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Video here: http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/08/14/nr.kid.makes.shot.cnn

[Lancey Howard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVm-_y7u0T0

[golux]

Great story - but sorry. The insurance company will not make the payout. No way. Maybe folks can pitch in or something, but the name on the ticket has to be the guy who makes the shot. Clear-cut.

[cornfedcowboy]

I don’t know if it really should matter in the eyes of the insurance company. They insured the organization on one shot from no particular person.

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More here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/15/139658323/boy-makes-50k-hockey-shot-but-its-the-wrong-boy

[MaxMax]

Cheating is cheating. This kid does not and his cheating father does not
have any right to the 50k. What signal does it send to Children that
if someone else takes your test, the name deserves the grade.

Nope. And if the Father say's he didn't know, lock him up for fraud!

[MacMattico]

The boys father called and told them the truth. Give them the money and take it out of the advertising account, because they're getting more attention then they normally would, win-win.

[twin2]

Interchangable twin ping.

[calex59]

Some of you guys have a warped sense of what comprises cheating. The kid didn't cheat. He made the shot honestly, he didn't use a trick to make the shot, he made it fair and square. The father paid 10 bucks for a try at 50,000, I am sure it didn't matter which son's name he put on the ticket because they probably have equal ability. If they don't why would he put the son with lesser ability on the ticket?

What would he gain by putting one son's name on the ticket and then letting the other son shoot?

To say this is fraud is simply BS and the people who are getting all indignant about it are full of it.

This was not a "planned switch", it just happened. BTW, the way the article reads daddy didn't know at the time that Nate went in for Nick.

This whole thing is just an excuse for the insurance company not to pay out the $50,000. Insurance companies are all the fickin' same, they will go to great lengths not to pay up.

I will bet they don't pay, not because this was fraud(it wasn't)but because they will use any excuse not to pay out.

[Hatteras]

They are kids. This wasn’t some elaborate scheme to scam a charity out of $50K. The father presumably purchased the tickets for each kid and himself for the “chance” to make a once in a lifetime shot, rewarded with a $50K prize. So could some deranged lawyer reasonably claim that the father should be the one to take the shot no matter what name is on the ticket?

The only fact that should matter is that they called somebody out onto the ice betting that person could not shoot a 3” diameter puck into a 3-1/2” hole from 90 feet away and they lost the bet. Pay up, sucker.

[Roccus]

Organizers should have required state authorized photo ID....with thumb print!