Nothing 'goodie' in these bags
(STNG)
A Burbank mother has expressed her outrage after Toyota Park concert sponsors handed her disabled 12-year-old daughter a goodie bag including condoms and a sex-toy catalogue Sunday.
Pam Richard, 39, says she spent $167 to take her daughters Heather, 12, Crystal, 14, and Hala, 18, to the B96 Summerbash at the Bridgeview stadium.
The trip to see stars including Akon, Rihanna and Hilary Duff perform was intended to be a family celebration of Crystal's eighth-grade graduation.
But the outing was soured during a pre-show performance inside the stadium grounds, Richard said.
"The dancers were handing out CDs, so I went to the front to get one for Heather," she said.
"Heather has a disability similar to Tourette's syndrome, which makes her nervous in crowds and clench her fists when she's excited, so she couldn't ask herself.
"But when I told the dancer she was disabled, he wouldn't give me one.
"I asked again and he handed Heather a pink bag -- when I saw what was inside, I was shocked."
Inside the bag, which was put together by Lisle-based nightclub promotions company Mixmaster Throwdown, were two condoms, a catalogue for the adult store Lover's Lane, an explicit CD titled "Vigina," "Bearly Legal" sun-tan lotion sachets printed with marijuana leaves and a book of gag "sex coupons" entitling the bearer to direct sex videos and other sexual favors.
"I am disgusted they would promote sex and drugs to a 12-year-old," Richard said.
"About 90 percent of the people at the concert were teens and pre-teens -- this was completely inappropriate."
Eric Gorde, of the Lover's Lane marketing department admitted it had been "a mistake" to supply giveaways for the concert.
1 comment:
Well times have changed,
I was 11 years old when my Mom toom me to go see Jefferson Airplane (long story).
Anyway, there's Grace Slick and all of the pot smoking going on all around us, I distinctley remembering a person puking their guts out right in front of us.
Oh yeh, my Mom had cotton in her ears..
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