'I Just Want a Plane': When a College Student Demanded Pepsi Hand Over a Harrier Jet
John Leonard ’s requirement was elementary : All he wanted was forPepsito deliver the Harrier jet he believed they owed him . In 1996 , Leonard , then a 21 - year - previous college scholar , insistedhe had amassed enough points given away during one of the soft drink giant ’s promotional campaigns to take monomania of the aircraft , which cost a stupefying $ 33.8 million and was part of the U....