I wonder how it affected the kid. I don't know the grade school culture these days but when I was his age I think it would've earned sympathy points from the whole class and boosted his social ranking lol. As an aside I do not miss that aspect of school lol
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I guess I'll continue not watching basketball or football or whatever
Yeah. Fuck this noise. I'm boycotting the Hornets. You won't catch me at a Hornets Football match!
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LOL. Cheap bastards. I mean, PS5 is an expensive gift, but not for such an occasion, no?
The team has revenue in the millions. They'd never have noticed the money. This should be in the dictionary under Penny Wise, Pound Foolish.
Kinda reminiscent of various Russian official events involving children.
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Why? It's a few hundred dollars, not a car or something.
It could have literally been a tax write off
It could have been a glitch in tax calculator tbh. Not my point. And I agree with you. "LOL. Cheap bastards" was my point.
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One of the comments about why
How would this commenter know that?
You want Lemmy adoption.. you get folks with stature in the machine sharing mundane recon.. you don't believe anything.
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I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid...
what? lies? on the internet? why would anyone do such a thing.
I know, right? I'm human like you and totally not a dog
By having met her.
Source: trust me bro
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Yikes.
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I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.
Stingy.
They're Hornets. Being stingy bastards is in the name!
That's fucked up.
wait what? did they go back to the store and ask for a refund on the PS5, lol.... someone was like "that is fine we will just apologize and save a couple hundred bucks!"
Psych!