When Screwing Your Clients Goes Wrong: The Red & Blue Light Edition

So many things happened today that I honestly cannot keep up.

As you may know, I have a Day Job. I actually get up everyday and go to work, interact with clients, produce deliverables, and collect a paycheck. Everyday. This day, before I’d finished my first cup of coffee, I got a polite Cease & Desist request via email. It wasn’t even 24 hours—I think that’s a new record.

Apparently not everyone appreciated the darling kitty video I posted last night. Who doesn’t like cat videos? Cat videos power the internets.

Here’s the deal: I was asked to remove a reference to another travel company in last night’s post. You might recall, I said something about Fantasy and Dreams Luxury Travel—they asked me to pull the name and link and I complied. See, if you look at the original post, there is no reference to the Fantasy and Dreams Luxury Travel website or their Facebook page because they are a separate company from Blue Sky Journeys and don’t have any affiliation to the owners of Blue Sky Journeys.

Oh, wait…what’s this?

BSJ Melanie Facebook

Thought so.

But then it got better: I got gifts! And, even though I didn’t go the kindergarten, I know how to share. So I’m giving them back to you…the people. (You have to say this is Bane’s voice).

You know in Law & Order, how Lenny and Benjamin Bratt do all the legwork? Here’s what that looks like for real:

BSJ Police Incident Report

The report essentially says that the dance school contacted Blue Sky Journeys to plan their Disney World trip. Parents paid for themselves and their daughters, made PayPal payments, and wrote checks, to the tune of approximately $60,000. But when they showed up at Disney, there weren’t any reservations, no dance classes, not even the fucking van to take them from the airport to the resort! And DMFRH was onsite knowing good and goddamn well he ain’t paid for shit. Disney tried to be classy and not ruin the kids’ trip and one of the parents, the wife of a famous country singer (it is Tennessee, after all) footed the rest of the bill but on the condition that the police were involved. And here we are.

You know what comes next?

Once the police get their person, they go to the Grand Jury and one of the pretty ADAs who work for Jack McCoy–Serena, Connie Rubirosa (with her fine tail) or Crossing Jordan or whoever makes the case and they get an indictment. Like this:

BSJ Indictment

For those of you uninterested in reading, that is an indictment for theft. These cats got indicted and arrested for taking $60K from a dance school for kids for their Disney World trip. Dude, that’s like robbing Make-A-Wish.

And look at the witness list at the bottom on the last page: people from Disney Legal and Paypal–MF-ing Paypal, y’all? It’s about to get deep. I’m gonna be all over Orbitz to find me a ticket. Do courtrooms in Tennessee allow you to bring popcorn?

Next: Investigative Journalism!

10 thoughts on “When Screwing Your Clients Goes Wrong: The Red & Blue Light Edition

  1. Chris I applaud you on taking out all the references to Fantasy and Dreams Luxury Travel on yesterday’s post. Good for you in doing the right thing LOL

  2. WHY oh WHY doesn’t word press have a “Like” option like Facebook. You know I must say when I saw the indictment at a friends house tonight I had the same verbal response as your video. Excellent choice.. BTW, if you go go to Tenn your gonna need cowboy boots… Not so that you fit in, but so you can wade through the verbal diarrhea and excuses that seem to be following Mr. S…

  3. Looks like this story is going to make our Nashville local news tonight at 9pm central time. http://fox17.com They do have a online stream. Sad thing about this is its gonna make Travel Agents look really bad. John and Melanie are playing in Destin Fl not caring what they have done to the local Nashville Travel industries.

      • Yes the local fox news affiliate that BSJ was on a couple times giving their travel expertize. Not sure if it previewed today but someone I know involved told me it would be on so I called local Fox 17 and confirmed it with the reporter Stacy Case who will be reporting the story. She said it will be airing tonight on the 9pm nightly news.

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