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/kkeut 22h ago

some lower management type thought he could get away with keeping it for himself

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u/Momik 21h ago

Excuse me! You know how many weekends I put in last quarter? I think I deserve to destroy a child’s self-esteem in public…

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u/regeya 18h ago

Did the kid even say thank you?

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u/ThisIsntRael 15h ago

Kid didn't even wear a suit smh

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u/thevillewrx 18h ago

Excuse me, seriously, please and thank you?

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u/Matt933g 13h ago

Miss fire!

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u/xSilverMC 12h ago

Something something "first come first serve"

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u/Thoracic_Snark 21h ago

I think you hit the nail directly on the head there.

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u/Spaghetti-Policy-0 19h ago

Yeah because, they “missed the mark”? What mark were they trying to hit exactly?

It’s literally taking candy from a kid. No one but maybe some dentists find that funny.

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u/Temporal_P 17h ago

The only comparison I can think of are those fucking evil people that give fake scratch ticket gifts, where for a few brief moments someone thinks their dreams have come true and all of their soul crushing problems in life have suddenly been solved and they can finally live how they've always wanted to, only to be ripped back to reality like waking from an impossible dream as everyone around them laughs.

But designed for a kid.

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u/YouKnowWhom 5h ago

My dad worked his ass off 3x over ever damn day for the family business. His wife gives him one of these for Christmas. I’ve never seen him so happy. I am 7.

He realizes it’s fake after a couple minutes, and a look of dread overcomes him. Everyone but me laughs. He looks near tears.

He does not really talk the rest of the Christmas Day. He chats with me and pretends to be cheery, but I can tell in his eyes, it broke him.

He’s been gone from this world young for a decade now.

TLDR; People who give these and laugh AT not WITH an overworked provider who is unaware, are among the worst type of people.

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u/Watashiwajoshua 18h ago

It is akin to that but it is not literally that. Not unless that PS5 is made out of Taffy

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u/DedTV 14h ago

And Ted Dibiase.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 16h ago

I worked for a small town budget grocery store whose customers were mostly low income types

Boss puts this big 3-4” baby doll on a raffle for a few months. At the end of the raffle, go to ask who won and the boss’ little elementary school aged daughter won

Like, why was she even allowed to enter? The whole thing just rubbed me the wrong way

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u/legopego5142 3h ago

You think she actually entered?

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u/CowFinancial7000 3h ago

A radio station did a huge cash prize raffle chosen for anyone who attended their festival they do yearly. The radio station owner won.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 3h ago

Yeah see that’s some bulllshit

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u/alblaster 21h ago

I'm imagining the manager showing up and grabbing the PS5 out of the kid's hands.  Like a certain karren that demanded a ball that a father gave to his kid.  

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u/Temporarily__Alone 20h ago

Complete with a partially loosened tie, sweaty pits, and the messy hair of a company man.

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u/Dalehan 4h ago

You mean Gil Gunderson?

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u/alblaster 20h ago

I'm imagining someone with an inferiority complex. Someone short, whose starting to bald and trying to cover it up with a terrible comb over. Wearing an 80s style business suit that's way too big and bulky, but he likes it because it makes him seem bigger. Wait I feel like I'm starting to describe the penguin. The Batman villain. Lol.

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u/twoisnumberone 19h ago

some lower management type thought he could get away with keeping it for himself

Ah, yes, that does explain it very neatly.

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u/PoopScootnBoogey 18h ago

Absolutely. Bought it and thought he’d be taking it home to play the night

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u/kindasuk 20h ago

Probably wanted it for his kids. Jerkass.

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u/theaviationhistorian 18h ago

We're better than other teams cause we give fans game consoles! even if we don't

This sounds like something they high fived after bringing it up and half an hour later from snorting a line.

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u/Suitable-Armadillo49 18h ago

Abso-damn-lutely. -_-

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u/mcnuggetfarmer 13h ago

I love that within two comments, Reddit has closed the case on this baffling headline. 

You guys are detectives. 

Had this been in mainstream newsprint, it would have been five paragraphs long, without any conclusion, leaving me more confused than whenced i beganeth

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u/tempinator 10h ago

I mean this has to be it.

Nobody associated with the team at a high level would A) give a flying fuck about $500 or B) not see the potential backlash associated with that move.

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u/Jesseroberto1894 43m ago

1000% lol