MTV apologizes after teens sue
SANTA MONICA (AP) -- "MTV apologized Thursday to two 14-year-old girls who
said they were splattered with feces when an act defecated on stage during a
taping of the music channel's "Dude, This Sucks" show.
"This is a terrible incident. It was unintended and we regret that it
happened," Brian Graden, the cable channel's president for programming, said
in a statement.
He added that the episode would never be aired and that he had taken steps
to see that such an event never happens again.
"We are sorry if these women were hurt. It is certainly never our intention
to hurt anyone," he said.
Graden said the network had just learned that the girls are suing MTV,
adding that the company "will respond accordingly through the legal
process."
The teen-agers said they were standing next to a stage on Jan. 21 at the
Snow Summit Ski Resort in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles,
watching a two-man act called Shower Rangers during videotaping of a "Snowed
In" segment of the MTV show.
"Without warning or explanation the two Shower Rangers turned their
backsides to the audience, both opened a flap on the back of their shorts,
exposing their naked buttocks," the girls' attorney Gloria Allred said.
"Before they could say or do anything, the Shower Ranger whose buttocks
faced them bent over, spread the cheeks of his buttocks and emitted a spray
of fecal matter," the lawyer said.
Monique Garcia and Kelli Sloat of Big Bear Lake are seeking unspecified
general, compensatory and punitive damages, claiming intentional infliction
of emotional distress, negligence and battery.
"All of a sudden I was smelling something disgusting and I started to gag. I
looked around at my friends. They were covered in something. As I looked
down at myself, I realized I was, too," Garcia said during a news conference
at Allred's office.
"We believe that subjecting children without their knowledge and consent and
without notice to their parents to such an outrageous and indecent act is
completely unacceptable and intolerable," Allred said.
The teen-agers "want to send a message that this type of act goes far beyond
the bounds of decency and that neither MTV nor any television network should
ever allow any similar disgusting incident to take place in the future,"
Allred said. "
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When they start using toilet paper we can call them sellouts.
Something smells here--besides allegedly sprayed fecal matter. I looked up "Shower Rangers" on Google, Dogpile, and the MTV search engine. Nada. The whole thing sounds like an '00s version of the "Frank-Zappa-crapped-on-stage-and-Captain-Beefheart-ate-it" folklore of the '70s, but here there's not even a real band. Just some publicity for MTV's dumb "Snowed In" program. As long as we're being gratuitous, here's the girls:
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SANTA MONICA (AP) -- "MTV apologized Thursday to two 14-year-old girls who said they were splattered with feces when an act defecated on stage during a taping of the music channel's "Dude, This Sucks" show.
"This is a terrible incident. It was unintended and we regret that it happened," Brian Graden, the cable channel's president for programming, said in a statement.
He added that the episode would never be aired and that he had taken steps to see that such an event never happens again.
"We are sorry if these women were hurt. It is certainly never our intention to hurt anyone," he said.
Graden said the network had just learned that the girls are suing MTV, adding that the company "will respond accordingly through the legal process."
The teen-agers said they were standing next to a stage on Jan. 21 at the Snow Summit Ski Resort in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, watching a two-man act called Shower Rangers during videotaping of a "Snowed In" segment of the MTV show.
"Without warning or explanation the two Shower Rangers turned their backsides to the audience, both opened a flap on the back of their shorts, exposing their naked buttocks," the girls' attorney Gloria Allred said.
"Before they could say or do anything, the Shower Ranger whose buttocks faced them bent over, spread the cheeks of his buttocks and emitted a spray of fecal matter," the lawyer said.
Monique Garcia and Kelli Sloat of Big Bear Lake are seeking unspecified general, compensatory and punitive damages, claiming intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and battery.
"All of a sudden I was smelling something disgusting and I started to gag. I looked around at my friends. They were covered in something. As I looked down at myself, I realized I was, too," Garcia said during a news conference at Allred's office.
"We believe that subjecting children without their knowledge and consent and without notice to their parents to such an outrageous and indecent act is completely unacceptable and intolerable," Allred said.
The teen-agers "want to send a message that this type of act goes far beyond the bounds of decency and that neither MTV nor any television network should ever allow any similar disgusting incident to take place in the future," Allred said. "
Copyright © The Sacramento Bee
- bill 4-06-2001 4:09 pm
When they start using toilet paper we can call them sellouts.
- jimlouis 4-09-2001 1:48 am [add a comment]
Something smells here--besides allegedly sprayed fecal matter. I looked up "Shower Rangers" on Google, Dogpile, and the MTV search engine. Nada. The whole thing sounds like an '00s version of the "Frank-Zappa-crapped-on-stage-and-Captain-Beefheart-ate-it" folklore of the '70s, but here there's not even a real band. Just some publicity for MTV's dumb "Snowed In" program. As long as we're being gratuitous, here's the girls:
- Tom Moody 4-09-2001 2:10 am [add a comment]
Like, ohmygawd.
- jimlouis 4-09-2001 2:12 am [add a comment]
The version I always heard was that Zappa crapped AND ate it. Another one went that Black Sabbath stomped on a crate of baby chicks during a show.
- steve 4-09-2001 7:59 pm [add a comment]
...and Ozzie ate the head off a bat...
- jim 4-09-2001 8:05 pm [add a comment]
The bat incedent did happen, but it was done before a board of record executives, not a screaming throng of fans (actually as I remember it, there was never much screaming at Sabbath shows, most of us just sat there motionless)
A V-1 special went into great detail on the story, they interviewed Ozzy who said he went to a doctor afterwards inquiring about the possibility of having contracted rabies)
- steve 4-10-2001 6:38 am [add a comment]
I searched for nought a link to Dr. Mumbazo (a Joe Coleman alter ego - plenty Coleman/no Mumbazo). Mumbazo geeked lab mice as perfomance art in the 80's. He started the act while in the punk band Steel Tips in the 70's.
- bill 4-11-2001 2:38 am [add a comment]
didnt gibby master bate??
- Skinny 4-09-2001 9:30 pm [add a comment]
Well sure, but we're talking about on stage...
Somebody stop this thread before it's too late.
- jim 4-09-2001 9:41 pm [add a comment]
It's always too late.
- jimlouis 4-10-2001 1:10 am [add a comment]
The thing about the baby chicks is TRUE! A friend of mine's friend said he saw it!
- Tom Moody 4-10-2001 1:29 am [add a comment]
the dixie chicks ?
- bill 4-10-2001 2:43 am [add a comment]