A: Fundraising can mean plenty of things. It can mean washing cars, or selling fresh-squeezed lemonade on the sidewalk. It can even mean guilting friends and family into buying truckloads of cookies for your little girl scout. But rarely does fundraising rely on aural blackmail!
Of course, when a member of the 2004 USA Olympic women’s gymnastics team was in danger of missing the trip, her Missouri community decided to help by any means necessary. Taking a slightly different approach to the art of door-to-door sales, Kansas City’s Mix 93.3 decided to help out little Courtney McCool by threatening to keep playing the Billy Ray Cyrus song “Achy Breaky Heart” over and over until the funds poured in. But is America’s hatred for one country song enough to have them diving for their checkbooks?
Well, yes. After playing the tune just 48 times in a row, the cruel-and-unusual fundraising method helped rake in over $10,000.
Article comments
1 - duane
Excerpt from Sonic Attack by Hawkwind
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These are the first signs of Sonic Attack:
You will notice small objects, such as ornaments, oscillating.
You will notice a vibration in your vertebrae.
You will hear a distant hissing in your ears.
You will feel dizzy.
You will feel the need to vomit.
There will be bleeding from orifices.
There will be an ache in the pelvic region.
You may be subject to fits of hysterical shouting, or even laughter.
These are all sign of imminent Sonic destruction.
Your only real protection is flight.
2 - Mat Brewster
A few years back a local Knoxville, TN radio station played every single version of "rocky top" they could find (lasting several hours) for the opening UT football weekend.