I bet the price of that console was going to break their bank.
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Jfc... How much of a psychopathic piece of shit do you have to be, to hurt a kid's feelings like that?! I fucking hate people.
It reminds me of the Santa mall scene in a Christmas Story
I mean I would get it if they had an empty box out on the court for the show, and then having to take away the empty show box... But they gave the kid a jersey instead? Wtf?
they apologized or gave it back. this apology was planned.
The skit that "missed the mark" . . .
Quit sucking up to corporate America, yahoo sports writer. The Hornets farked up a simple PR event in every way it was possible TO fark up. They baited and switched a PS5 with a t-shirt and thought no one would find out about it.
And they have so damn much money that giving him the PS5 would have been like you or me flicking a penny to the kid.
People suck sometimes, I swear.
That sounds about right, I've never gotten anything nice from a hornet. The one time I did get something from a hornet, it was a painful disappointment.
Goddamn hornets, this is why everyone prefers bees
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
Man, I wish I had gone to your school.
I would have went back to school the next day and the kids would have presented me with two broken PS2s taped to a broken PS1 and giggled while singing, “I love your PS5, it makes me holler! Where’d you get it, Family Dollar?!”
Fat kid in the background with a Taz tattoo on one arm and a confederate flag on the other (at the ripe old age of 10) would have shouted, “LIKE HIS SHOES! AHAHAHAHAHA!”
Then the kids would start stabbing each other over whether Ford or Chevy trucks are better.
Haha, you live around here?
Might have to get more specific. For example, I recall a trailer park pinecone war that pitted kids from one half of the trailer park against those low-life bastards from the other half. I'm from the good half, obviously.
That's called theft. Legally a gift is irrevocable once it's given.
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!
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!
LOL. Cheap bastards. I mean, PS5 is an expensive gift, but not for such an occasion, no?
If a PS5 is too expensive to give away, then don't pretend to give one away.
I feel like I shouldn't have to say this.
Compared to the marketing expenses of even very small companies, a PS5 is so ridiculously cheap that these costs are not even worth mentioning.
I meant expensive for a kid. Of course, yes.
Sure. But the Hornets aren't interested in the child, they're only interested in marketing. The only way I can explain this is that either some employee wanted the PS5 and just took it from the kid or the Hornets' marketing department thinks that even bad publicity is free publicity. Maybe they intentionally planned for the predictable media coverage on this matter because it also brings attention. If the Hornets wanted to buy this kind of exposure, that paltry $500 wouldn't even begin to cover it.
Why? It's a few hundred dollars, not a car or something.
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.
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.
yeah, anything under 1000 was a rounding error.
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.
One of the comments about why
How would this commenter know that?
I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid...
what? lies? ob 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
Yikes.
Stingy.
They're Hornets. Being stingy bastards is in the name!
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!"
That's fucked up.
Psych!