[gjones77]

Everyone is missing the point, to give the money to them when the kids didn’t follow the rules would be rewarding lying and falsehoods, the father knew this and spoke up instead of taking the money.

They are in no way weaseling out of paying them, they are simply stating that they called for one persona and another made the shot, to have taken the money would be fraud.

Please stop hooting and hollering that the company should pay up, they should do no such thing since it would be rewarding dishonesty.

[americanophile]

The kids are minors, there's no valid contract here. The tickets were purchased for them. If they were only going to allow purchasers to claim the prize, then they had a duty to ensure that only adults (18+), utilizing their own money, purchased raffle tickets. Yet, they allowed an 11-year-old to get up and take the shot. They knew from the beginning, by virtue of his age, that he didn't buy the ticket himself. That it was in his brother's hand before his is irrelevant - neither of them purchased it, a condition which the company knowingly waved when it allowed them to take the shot.

In reality, the odds were no one would make the shot, someone did, and the company is weaseling out of it.