One of my favorite stories... (Thanks to Bryan for the link!)
Suing TV's 'Wheel' for a Fortune [WP]
Lorton Contestant Took Home Money and a Bad Back
Contestant Will Wright had just won $48,400, and the "Wheel of Fortune" audience was cheering with abandon in a D.C. auditorium where the show was being taped. Suddenly, Wright says, host Pat Sajak leapt at his body and wrapped his arms and legs around him.
Sajak's midair bearhug that October 2000 night at Constitution Hall was edited out of the broadcast, Wright says. But Wright, who is no longer in the market for a vowel, remembers it well. This week, the 38-year-old puzzle-guessing champion from Lorton filed a $2 million lawsuit against the show's producers over the back injuries he says he suffered from Sajak's moment of unbridled enthusiasm.
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