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Email Prompts Man to Attend Stranger's Bachelor Party in Vermont

vatstep

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https://www.necn.com/news/new-engla...ttend-Strangers-Bachelor-Party-504484142.html
A typo in an email address connected total strangers—and will result in an unlikely guest at a party in Vermont this weekend.

"I try to be open to things in life," said Will Novak of Arizona, who was accidentally invited to the bachelor party of a man he never met.

A typo meant the invitation went to Will instead of to Bill Novak of Brooklyn, because their email addresses—like their names—are just a single letter off from one another.
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The invitation was to a bachelor party for a man named Angelo, and will be held this weekend at Vermont's Okemo Mountain Resort.

Will Novak responded to the misdirected message, accepting the invitation, because he said he thought Angelo and his friends seemed cool.

"The fact they wrote back and met me at my level of intensity and enthusiasm and were like, 'You seem great, you're hilarious, come on out—let's have fun,' was amazing," Will Novak said.
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What say you, Era? Would you travel 2,500 miles to go to a stranger's bachelor party?
 
Masoyama

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Holy shit this poor guy is going to Okemo this weekend? The resort sucks even in the best conditions. Try to hang out with strangers under a yard of snow and in -25 C weather.
 
Doctoglethorpe

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It hasn't actually happened yet? This story was written too early. Now if something crazy happened, like he turned out to be rich and gifted the bachelor a Tesla with a crate of cocain or something inside it, that's a story.
 
Mona

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i dont want to be rude, but how is this news, like how the hell did news outlets get ahold of this info?

did the guy who got invited just decide "this is good shit i better call the local station"?

and to top it all off, the event hasn't even happened yet, making the whole news story that much more bizarre
 
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vatstep

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Mona said:
i dont want to be rude, but how is this news, like how the hell did news outlets get ahold of this info?

did the guy who got invited just decide "this is good shit i better call the local station"?
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I don't know, but dumb/lighthearted stories in the news are one of the few things that get me through the day
 
bremon

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Lord Vatek said:
I've never been stabbed, but I imagine this is how people get stabbed.
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Lol. "I'm well adjusted and have solely the best of intentions; may I travel 2500 miles to introduce myself in person?". Whole flight he listens to Robert Palmer and Huey Lewis & the News. His raincoat is in his carry on.
 
Stiler

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Fat4all said:
seems like a pointless affair overall
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Why? A strange mishap led this guy to make new friends and he's going to bring money that he raised by sharing this story to help them pay for the wedding.

It's a feel good story that all of them will have to share for the rest of their lives and he might very well become good friends with them too.
 
RestEerie

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Sounds like the opening synopsis of a new slasher franchise....

The Unassuming
The Unassuming 2: Assumed the Worse
The Unassuming 3: Extreme Assumption
The Un4ssuming
 
Drain You

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This sounds like a story me or my friend group would be involved in, either side.

Seems p awesome, I approve.

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Why? A strange mishap led this guy to make new friends and he's going to bring money that he raised by sharing this story to help them pay for the wedding.

It's a feel good story that all of them will have to share for the rest of their lives and he might very well become good friends with them too.
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Glad I'm not the only one who has nothing but positive feelings as a takeaway from this story.
 
minus_me

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Last time I was in Vermont I paid for an entire bachelor party randomly. I like you Vermont peeps.
 
BarryFishFinger

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Mona said:
i dont want to be rude, but how is this news, like how the hell did news outlets get ahold of this info?

did the guy who got invited just decide "this is good shit i better call the local station"?

and to top it all off, the event hasn't even happened yet, making the whole news story that much more bizarre
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Ha, that's what I thought.

I actually got an email the other day clearly not for me from a well known car dealership confirming the £7,500 price I'd agreed to part exchange my car for. This means I'm now driving 300 miles to Scotland and trading in my car because WHAT A STORY.
 
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Mona said:
i dont want to be rude, but how is this news, like how the hell did news outlets get ahold of this info?

did the guy who got invited just decide "this is good shit i better call the local station"?

and to top it all off, the event hasn't even happened yet, making the whole news story that much more bizarre
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I dunno man, I vastly prefer a thread about a dumb, light-hearted story than yet another thread about everyone dogpiling over something stupid a celebrity may or may not have said.
 
Aftermath

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If I got an email like that, I'd put it in the spam folder with everything else, like the Million Dollars offers from relatives that don't exist, just assume its Scam, Spam or Not for me as in misdirected email.
 
Vaco6121

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https://www.thisisinsider.com/will-...r-bachelor-party-mistakenly-invited-to-2019-1

He actually went.

"After a 2,500-mile flight from Phoenix to Boston, Novak made it to the party. And it was fun! "When I walked in, there were fireworks going off around him, he was standing on top of a bass drum, and he was shredding some metal on a guitar," Novak said of the moment he met Angelo and his friends. "It was quite the introduction. It was pretty intense." But the best part, he said, was meeting the other Will Novak, whose invitation he had mistakenly received. The Arizona man said that in addition to a name, the men had a lot in common — including taste in movies and music."
 
Notaskwid

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If I had the time and money, sure
The better question is who the hell invites someone for a party through email. Guess the fax machine was broken.
 
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Heeeeeeey Will ya made it (under breath) I can't believe he actually showed up
 
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Vaco6121 said:
https://www.thisisinsider.com/will-...r-bachelor-party-mistakenly-invited-to-2019-1

He actually went.

"After a 2,500-mile flight from Phoenix to Boston, Novak made it to the party. And it was fun! "When I walked in, there were fireworks going off around him, he was standing on top of a bass drum, and he was shredding some metal on a guitar," Novak said of the moment he met Angelo and his friends. "It was quite the introduction. It was pretty intense." But the best part, he said, was meeting the other Will Novak, whose invitation he had mistakenly received. The Arizona man said that in addition to a name, the men had a lot in common — including taste in movies and music."
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Ha, nice. I had honestly forgotten about this so thanks for the update.
 

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Mona said:
i dont want to be rude, but how is this news, like how the hell did news outlets get ahold of this info?

did the guy who got invited just decide "this is good shit i better call the local station"?

and to top it all off, the event hasn't even happened yet, making the whole news story that much more bizarre
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This is true reporting, getting the news from the beat of the streets.
 

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Aftermath said:
If I got an email like that, I'd put it in the spam folder with everything else, like the Million Dollars offers from relatives that don't exist, just assume its Scam, Spam or Not for me as in misdirected email.
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My email address is apparently very similar to a beef jerky company, and I get SOOOOOO many dumb emails my way from fans of their beef jerky. It takes all my will power to not reply to them snarkily. Like one woman wrote asking what we put in our beef jerky to make them taste so good and like a million ideas went off in my mind before I filed the email away as spam.
 
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Vaco6121 said:
https://www.thisisinsider.com/will-...r-bachelor-party-mistakenly-invited-to-2019-1

He actually went.

"After a 2,500-mile flight from Phoenix to Boston, Novak made it to the party. And it was fun! "When I walked in, there were fireworks going off around him, he was standing on top of a bass drum, and he was shredding some metal on a guitar," Novak said of the moment he met Angelo and his friends. "It was quite the introduction. It was pretty intense." But the best part, he said, was meeting the other Will Novak, whose invitation he had mistakenly received. The Arizona man said that in addition to a name, the men had a lot in common — including taste in movies and music."
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This is so fucking charming, it's like an episode of a cute television show
 
Aftermath

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Krejlooc said:
My email address is apparently very similar to a beef jerky company, and I get SOOOOOO many dumb emails my way from fans of their beef jerky. It takes all my will power to not reply to them snarkily. Like one woman wrote asking what we put in our beef jerky to make them taste so good and like a million ideas went off in my mind before I filed the email away as spam.
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Haha what a pain to deal with
 
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Croc Man

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Oh that video ruined it, I was hoping he'd go to the wedding, fall in love with a bridesmaid and get married himself. That's less charming now I know he's already married with a kid.
 
CrankyJay

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I have a friend with a common email address who gets wrong emails all the time and replies to them for fun. I could see this happening to him.
 
flatearthpandas

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Sounds great, I love these stories. When I was in school aim used to fuck up and randomly deliver messages to other people. I had chat buddies for years from other parts of the country because of that glitch. Take advantage of these strange opportunities to meet people
 
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