The New York Best Mix radio station has a bunch of summertime gimmicks
that attempt to boost listenership. One of them is Ticket Tuesday, where
listeners send in postcards with the tickets they want, and Mix 105 takes
care of the rest.

The idea is that you select the concert or play or whatever you want to see,
rather than waiting for, say, Metropolitan Opera tickets to be given away
to the tenth caller. Hmmm, right.

Unfortunately for the radio station, one metro-area listener took the
instructions a bit too literally, and when her card was pulled, the promo
department was forced to take care of her seven Manhattan parking tickets.