Have a sob story? Get $50 today.
I have now officially heard it all. From today's Washington Post District Briefing section. Click HERE if you don't believe me.
Entrepreneur Offers Cash for Sob Stories
Hard-luck stories will garner some cold, hard cash this morning.
An anonymous man who calls himself "Bailout Bill" will set up a booth inside Union Station today and give away up to $50,000 in $50 increments to folks who give him their heart-wrenching recession stories.
The man is an Internet entrepreneur who pulled the same publicity stunt in New York this month as a way to promote his video classified ads site, BailoutBooth.com, according to his spokesman, Drew Tybus.
At the Times Square Bailout Booth, New Yorkers who waited in line for hours to tell stories of sick parents, layoffs and foreclosures walked away with cash.
The booth will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and people must be 18 or older and present a photo identification to get money, Tybus said.
The booth will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and people must be 18 or older and present a photo identification to get money, Tybus said.
-- Petula Dvorak