A man should be honest and straightforward, not a weasel. If he let his kids get away with that, it's sending them a message saying it's alright to lie.
That farther did what was right. Stand-up move on his part.
Honesty is so rare these days that when it actually happens some people still think that is right calling someone idiot for doing this. This is why this world is a full ****.
The kids leaner a important lesson, you cant teach better. Nice to see they donating for hockey programs.
Completely agree. As a father myself, I like to think I'd do the same thing. That $50K lesson was better than anything one of those kids would have learned at a year of excessively, ridiculously overpriced "education" at US colleges. Good for him.
Completely agree. As a father myself, I like to think I'd do the same thing. That $50K lesson was better than anything one of those kids would have learned at a year of excessively, ridiculously overpriced "education" at US colleges. Good for him.
if u can't afford to get a post secondary education, it severely limits ur opportunities in the future as well as makes ur life much more difficult. That $50k lesson was important however, unless that family is rich, that father is an idiot.
Honesty is so rare these days that when it actually happens some people still think that is right calling someone idiot for doing this. This is why this world is a full ****.
The kids leaner a important lesson, you cant teach better. Nice to see they donating for hockey programs.
Wasn't the father the one who suggested the sibling swap in the first place.
A man should be honest and straightforward, not a weasel. If he let his kids get away with that, it's sending them a message saying it's alright to lie.
That farther did what was right. Stand-up move on his part.
Yes and now they will have to be indebted to the system of debt at least 25 more grand each. Real nice lesson.
The company is a total joke and they are getting MAJOR backlash for it. They have someone deleting all comments on their facebook page basically 24/7.
I know for a fact that my dad wouldn't have told them the truth.
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Yes and now they will have to be indebted to the system of debt at least 25 more grand each. Real nice lesson.
The company is a total joke and they are getting MAJOR backlash for it. They have someone deleting all comments on their facebook page basically 24/7.
The system is designed to put you in debt, but it's easy enough to come out of school with little or no debt. The fact that a man demonstrated that integrity beats money is worth the unwarranted windfall he otherwise would have.
Yep, let's bash the person who did the right thing. How dare he teach his kids a moral lesson and make our world a slightly better place. One day, you may realize that money isn't everything.
Yes and now they will have to be indebted to the system of debt at least 25 more grand each. Real nice lesson.
The company is a total joke and they are getting MAJOR backlash for it. They have someone deleting all comments on their facebook page basically 24/7.
You're completely missing the point in my opinion.
It's not about the money. Real men are honest and straight-forward. That kid won money when he had no right. His brother was supposed to take the shot. Don't matter that they're siblings. What he did was wrong, and his father owned up to it like a real man.
I'd never take money I wasn't entitled to. My old man always told me that you earn your money and make it the right, honest way. Be it work or a contest in this case...
lol @ all the morally upright people in this thread, if they were in the dad's situation you know everyone in this thread wouldn't fess up, unless you were already loaded anyways.
I'd be pissed at my dad if he screwed me over like this, "life lesson" or not. WTF is this, a disney movie?
my problem with this has always been that its a drawing out of X number of people present. Both kids were entrants and the winning ticket I look at as an asset unto itself. Its like the lottery, its only "yours" till you sign your name on the back of the ticket. I realize that they had their names on the ticket but still, it seems like thats an identifier for the ticket and not for the individual who must shoot. Until then, its just one of thousands in a pool. Its not like the kid pushed his brother out of the way or the dad said "no, let your brother do it, he's better".
Just feels like poor taste to me. A kid made a difficult shot, give him the money. Don't punish people for being honest. I know this isn't a place for a rant so I wont go there, it just seems like such a trivial thing to me.
lol @ all the morally upright people in this thread, if they were in the dad's situation you know everyone in this thread wouldn't fess up, unless you were already loaded anyways.
I'd be pissed at my dad if he screwed me over like this, "life lesson" or not. WTF is this, a disney movie?
Seriously.
Everyone always taking the moral high ground on the internet is hilarious.
ya cuz we're gonna have a way to pay for our kids education in the future so they don't have to break their backs doing heavy labour jobs.
So what you're saying is you're such a good father you're going to need your son to make a one in a million shot if you're going to have a way to pay for your kids education?
You make it sound like the father took out 50 grand from the kids college funds because of some gambling addiction? When he sent the other twin down it was so he could enjoy the experience of getting on the ice in front of the crowd and have a good time, not because he was banking on him winning 50 grand!
Maybe being a good father, he didn't need the money to send his kids to college because he already put money aside to send them regardless of the 50 grand they never planned to get?
Am I the only one who see's how ironic it is that everyone is calling him a bad father because he didn't take the money for his kids education when in reality if he was a good father he never should have needed it?
Why is it that the father who NEEDS the 50 thousand to send their kids to college and is willing to lie to get it is the good father but the one who doesn't need the money and would rather teach their kids that dishonestly taking 50 thousand dollars is a big deal is the "idiot"?
my problem with this has always been that its a drawing out of X number of people present. Both kids were entrants and the winning ticket I look at as an asset unto itself. Its like the lottery, its only "yours" till you sign your name on the back of the ticket. I realize that they had their names on the ticket but still, it seems like thats an identifier for the ticket and not for the individual who must shoot. Until then, its just one of thousands in a pool. Its not like the kid pushed his brother out of the way or the dad said "no, let your brother do it, he's better".
Just feels like poor taste to me. A kid made a difficult shot, give him the money. Don't punish people for being honest. I know this isn't a place for a rant so I wont go there, it just seems like such a trivial thing to me.
This. If any bashing needs to be going on, it should be directed towards the corporation. Twins are practically the same person anyway
if u can't afford to get a post secondary education, it severely limits ur opportunities in the future as well as makes ur life much more difficult. That $50k lesson was important however, unless that family is rich, that father is an idiot.
