5/22/2004: Little Miss Hooters
 

http://cellar.org/2004/apocalypsesign1.jpg

Presented WITH bias, and with intent to enflame is this finding from Stacy Tabb (Sekimori).

I am pretty hard to shock, and would let consenting adults do pretty much whatever they want, and get pretty tired of the "anything for the children" drone in society, but this is where it goes too far: this "Little Miss Hooters" contest was intended for 5 and unders, to be dressed in the same costume as their adult-ish Hooters waitresses, including spandex shorts and tied-up T-shirt.

(It was cancelled by Hooters national office - it was the work of a lone manager.)

do you remember the contest they had where they tricked the contestants into thinking they were giving some cool prize like anew car, but through a nasty play on words, they......oh yeah!

they offered a new toyota...but when the girl won, they gave her a new toy yoda. too funny....anyone know if they had to give her a toyota?

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Waitaminnit ... Hooters has ethical standards? That's more a sign of the coming apocalypse than the contest!

please. The only difference between Hooter's and Chili's is that Hooter's is public with their hiring practices.

-sm

They could win the JonBenet Ramsey trophy.:(

Any activity that keeps kids off drugs is probably OK.

But this isn't one of them.

To the contrary, mandatory Prozac and Ritalin for all.:)

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Darn right they do. You don't do something like this without arranging for a cut for upper management.

http://www.bonitadailynews.com/01/07...ics/29yoda.JPG

Hooters settled and she got enough to buy a real nice Toyota

nice. serves em right. thanks beestie

good work. you have been promoted to junior detective. See ms. green for you new badge and firearm

Some waitresses simply have NO sense of humour! :D

Brian

It's a good thing that size matters not, because that light saber is as big as Yoda!

I was resisting the urge to speculate whether it was a lightsaber or... well... you know...

"Little Hooters"...how dumb.

And that Toyota gag..even dumber. :mad:

That is one skanky looking waitress, even for Hooters ...

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV, but unless the prize conditions were put in writing as "Toyota" instead of ToyYoda, her misunderstanding/misinterpretation should not have constituted damages. If the restaurant manager, however, implied that an automotive prize was involved, yeah, I'd agree that she should win a settlement, but no more than attorney's fees, court costs, and the price of a new vehicle, base model. Winner to pay applicable taxes, titles, transfers, and insurance, just like on a game show.

Originally posted by wolf Regarding the waitress' skankage quotient, I was thinking the same thing and wondered how she won the contest (selling the most beer) in the first place.

Regarding the legal problem, I have two guesses. One is that the manager was probably aware that the waitresses thought the prize was a car and did not correct the mis-impression and therefore took some responsibility for it. Guess two is the ever-present threat of a sympathetic jury and bad publicity. Never underestimate the power of a greedy lawyer and 12 really stupid people.

A couple of things I just noticed about this pic:

After the word CONTEST, there are the letters 'NS'. I would surmise this stands for 'Non-Smoking', inasmuch as this is an event geared toward the kids, as it were.

Also, the contest is being held at 12:30 on a Sunday afternoon, presumably to give the pole-dancers-in-training time to rush home from church and change into their skimpy shorts and tie-up tees.

Speaking of hot, blond pole dancers.:)

Oh.....My!!!! :D ;) HOW PRECIOUS!!!

Mommy, I want one of those!!! :haha:

It's a dog-monkey! Or, to coin a term, a donkey!

Of course it's a donkey. You don't think a blonde pole dancer would be republican, do you? :)

Rookie. Forgot to wear something to tuck the Scooby Snacks in.

Yeah, I personally have never understood the proper application of "skanky" either.

More Hooters-related info: From today's Sunday NY Times Magazine article on teenage dating (or lack thereof):

i guess the same thing can be said about her, er, um, qualifications to be a hooters girl.

sorry, to all. i couldn't help it.

I read that one as well.

Depressing really.

Yeah, it was, but I wasn't entirely comfortable with the fact that any problems with "the old ways" were conveniently swept under the rug.

If it could be reasonably proved that the manager made every effort to have her believe that the prize was a Toyota, and leading her out to the parking lot goes a long way to show that that was the case, then IMO she had a case. The fact that it was a regional sales contest, with presumably tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, would have made the prize of a car reasonable. Certainly, a $10 toy would be considered substandard compensation.

Working class people have a lot of sympathy for this kind of stuff. While jokes and other behavior may be seen as harmless, screwing around with how people are compensated, especially in the form of a cruel prank, would not be tolerated.

While it was not sexual harrassment, it was certainly some form of cruel bullying and that is all that it would take for a jury.