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To: Srexley who wrote (174100)	8/24/2001 12:11:33 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

They've hired some guns used to dealing with stink bombs: Meanwhile, check out this press release from Simon Worldwide, which has hired the Democratic Masters of Disaster: "For further information, please contact Chris Lehane or Mark Fabiani." biz.yahoo.com opinionjournal.com My guess is that the company that made the game pieces will be ruined by this crook

To: Srexley who wrote (174100)	8/24/2001 1:39:17 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

While McD's is to be commended for catching the thieves, in doing so they allowed a contest to continue knowing it was rigged, attracting many players who had no chance of winning. Now, in an apparent "apology" for doing so, they are creating a new contest/lottery which, instead of "returning" the revenue gained under false pretenses in a broad way to all comers via some sort of "discount," will attract those same players to feed the coffers yet again so that one single dumb luck bozo can walk away with all those ill-gotten gains in one $10 mill prize. That's marketing for ya.