OT: Great Story
If you need to be cheered up a/o your hope in humanity restored.....this is a great story.
Student wins the Compton High School free throw contest ($40k) decides to split the winning money with the seven other finalists.
http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1237085
The event - a foul-shooting contest for top academic students at Compton High School in Los Angeles - was created with a simple premise: Organizers wanted to show the kids at Compton how to create community spirit with college scholarship money as the incentive.........
"I've already been blessed so much and I know we're living with a bad economy, so I know this money can really help my classmates," he said in a release from the school. "It was the right decision."
you are being sarcastic (since when people say cool story in the manner you did, it usually means that), then I'd like to point out that it was, in fact, a cool story.
That is an impressive decision to make for a high school kid.
You don't see too many acts of spontaneous generosity combined with superb sportsmanship nowadays, it seems. Very cool story.