🧢 CEO Who Snatched Boy's Hat At US Open Says He Made A 'Huge Mistake'

The man who was caught on camera snatching a hat off a young boy at the US Open has said he made a "huge mistake" after footage of the incident went viral.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And a man does jam nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
You know, we're talking yesterday and you've probably all seen
this footage of the millionaire businessman who snatched a signed
cap or a cap from the hands of a young fan.
So there's a Polish tennis player, his name is Camille Mickshak,
and the crowd was all around him, but he saw
a young kid and so he gave him his hat.

(00:24):
Another man comes up, snatches it, takes it and throws
in his wife's bag. Everyone has seen this. This has
become the new couple on kiss cam at Coldplay. This
guy has been shamed and villified. They found out he
was the CEO of a paving company in Poland, and
everyone just went for him.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I watched that a few times now. I think the
dude didn't know he was taking it from the kid.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, he has said, by way of apology, I'd like
to apologize to the injured boy, his family, as well
as all the fans and the player himself. I made
a huge mistake, he said in emotions in the crowd
rejoicing after the victory. I was convinced. The tennis player
tips his hat in my direction to my sons, who
had asked for an autograph earlier, so he said he

(01:06):
misunderstood the moment. But the whole internet has gone for
him and have given his business terrible ratings. Is pretty
much his business, probably both for tall intents and purposes,
might be over. And then there was another one, now,
this time at a baseball game. And I just saw
that people have been sharing this one. It looks like

(01:27):
one of the guys has grabbed the ball and another
one has snatched it out of his hands. This has
grown men. Now underneath that, someone says, and we've got
another one. You know what to do, meaning, let's set
the internet on them to find them, shame them. They've
taken a close up of their face. Where does this go? Now?
You know what to do? This is like the old

(01:48):
school stoning. We have become the people who say we
don't like your behavior. You have no private moments. We've
decided that you were the bad I'm going to throw
stones at you. We don't know the background to this story.
Maybe the old friends. Maybe they've got some beef that
goes back a long way, and this was We don't
know the story here.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I don't think you can really do jokes on the internet.
I'm finding more and more anything. This isn't a What
I mean is like everything's taken out of context on
the internet. But even if it isn't on social media.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
And we spoke about this that couple on the so
called kiss cam at the Coldplay concert, you know, we
played a bit from a psychologist saying, does this mean
that no one can have a moment of living in
the shadows? There's a thousand reasons why people have affairs.
No one knows the background to this story. And everyone
said they were in a public space. People had very
little sympathy for them. They didn't know they were going
to be shown on that big screen.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
That could happen to you.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
It could happen to you watching a baseball game, and
something happens to you, suddenly you're on the big screen.
Should we be the arbiters?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
What about that time I was at Elton John's concert
and he was doing an incredibly long, boring version of Rocketman,
self indulgent, seventeen mes minute version of Rocketman, and I've gone, oh, get.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Off, done that, just as it invited the cast of
Billy Elliott onto the stage. So it looked, to all
intents and purposes like you were booing the kids from
Billy Elliott.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
When I wasn't I was booing out in John.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, there's a much kind of context behind it