2008.11.18
First & Main helicopter cash drop canceled
A plan to drop $10,000 in cash from a helicopter over the new First & Main retail center in Blacksburg has been scrapped.
Blacksburg Deputy Town Manager Steve Ross said today (Nov. 18) that officials expressed safety concerns to the organizers -- an Ohio-based advertisting firm working for First & Main.
The cash drop was to be part of a Nov. 28 grand opening event for the retail center and would have coincided with the traditional kickoff of the Christmas shopping season, also known as Black Friday.
Cash and prizes will apparently still be given away. Details are still to be announced.
-- Tonia Moxley
WKRP in Cincinati!
Comment by Philip — November 21, 2008 @ 7:00 pm