Reminds me of the Klondike Big Inch promotion Quaker Oats ran in the 1950s: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-07-07/features/8702190736_1_quaker-oats-yuk

Reminds me of the Klondike Big Inch promotion Quaker Oats ran in the 1950s: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-07-07/features/8702190736_1_quaker-oats-yukon-territory-cereals http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-07-07/features/87021... Here's what happened: > Ronald Bottrell, my source at Quaker Oats, said that in the early 1960s, all the land reverted to Canadian-government ownership. The reason: nonpayment of taxes. > ``The individuals who had received the deeds in the cereal boxes had become the owners of the land,`` Bottrell said. ``Obviously, none of them ever paid taxes on it. So the ownership of the land went back to Canada. The promotion was long over, anyway.`` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Big_Inch_Land_Promotion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Big_Inch_Land_Promotio... More: > Although the deeds were a campaign promotion, many people took ownership of the land seriously. One man wrote Quaker Oats to announce that he had collected 10,800 deeds and was now the owner of 75 square feet of land. Another man, accused of murdering his wife, used his deeds to secure the services of a defense lawyer. The lawyer asked to be excused from the case when he learned the land consisted of 1,000 inches. http://articles.dailypress.com/2000-04-04/features/0004030133_1_quaker-oats-deeds-yukon-territory http://articles.dailypress.com/2000-04-04/features/000403013... http://articles.mcall.com/2008-04-29/features/4064347_1_yukon-act-quaker-oats-yukon-territory http://articles.mcall.com/2008-04-29/features/4064347_1_yuko...