No $50K prize for 11-year-old who made 89-foot hockey shot

Yahoo! News ^ | 8/31/2011 | Sean Leahy

[Ingtar]

The “problem” was that the father was honest and wanted to teach his children honesty. The problem for the insurer is to piss off their stockholders or the public.

[Will88]

Again, I sincerely doubt the company would have cared about getting the right kid had the kid missed.

And if the dad had been thinking faster, I doubt if they'd have objected if he'd said: "Nick is not in the building at the moment, but his identical twin Nate just happens to standing right here. Would if be okay if Nate takes the shot in his place?"

[BenKenobi]

Given the company response? Yeah, they’d probably just award it to a different raffle ticket.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

My point is that I don't think there was any dishonesty here by the father. He thinks it's dishonesty just because he wrote his boys names on those tickets?? I think that's stretching the definition of dishonesty. So if he wrote the boys' names on there, he could have crossed it out and written the other boys name on the ticket! Technical "dishonesty" solved. This isn't a case of the ticket seller writing each ticket buyer's name on each ticket as they buy it.

[Ingtar]

I see. So now the entire incident makes no sense.

[calex59]

Stupid answer and no answer at all. There was no difference except it allowed the insurance company to weasel out of paying.

[Huck]

It’s called the rules.

[Cheetahcat]

"How were the rules written: Ticket holder or Purchaser? From the article-"On Wednesday, the company decided against giving Nate the $50,000 and instead announced it will donate $20,000 to Minnesota youth hockey in the boys' names. The exact reasoning for not awarding the money wasn't released,, but more than likely it was written into the policy that the winner of the $50,000 had to be the person who purchased the ticket." The writer here seems. to be speculating on rules that may or may not exist.

The Youth Hockey is nice but they stole from that kid and saved $30K in the processes!

[Baynative]

I said before; if tickets were bought in a string and handed to the boys, it doesn’t matter who bought them or took the shot. But, if John Smith bought the ticket and his name was called to take the shot and his buddy Wayne Gretzky went down and took the shot for him it isn’t right.

[BenKenobi]

Is there any evidence that the switch occurred with the intent to defraud the insurance company money?

[Baynative]

"Is there any evidence that the switch occurred with the intent to defraud the insurance company money?"

I doubt it.