she is very confused and doesn’t understand what she did wrong since “mommy” is the one who said all of this was okay. Poor little girl - she has all my sympathy.
3. anthony.rigoni
November 21, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
Man. All this and Hannah Montana tickets, too.
4. Copper
February 11, 2009 @ 4:23 am
Huh, I’d just call that ‘creative writing’