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#1 2009-10-15 4:48 pm
- radarman
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Woman doesn't love what Toyota did for her...
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8776841
A Los Angeles woman is suing Toyota for $10 million over a marketing campaign that she claims "punked" her into incorrectly believing she was being stalked.
In a lawsuit filed Sept. 28 in Los Angeles Superior Court, Amber Duick claims she had difficulty eating, sleeping and going to work during March and April of last year after she received e-mails for five days from a fictitious man called Sebastian Bowler, from England, who said he was on the run from the law, knew her and where she lived, and was coming to her home to hide from the police.
There was even a fictitious MySpace page reportedly created for Bowler.
Although Bowler did not have Duick's current address, he sent her links to his My Space page as well as links to video clips of him causing trouble all over the country on his way to her former house in Los Angeles, according to the lawsuit.
"Amber mate! Coming 2 Los Angeles. Gonna lay low at your place for a bit till it all blows over," the man wrote in one e-mail.
Epic. Not sure why she didn't call the cops, though.
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#2 2009-10-15 5:57 pm
- Pariah
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Re: Woman doesn't love what Toyota did for her...
Hmmm...she just might have a case there.
"and it's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Barack Obama
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#5 2009-10-15 8:42 pm
- kamizuno
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Re: Woman doesn't love what Toyota did for her...
Bren wrote:
That's a marketing campaign? WOW! Perhaps Toyota would hire me....?
Geez, Iʻm an idiot and even I can see that that ad campaign was a bad idea 
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#6 2009-10-15 8:46 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: Woman doesn't love what Toyota did for her...
A Toyota spokesman says they are not liable for the woman's distress, because 'The person who made this claim specifically opted in, granting her permission to receive campaign emails and other communications from Toyota.'"
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#7 2009-10-15 9:34 pm
Re: Woman doesn't love what Toyota did for her...
Wow. Anybody with half a brain would have been issueing a profuse, public apology. Instead, these idiots are maintaining that it's her fault because she didn't look at insane-stalker e-mails coming from a non-Toyota address, addressed to her personally, and immediately realize they were part of a "clever" marketing gimick?
Damn.
Toyota really should hire me. I can see it now:
Amber Mate, Bren here! Are you at work? Hurry home! I've already let myself in, and have I got a surprise for you! Hint: I'm naked and covered with blood!
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