Is There Anything Some People Won't Do?

Nowadays it seems not, and in this particular case it's all for a set of Hanna Montana tickets, the new gold and ready made offering to the American children today by the music industry who is actually the fine daughter of world renowned musician Billy Ray Cyrus that is all the rage among youngsters today.

Take a look here at what lengths one Texas mother (if she can even be called that) went to to nab tickets for her and her 6 year old daughter in an essay contest being run by a children's clothing outlet:

Hannah Montana essay winner a fake -

chicagotribune.com: "GARLAND, Texas - An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: 'My daddy died this year in Iraq.'

While gripping, it wasn't true -- and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie.

The sponsor of the contest was Club Libby Lu, a Chicago-based store that sells clothes, accessories and games intended for young girls."The saga began Friday with company officials surprising the girl at a Club Libby Lu at a mall in suburban Garland, about 20 miles northeast of Dallas. The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.

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.

"We regret that the original intent of the contest, which was to make a little girl's holiday extra special, has not been realized in the way we anticipated," said Mary Drolet, the CEO of Club Libby Lu.

Drolet said the company is reviewing the matter, and is considering taking away the girl's tickets.

Great mothering there and good job Mom (not), teaching your six year old that "anything, and I mean anything goes" when trying to get what one wants is the lesson I see here and it's not a good one, yet all too familiar in today's American society sadly.

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