That's called theft. Legally a gift is irrevocable once it's given.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
589 points (99.2% liked)
Not The Onion
12529 readers
1188 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
nice troll.
I guess I'll continue not watching basketball or football or whatever
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!
Yeah. Fuck this noise. I'm boycotting the Hornets. You won't catch me at a Hornets Football match!
LOL. Cheap bastards. I mean, PS5 is an expensive gift, but not for such an occasion, no?
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.
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.
load more comments
(1 replies)
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.
yeah, anything under 1000 was a rounding error.
Budget lint
load more comments
(2 replies)
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
load more comments
(8 replies)
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.
load more comments
(2 replies)
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
load more comments
(1 replies)
Yikes.
load more comments
(1 replies)
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!