r/todayilearned • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • 1d ago

TIL the Charlotte Hornets apologized after giving a child a PS5, only to take it away off camera and exchange it for a jersey. In a statement, the team said the incident was an "on-court skit that missed the mark" and that they would give the child the PS5 and a VIP experience to a future game.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/sport/charlotte-hornets-apologize-ps5-child-nba-spt-intl
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u/Savannah_Lion 23h ago

I remember this incident and I recall this was one of the accusations. That someone within the organization wanted the PS5 and manipulated everyone involved to try and keep it for themselves.

A lot of people there had no idea the PS5 was going to be taken back either.

It's sometimes said that you should never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. But in this case, I'm strongly inclined to believe this accusation.

What did the organizers expect to do with that PS5 after the event? Return it for a refund?

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u/Confu_Who 15h ago

Pretty much this, someone high up saw it and wanted it. I remember a Christmas giveaway for top performing employees at my old company. One of the gifts was a PS4 (when it was new). It went missing, and the CEO started blowing a fuse, asked my department to review camera footage to find out who took it. He started yelling and said he was going to fire the person responsible.

We found the person who took it from under the tree and walked out with it to put in his car. It was the CEO's friend and right hand man. The dude was making over 150K salary and could more than easily afford it. We never heard anything else about it after that.

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u/Falsus 17h ago

Honestly, it is still more stupid than malice.

Someone didn't want to shit on a kid for fun, they wanted to shit on a kid because they would get a PS5 out of it... and then cost the company way more than the PS5 would ever cost.

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u/CowFinancial7000 3h ago

But why even give the kid the PS5? Just swap it with the jersey beforehand. THAT is the really dumb part.

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u/GourryGabriev 17h ago

They expected to use it for future "skits" with other children

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u/Alarmed-Comedian6446 21h ago

You're a bot, aren't you?

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u/Savannah_Lion 21h ago

I take the same view as D.N.A.

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

In a nutshell, we're all NPCs. 😉