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Toyota or Toy Yoda?

June 17th, 2008        

Alright this is some old news to share with you guys. In 2001, Jodee Berry of Panama City, Fla., sits with her toy Yoda at her lawyer’s office. Story goes like this, Berry the former Hooters restaurant waitress, was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest. Berry was blindfolded led to the restaurant’s parking lot and received her award, instead of Toyota, she was awarded with Toy Yoda (the little green dude from Star Wars).

She was pissed off, quit her job and sued the owner of the restaurant. A year later, the suit was settled with a disclosed amount of money, which one of the attorneys said would enable her to go to the local car dealership and “pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants.”

[via Snopes]

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