Here in Vancouver, Canada many years ago one of the morning show hosts dressed in a beaver suit with a big sign asking to buy heroin and went down to the east side and bought heroin live on air, then got handcuffed for buying drugs on air at 7 in the morning.
They went on a “totally planned vacation for a few days” after that incident.
Please let there be a video of this on the web somewhere
No, there is not. There is some video of him in the costume but not doing the actual drug deal. There were two cops listening live and tracked him down pretty quickly. To this day he won’t talk about it at all. While the other two hosts will kind of giggle about it. They won’t outright talk about it, mostly it is mentioned about how much trouble they got in, along with how many other times they got suspended for a few days for doing other bits that went too far in their boss’s eyes.
Why did he do this? And why did it have to be done while wearing a beaver suit?
They did it as a comedy bit. It was funny, they did it also to show how ridiculously easy it was to buy drugs in the downtown Eastside when even a guy being so blatant and showy could get heroin in less than 10 mins.
“local” radio still exists, and in many ways it’s better than ever because you can hear it from anywhere!
Go to any internet radio streaming service and search for “independent” or “university” and you’ll get tons of super cool unusual commercial-free stations from around the world.
Here are some of my favorites:
The Telecommuncations Act of 1996 is what started the decline of independent radio stations
The intro to every Behind the Bastards.
Haha, I can totally read it in his voice now
PRODUCTS!!!
