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Cill Dara Abu · 01-09-2011 1:18pm #1

What a shower of cheap cnuts, they obviously wern't expecting anyone to ever make the shot.

Why not donate $50,000?

IT WAS AN amazing hockey shot, with the puck sliding into a tiny hole from center ice for a $50,000 prize. But a penalty was called on the Minnesota boy who made the shot during a charity event because his twin brother should have been wielding the stick.
The company that insured the event, Odds On Promotions of Reno, Nev., said Wednesday that due to “contractual breaches and legal implications” it was unable to pay the claim. Instead, the company said it would donate $20,000 to youth hockey in Minnesota in the boys’ names.
With one shot, 11-year-old Nate Smith hit the puck through a hole cut into a board from 89 feet away during a charity hockey game at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in the southern Minnesota city of Faribault on Aug. 11. But it was Nate’s identical twin, Nick, whose raffle ticket won the chance to take the shot at a hole just slightly larger than the puck.
The boys’ father, Pat Smith of Owatonna, said Nick was going outside with his buddies and told his brother to try.
“It didn’t even dawn on me he (Nate) was going to make it,” Smith told The Associated Press Wednesday.
He told organizers the next day about his sons’ swap. “You could tell they weren’t feeling right about it,” Smith said of the boys.
“We weren’t trying to hide anything,” he added. “We just felt honesty was the best policy.”
Originally, Smith said he was going to write Nate’s name on the raffle ticket before the drawing. But Nate begged off because he had just had a cast removed, his father said.
“We greatly respect the eventual honesty of the Smith family,” Mark Gilmartin, president of Odds On Promotions, said in a news release. “Although we’re unable to pay the claim on Nate’s incredible shot, we are confident our donation will foster a positive environment for present and future youth hockey in Minnesota.”
Smith said the boys, who are entering sixth grade, are disappointed they won’t get the money but are excited that youth hockey will benefit.
“They understand,” Smith said.
Nick and Nate Smith play for the Owatonna Youth Hockey Association. Odds On Promotions said the $20,000 donation will benefit that organization as well as the Faribault Youth Hockey Association, the promotion’s original beneficiary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZsIepxQjA

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:21pm

Oh what's this? Another news story I should waste my time and energy and stall my search for meaning by rabbling about? Ok then!

prinz · 01-09-2011 1:22pm

Fine print. You should always read it.

Sykk · 01-09-2011 1:22pm

Bastards isn't a bad word

Cill Dara Abu · 01-09-2011 1:22pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Oh what's this? Another news story I should waste my time and energy and stall my search for meaning by rabbling about? Ok then!

Or just piss off?

later12 · 01-09-2011 1:23pm

What's Nate short for, Nathan is it?

Horrible name to give a child. I blame the parents.

LighterGuy · 01-09-2011 1:24pm

Classic screw job.
Its terrible isnt it. They do anything to avoid paying :rolleyes: ... kicker is, its their prize. Dont have the bleeding thing if you dont wanna pay it out.

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:24pm

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Or just piss off?

No I insist, after you!

Trigger13222 · 01-09-2011 1:25pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Oh what's this? Another news story I should waste my time and energy and stall my search for meaning by rabbling about? Ok then!

Why bother wasting your time replying to the thread then.

WinstonOno · 01-09-2011 1:26pm

lesson of the story, never tell the truth!

later12 · 01-09-2011 1:27pm

Trigger13222 wrote: »

Why bother wasting your time replying to the thread then.

We get paid by the post, AFAIK.

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:27pm

Trigger13222 wrote: »

Why bother wasting your time replying to the thread then.

Of course! Now you're getting it.

fonecrusher1 · 01-09-2011 1:29pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Oh what's this? Another news story I should waste my time and energy and stall my search for meaning by rabbling about? Ok then!

^Its really fcuking annoying when you get someone first posting purely for the purpose of thanks whoring.

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:31pm

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

^Its really fcuking annoying when you get someone first posting purely for the purpose of thanks whoring.

Isn't it?

Maybe I'm really pointing out that unless this affects you personally I'm not sure why you should get enraged. People getting killed, yeah rabble about that. People losing out on money because of small print, nah not that important, personally.

fonecrusher1 · 01-09-2011 1:33pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Isn't it?

Maybe I'm really pointing out that unless this affects you personally I'm not sure why you should get enraged. People getting killed, yeah rabble about that. People losing out on money because of small print, nah not that important, personally.

If you're not interested in the thread then go away to another thread that you are interested in.

Saila · 01-09-2011 1:35pm

eh source?

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:36pm

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

If you're not interested in the thread then go away to another thread that you are interested in.

Don't censor me!

:pac:

later12 · 01-09-2011 1:37pm

AH is a bit bitchy today isn't it?

Is everyone on the blob?

foxyboxer · 01-09-2011 1:37pm

Hmmm? The kid who took the shot didn't actually win? And they didn't get the money? TS

At least they put some of the money to good use.

Cill Dara Abu · 01-09-2011 1:38pm

Saila wrote: »

eh source?

http://thescore.thejournal.ie/no-money-for-miracle-shot-hockey-kid-215664-Sep2011/?utm_source=three&utm_campaign=feedlink&utm_medium=feed

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:38pm

later10 wrote: »

AH is a bit bitchy today isn't it?

Is everyone on the blob?

Man-opause.

foxyboxer · 01-09-2011 1:38pm

later10 wrote: »

AH is a bit bitchy today isn't it?

Is everyone on the blob?

Didn't you know? 1st September is Surly Day on AH.

http://simpsonswiki.net/w/images/thumb/1/1a/Surly-Duff.jpg/200px-Surly-Duff.jpg

Sirsok · 01-09-2011 1:38pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndYT-SF7b_0

Totally a jackie moon thing to do

fonecrusher1 · 01-09-2011 1:42pm

later10 wrote: »

AH is a bit bitchy today isn't it?

Is everyone on the blob?

Nah its just people are sick of AH first-post thanks whores.

Im glad there seems to be more of an awareness of the problem. If TW's are spotted quickly & essentially made fools of by other posters then they will slowly go away. Bit like trolling, except theres is some honour in a well-constructed troll.

Whereas thanks whoring is just....highly nerd-like, sad behaviour.

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:46pm

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Nah its just people are sick of AH first-post thanks whores.

Im glad there seems to be more of an awareness of the problem. If TW's are spotted quickly & essentially made fools of by other posters then they will slowly go away. Bit like trolling, except theres is some honour in a well-constructed troll.

Whereas thanks whoring is just....highly nerd-like, sad behaviour.

Or people who are anti first post and therefore rant about thanks whoring for that reason and don't get the valid point made (again, in my opinion)? So they become thanked for it?

Dunno.

It seems like a lot of energy is wasted on trying to wake people up to the energy they're wasting by rabbling about the small stuff.

I'll go back to crying while masturbating now.

<sings> We are the docile masses, we're the Puppet People.............</sings>

FetchTheGin · 01-09-2011 1:53pm

chin_grin is the 2nd post queen of AH.

Cill Dara Abu · 01-09-2011 1:53pm

chin_grin wrote: »

Or people who are anti first post and therefore rant about thanks whoring for that reason and don't get the valid point made (again, in my opinion)? So they become thanked for it?

Dunno.

It seems like a lot of energy is wasted on trying to wake people up to the energy they're wasting by rabbling about the small stuff.

I'll go back to crying while masturbating now.

<sings> We are the docile masses, we're the Puppet People.............</sings>

Thanks whoring is fine with me once they are funny but you are not!

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 1:55pm

FetchTheGin wrote: »

chin_grin is the 2nd post queen of AH.

Only on the weekends Dah-ling.

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Thanks whoring is fine with me once they are funny but you are not!

Wasn't trying to be! No, hold back your surprise and cheeky sarcastic replies to that! Honestly.

Jess16 · 01-09-2011 2:11pm

Can't we all be friends?

du Maurier · 01-09-2011 2:12pm

The shot wasn't really that difficult or 'amazing'. He just plumb-lined it in the direction. If he had to lift it it might be more plausible as an amazing shot.

sunflower27 · 01-09-2011 2:17pm

Jess16 wrote: »

Can't we all be friends?

I know. This is breaking my heart.

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 2:20pm

*hugs screen*

Awwwwwwwwwwwww, you guys! I've had caffeine so I'm all better now (ish).

Shake?

sunflower27 · 01-09-2011 2:23pm

Seen this on here before and it made me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wui-PNqJrxs

Sorry, never learnt how to post videos

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 2:28pm

sunflower27 wrote: »

Seen this on here before and it made me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wui-PNqJrxs

Sorry, never learnt how to post videos

You just put the text after the v= between the youtube tags.

Also, mmmmyep.

sunflower27 · 01-09-2011 2:29pm

chin_grin wrote: »

You just put the text after the v= between the youtube tags.

Also, mmmmyep.

Nope, still don't get it

:o

chin_grin · 01-09-2011 2:32pm

sunflower27 wrote: »

Nope, still don't get it :o

The tag should look like this (I'm putting triangle brackets instead of square ones).

<youtube>Wui-PNqJrxs</youtube>

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