User blog comment:Green Ninja/IMPORTANT NOTICE: Away Again and Exciting News/@comment-4500149-20120705035750/@comment-4500149-20120705235043

They would if the co-founder of Club Penguin asked them to. ;) And maybe it was hard for him to say no to a small boy asking for the Beta Hat. Maybe Merrifield he has a soft spot for kids. If he did, it wouldn't be a surprise, would it? Anyway, like I said, it's unknown whether CP ever removed the item from his account or not. I don't know if they would actually do that to him, but I just searched his username in the buddy list search thing and it just showed a black penguin. So I guess his membership expired and he just quit or something.