The Yo-Yo Hoaxer


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A man named Kenny Strasser or Kenny Strassburg has, in recent weeks, convinced five television stations in the Wisconsin area to put him on the air as a yo-yo master promoting charitable causes. But before they put him on the air, they didn't bother to verify that these charities existed or that he knew to use a yo-yo:
His latest appearance occurred Thursday morning on KQTV's "Hometown This Morning," in St. Joseph, Mo.

"He got us," said Bridget Blevins, the station's news director. "I hate that we got duped."

And how good was he with the yo-yo, a skill Strasser has said made him a champion? "He did some really lame things. He hit himself in the face and the groin with his yo-yo," Blevins said. [...]

Guehrke wrote in one e-mail to a TV station that Strasser was a dynamic talk-show guest who comes "equipped with a roster of amazing yo-yo tricks, juggling and fun tips about how kids and adults alike can take small steps to make the world a greener place."

The e-mail solicitation stated that Strasser was a runner-up for Rookie of the Year in 1995, grand champion at the Pensacola Regional and was nominated for the Walt Greenberg Award in 2000.

There is no Walt Greenberg Award in yo-yo, and there is no evidence Pensacola ever hosted a yo-yo tournament or that Strasser won a rookie of the year award.

But the solicitation was good enough for the bookers on the TV stations.


Link via Geekosystem

He pranked KQTV, my hometown station, on a Thurs and made this stop at the Joplin station on Friday. http://stjoechannel.com/fulltext?nxd_id=128275&watch=1

The K-Strass radar is watching closely. KStrass was found on twitter, but the website is disabled.
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OWNED!

actually, I find it pretty cool, how he managed to trick everyone, and if I watched this show, I would have been really amused, as today's "seen on TV" HAS TO BE always amazing/perfect/shocking, etc.

... I must precise, I'm not considering this man Kenny Strasser as ridiculous at all. But he really know how to "use" the "look for spectacular" effect.
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i wonder if he hit his knee with a yo yo or if he hurt it in the fall? you see him reachind down and rubbing his leg several times at the end. whatever it takes to get your 15 minutes i guess. he should not have used fake kids charity though, isn't that a crime?
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"he should not have used fake kids charity though, isn't that a crime?"

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but it isn't a crime to tell people you host events for a fake charity. You'd have to actually host an event for said charity and take people's money.
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The real criminals are the TV station employees that were duped. They are stealing their salaries from their employers. They are clearly unqualified for their jobs.
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