I see no problem with this decision.
Saw this on the local news. It was an incredible shot, but rules are rules.
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Probably the right decision BUT- How did they know?
Several years ago - back when the Washington Basketball team was the Bullets, I was one of 3 that got the program to try a shot from half court for a million, if not mistaken, think we drew for who shot 1st and if one hit the others were out. I took the shot from half court line and it stayed in the air till about the backboard, was wide, wide right.
I blamed it on street shoes and I was on a regular diet of Bud at the time so was probably very lucky when I made the lay up for a hamburger or something like that.
Point being I could have handed the program off to anybody and I doubt it could have been ‘traced’ back to me as it was purchased separately.
Seems like a good outcome to me....
Pathetic and dumb. The Odds On Promotions sponsors would have reaped much better publicity for paying out. Cheap bastards.
It’s much better to be a member of a loudmouth minority. A few years ago an illegal alien Chinese couple had the first baby of the New Year and thought they had won $25,000 from Toys R Us. Turns out contest rules said you had to be legal US residents or citizens. The Chinese community raised heck, contest sponsors caved and forked over the 25 grand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jan/08/usa.richardluscombe
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/nyregion/06toys.html?pagewanted=print
It’s a good call. Kids learn honesty, youth hockey gets some cash.
A very good decision. 100 percent in agreement with it.
If I were the other brother, I would sue the company for allowing an imposter to shoot his shot for him.
It’s easy to feel good about yourself and say “give the 50 thou to the 11 year old” when it’s not your money.
But consider: Sounds to me like the charity mis represented some of their raffle controls (probably innocently) to the insurance company - which would throw off the odds calculation and the premium calculation. The odds against one person winning a raffle and hitting the 89 foot shot are far larger than the odds of one person doing one and another person the other. The fact that it was his twin is immaterial.
And insurance is nothing if not a statistical odds risk management tool. Life insurance won’t pay for the death of a twin, and neither will this.
If they are identical twins ... they have identical DNA aka Clones of each other ... maybe their names got mixed up at the Hospital, or on the way home or they swapped lunch boxes in the 3rd grade...
If I was a Lawyer I’d only ask for half... /S
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If rules and laws are not followed, society will continue to disintegrate and total strangers will begin making holes in ones and impossible hockey shots. Soon dogs will ask for cat-transition surgery and Muslims will start eating BLTs.
Then chaos will prevail and any fool will think they can become President of the US.....Its frightening.
Cheap welching basterds!