Christian Lopez is a 23 year old verizon employee who has accumulated $100,000 in student loan debt. Lopez is also the guy who caught Derek Jeter's home run that gave his 3,000th hit. Most people in this country are blood suckers who would have taken the ball and sold it at auction. Experts guess it would have gone for $250 Large.
Personally, I think I would have been one of those blood suckers. But not Lopez. He returned the ball to Jeter and only wanted his picture taken with the future Hall of Famer. Since this ball is headed for Cooperstown the Yankees wanted to show Lopez their gratitude. They gave him four box seats in the luxury section for the rest of the year. He will also get play-off seats. the Yanks threw in bats, balls, all kinds of Bronx Bomber memorabilia. It's almost like the kid won the lottery. Yipper! The IRS decided to step in, calculated the cost of the 'gift's and nailed Lopez with a $14,000 tax bill. Can't you imagine some guy at the IRS sitting around his office thinking, "how can I be a huge Holstein cow paddy today"? Lopez had the right attitude saying the government is only doing their job but, inside, deep inside, don't you think he has other thoughts?
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