Americans Rush To Humiliate Themselves For Hannah Montana Tickets

noah | October 18, 2007 2:35 am
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Tonight marks the kick-off date of the Hannah Montana tour–the official Hottest Ticket Of The Year, especially among attorney generals–and in their last-minute scramble to prevent their eight-year-olds from having week-long tantrums, parents across America are lining up for the chance to make complete asses out of themselves (and their employees):

With the 54-date “Best of Both Worlds Tour” kicking off in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday, local radio station Y98 offered dads the chance to be their daughter’s hero by putting on heels and racing 50 yards to win four tickets.

“We got a couple of hundred phone calls from people asking questions about where to get high heeled shoes big enough for husbands and about 150 men turned up in high heels,” Mark Edwards, director of programming at Y98, told Reuters.

He said the field for the “high heel derby” was narrowed down to 50 runners and won on Wednesday by Matt Austin, who was competing on behalf of his boss who has a young daughter.

Competing on behalf of his boss? Wow. That guy deserves a raise. But really, Y98 missed out on an amazing cross-promotional opportunity by not forcing the be-heeled men to engage in a line-dancing contest; now that would have stoked a lot of embarrassment in the hearts of all the girls whose fathers were losers!

Parents go to extremes for Hannah Montana tickets [Reuters] [Photo: AP]