Preliminary - Feature Writing Practice

Feature Writing Practice

Feature Story - "Someone called 18 people in the city last night. The caller identified himself as the president of Rutherford Ford, Inc., 2780 Doss Boulevard. He told each of the people that they had just won a new car from his dealership. Interviewed by reporters today, most of the people who received the calls said that at first they just couldn't believe it. And they were right. They couldn't. The person who called was a prankster, and Allen Rutherford, president of the dealership, says he has no idea who placed he calls, and that he's spending all his time today trying to explain the situation to those 18 people. "Someone apparently has a sick idea of humor," Rutherford said. After convincing people they had won a new car, the caller asked them to drop by the dealership this morning to pick it up. All 18 were there when the dealership opened its doors at 9 a.m. "I told them we never offered to give away a car," Rutherford said. "One woman told me she couldn't believe she'd won, and then she told me she couldn't believe it when I told her she hadn't. Two other women began to cry, and a man is threatening to sue me."

My Practice- From shouts and chants of joy to cries of disappoint and anger of people receiving calls stating that they just won a new car from the president of Rutherford Ford, a well known car dealership in Doss Boulevard. The excitement yet confusion received from the winning contestants were reported and each of the 18 individuals discovered that Allen Rutherford was the actual president of the dealership and a completely different human from the one they spoke with on the phone. Allen knew nothing about the phone calls and urged the 18 individuals involved to refrain from moving forward in the process of the "president" they spoke with. The interesting part of this story is as the 18 individuals made it to the dealership, Allen was the one who discovered there reasoning for arriving at that very moment. Unaware of everything involving his business, Allen was left to suffer with the consequences of the betrayed "car winners'. Allen goes further to state the reactions of the individual like their tears, anger, and legal threats. All in all, this story has taken Doss and other car dealerships by storm who knows who "President of Pranks" next target could be.