Blog Post #30 Feature Lead Practice #2

 This blog post will consist of my 2nd practice in writing leads for my feature story

Lead Title: Prank caller scams people into thinking they've won a free car

Lead Description: A prank caller has tricked 18 people into thinking a dealership has offered them a free car

Practice Example: 

Someone called 18 people in the city last night. The caller identified himself as the president of Rutherford Ford, Inc., 2780 Doss Boulevard. He told each of the people that they had just won a new car from his dealership. Interviewed by reporters today, most of the people who received the calls said that at first they just couldn't believe it. And they were right. They couldn't. The person who called was a prankster, and Allen Rutherford, president of the dealership, says he has no idea who placed the calls, and that he's spending all his time today trying to explain the situation to those 18 people. "Someone apparently has a sick idea of humor," Rutherford said. After convincing people they had won a new car, the caller asked them to drop by the dealership this morning to pick it up. All 18 were there when the dealership opened its doors at 9 a.m. "I told them we never offered to give away a car," Rutherford said. "One woman told me she couldn't believe she'd won, and then she told me she couldn't believe it when I told her she hadn't. Two other women began to cry, and a man is threatening to sue me."

Feature Lead: "Someone apparently has a sick idea of humor," Allen Rutherford says on his most recent troubling matters. Rutherford is the president of a car dealership and has had to deal with a prank caller spreading a hoax that he's giving away free cars This of course has brought nothing for trouble on Rutherford as people patronize him believing that they've won a free car. "One woman told me she couldn't believe she'd won, and then she told me she couldn't believe it when I told her she hadn't. Two other women began to cry, and a man is threatening to sue me."