There are people who actually get paid to think up stupid ideas like this:
A Los Angeles woman is suing the Sci-Fi Channel because she was a "nonconsenting and unwitting victim" of a hidden camera prank that caused her to believe that she was actually being chased by a space alien on a remote desert road in California. According to a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed this week, Kara Blanc thought she was headed last March to an "exclusive Hollywood industry party" with two actors (who, unbeknownst to Blanc, were working on the reality show "Scare Tactics") when the trio's car appeared to stall. At that point, the two male actors were set upon by an "alien," which caused Blanc to take off "running for her life through a dark, desert canyon area."
The rest of the story is here.
I've seen ads for this, and, at the time, thought that they surely couldn't be setting up unwitting people for some sort of terror version of Candid Camera. But gee, they are!! What stupid idiot at SciFi thought this was a good idea? What if the poor woman had had a gun in her purse and instead of running, shot the 'alien'?? I hope she takes SciFi to the cleaners. Yeah, being terrorized and made to think you're going to die is 'entertainment'.
Morons.
Posted by Ith at February 19, 2003 7:10 AMAnd my manta remains: "And yet they cancelled Farscape...."
Posted by: Julie on February 20, 2003 5:17 AMThe same people running Scifi now are the same people who were at USA when they screwed over Forever Knight, so I wasn't at all surprised at what they did to Farscape. Been there, bought the t shirt! :)
Posted by: Ith on February 20, 2003 8:33 AM