Cheating woman thrashed on radio prank show

February 14, 2007 8:02 AM

A while back there was a post of a radioshow pranking a cheating woman. The host built her up to think she was getting engaged, and then bought her crashing down with the news that her now ex boyfriend had found her out. I cant find it! Help!
posted by lemonfridge to MetaFilter-Related at 8:02 AM (26 comments total)

I don't know what the Mefi post is but you're referring to Galaxy's Danny Dumps and this recent show.
posted by hugsnkisses at 8:50 AM on February 14, 2007

Sounds like its related to this really ugly story.
posted by anastasiav at 8:52 AM on February 14, 2007

(Damn, I'm good today.)
posted by hugsnkisses at 8:55 AM on February 14, 2007

Hideous. Why is the human race so fucking hideous?
posted by loquacious at 10:01 AM on February 14, 2007

anastasiav, wow, that is SUCH an ugly story. It's so sad to read, especially how cocky and careless the writer is.
posted by Milkman Dan at 10:23 AM on February 14, 2007

This is horrible stuff. Ugh.
posted by koeselitz at 10:32 AM on February 14, 2007

Geesh. Happy Valetines Day, everyone!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:10 AM on February 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

Goddamn. That's a regular show? What a bloodsport.
posted by dreamsign at 11:43 AM on February 14, 2007

But what a bloodsport it is!
posted by Hands of Manos at 11:48 AM on February 14, 2007

No kidding. Reminds me of that saying: "The more people I meet, the more I like my dog." I'm going to count my blessings and go give my wife a hug now.
posted by Gamblor at 11:49 AM on February 14, 2007

Gamblor, I was going to make a snarky remark but you know what, Ditto. I've got a wife I can completely trust...and I like my dog :)

cheers
posted by Hands of Manos at 11:56 AM on February 14, 2007

That craigslist story is horrible!
posted by OmieWise at 12:07 PM on February 14, 2007

I dunno. The writer is a scumbag, but I have no sympathy for anyone in that story. The radio show, on the other hand, made a public spectacle of a painful moment -- hell, creating the moment at the same time. You'd have to be made of stone to have no sympathy for that woman.
posted by dreamsign at 12:16 PM on February 14, 2007

Why should I have sympathy for that woman? Are young lovers somehow exempt from cause and effect relationships? Immune from consequences?
posted by sourwookie at 12:44 PM on February 14, 2007

I do agree that the show is a bit of a bloodsport. But so is "To Catch a Predator."
posted by sourwookie at 12:46 PM on February 14, 2007

Absolutely not. It's not being dumped that's the cause for sympathy. Or even dumped harshly. It's having it made into local spectacle that makes it sad.
posted by dreamsign at 12:56 PM on February 14, 2007

If the Craigslist story is true, the woman so richly deserved what she got, I can't do anything but laugh.

Putting it on the radio, though, is probably crossing the line.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 1:02 PM on February 14, 2007

MPDSEA,

Your name is amazing
posted by Hands of Manos at 1:38 PM on February 14, 2007

"Would you feel bad if a child molester got outed on the radio? How 'bout on TV?
posted by phaedon at 2:51 PM on February 14, 2007

The public radio dumping is absolutely awful and ugly. One of the warmer rings of Hell is devoted to people who make their private shit public.

The Craigslist story, on the other hand, doesn't name the woman, who gets exactly she deserves. The writer may be a smug asshole, but I don't see what he did wrong. I feel bad for the kid, though.
posted by Sticherbeast at 4:07 PM on February 14, 2007

anastasiav: Ugly nothing. That story was nothing short of beautiful.
posted by Riemann at 4:52 PM on February 14, 2007

anastasiav, Any man who has had a woman pull the "I think I'm pregnant" or the "we don't need condom I'm sterile" cons knows the feeling that somebody is trying to con you into 2 decades of servitude to support somebody elses kids. (or your kids that you don't want)

That case is why men should have the right of abortion too.
posted by Megafly at 5:17 PM on February 14, 2007

Well certainly you shouldn't need a lawyer to force the determination of paternity. That information should be handed out with every baby alongside the knit toque.

It's part of the skewed view that everything should be in the BEST interests of the child. Not just "take the child's interests into account" or "make the child's interests a priority". So if uncertain paternity leads to fewer single-parent homes, even if people get swindled into life-changing, bankrupting responsibility, so be it says society.
posted by dreamsign at 6:05 PM on February 14, 2007

People often wind up with the partners they deserve. Regardez: Mr. Craigslist. When you're a misogynistic fucksprocket, you're likely to attract your female counterpart, a woman who thinks that men are so stupid they won't ask twice when she tells them that they've inseminated her.

When he decided to have a "casual, pleasant relationship" with this woman and neither asked for or offered any sort of commitment from this, he forfeited his right to get his tighty whiteys in a twist when she slept with someone else.
posted by freshwater_pr0n at 10:55 PM on February 14, 2007

When he decided to have a "casual, pleasant relationship" with this woman and neither asked for or offered any sort of commitment from this, he forfeited his right to get his tighty whiteys in a twist when she slept with someone else.

I don't think it's the "slept with someone else" part that bothers him, (and I'm not entirely sure why a casual realtionship is an excuse for nonconsensual nonmongamy,) it's the "HAW HAW YOU'RE A PAW," gotcha of hooking a guy soley for his wallet. And besides that, the guy could be Hitler, and it still wouldn't be right to the kid, childeren should not be punishments for fucksprockets of any kind.
posted by Snyder at 11:55 PM on February 14, 2007

Late to the thread, but you'd enjoy this:

http://onedimensional.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/dont-use-the-mouth/
posted by BorgLove at 3:09 PM on February 15, 2007