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The Voice of the Wildwood Tram Car is Suing the Tram Car

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Oct 22nd, 2024 · 12:53 PM EDT

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The woman who voiced the Wildwood tram car is suing the company for “misappropriation of likeness” –

Floss Stingel, known as the voice of “Watch the Tram Car, Please” on the Wildwood Boardwalk for more than 50 years, has filed a lawsuit against Wildwood Tram Car Operators for “Misappropriation of likeness & unjust enrichment.” 1/2 pic.twitter.com/pdUJrCISJG

— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) October 22, 2024

If this lady wins her lawsuit, I’m suing her for damages. Sorry. Every time Bob Kelly pokes her like a Tickle Me Elmo I’m getting PTSD. I hate the Tram Car. Loathe it. The most annoying thing on the boardwalk and we have teenagers beating the crap out of each other and seagulls dive-bombing to steal french fries. Floss seems like an absolute saint, but I’m rooting against her.

If you disagree with me, watch this four hour video of the Tram Car and tell me how long you make it:

Not too long, eh? There’s no way this lawsuit has legs anyway, right? I’m not a lawyer, but couldn’t the tram car just change the voice? Give a Wildwood citizen a pack of smokes and a Tully Nut and they’ll do it:

2/2 Floss said it into her boyfriend’s recorder in 1971. He was an employee of tram car operators. Her lawsuit claims her voice recording has been used without her explicit consent & Wildwood Tram Operators has gained significant benefits without providing her any compensation. pic.twitter.com/NfQzeuwf8w

— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) October 22, 2024

And suing 50 years later? Something tells me this isn’t even poor Floss’s doing. It’s probably some greedy lawyer or one of her kids trying to make a quick buck. Now does she deserve free rides for life? Absolutely. But this is like the story of the woman who created the Nike Swoosh. She was paid $35 for her work and that was it. Now Phil Knight out of the kindness of his heart gave her 500 shares of Nike 12 years later, but she didn’t deserve another dime. She even said so herself. When Floss talked into that recorder back in 1971 she should’ve had the business sense to ask for some stock shares or 20% of the boardwalk profit per summer season like David Choe did with Facebook.