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I prank called a country leader and all I got was this lousy fine
Enrique Santos and co-host Joe Ferrero, hosts of a Miami radio show are being fined by the FCC for prank calling Cuban President Fidel Castro for $4000. In response to this decision, the talk show host vow to pay the fine... with 400,000 pennies.
From Yahoo! News- MIAMI (Reuters), "Two Miami radio hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) with a prank call are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt.
Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so he and co-host Joe Ferrero will pay it with 400,000 cents, delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) in Washington.
'We prank-called a head of state in a country that is considered hostile to the United States. He's a violator of human rights and they're fining us $4,000,' Santos said on Tuesday. 'We just find it absurd.'
Santos and Ferrero host 'El Vacilon de la Manana,' or 'The Morning Joker,' show on Spanish-language radio station WXDJ-FM in Miami."
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