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- meshman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58Welcome to Ontario, Canada. This kind of thing is one of our biggest scandals. Retailers would check a person's ticket and say they didn't win. They'd then keep the ticket and cash it in themselves. Yes, I know, people should check their own numbers but this was happening a lot.
- stringofnumbers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+56In 2001 I won $50 from a scratch off ticket. Excited I went to the gas station and tried to turn it. The woman, a fat black lady scanned it and said "This is a fake ticket." and put the ticket into her smock. I told her I didn't believe that. I had bought it the day before from this very store. . "You telling a lie cause this is a fake." came her reply.
"Fine, whatever. Give me my ticket back."
She said. "No. It's mine now. I got to report it."
I was calm until then but now I knew something was up. If it was a fraud she would of tore it up or gave it back to me. "Give me my ticket." I demanded. She yelled at me to get out of the store or she would call the police. I told her to call the police because I wasn't leaving without my ticket.
Another person came in while I was yelling that and she yelled "I'll call the police!"
"Call the ***** police!" I yelled back.
The guy said "Hey, leave her alone."
"She stole my ticket. I'll call the cops myself." So I got my cell phone out and called the police. I explained what was going on. The cops came out and she told them that I had come in with a fraud ticket and when she wouldn't cash it I called her "a ***** and a whore" and tried to rob the store. I tell them to check the ticket and check the cameras. The officer, also black, looked at the ticket and said it looked real to him and told her to call her manager so they could look at the videos. She said she couldn't get the manager.
The cop threatened to take us the the police station to sort this out. She said "You ***** uncle tom taking' his side! It's a fake ticket." This tactic didn't work very well for her. So he told her to get from behind the counter and he started to cuff her. She flipped out and started kicking and and started to run toward the door when the other guy in the shop tripped her. The cop pulled out his mace sprayed her.
I'm ***** shocked. More cops came, the woman is taken away, and the store owner shows up. The video and the thing she scanned my ticket into showed that the clerk was ***** crazy and a thief and that I was owed $50. The owner of the store, which I was a regular at, knew my face and for the next year or so every time I came in and he was there I got free food from their kitchen.
The crazy thief went to jail. I didn't have to testify or anything because she plead no contest. - Al3x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40@JCSaint...
You have two "Step 2"s... - terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Here are some steps you can take to secure your lottery winnings:
http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/lottery-winners/ - SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26@freakoid
Why would they take out a bank loan? It's not like that's enough to quit their job and retire. The type of person that thinks that way will probably be filing for bankruptcy 5-10 years after winning the lottery. - Al3x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25A bank loan they have to pay interest on....
More like skeezy cashiers could just do their job instead of robbing people and leaving the country... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Dude, you're allowed to say '*****'.
- Sp4nk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22"...but you have to give the guy a little credit for at least trying something new... it was somewhat ingenious."
Yeah, because stealing a lottery ticket has never ever been done before. - speedk0re, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21anyone else think that chick looks like the walrus that has bucket?
- saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Yeah, it's called 'age'
- psYcon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14"Prepare to scour the the Earth for that *****. If Ong goes to Indochina, I want a ***** waiting in a bowl of rice ready to pop a cap in his ass."
- durzagott, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13"I hate black people that steal" = "I hate people that steal"
There, fixed that for ya. - Rammsteined, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Yes, and in America you use guns as currency...
- NSResponder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8So, she got herself a stretch in jail over a lousy $50 she was trying to steal from you?
Amazing.
-jcr - Crispin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That's one of the worst written news stories I've ever read. I could comprehend what happened but it was like watching Lost. It jumped back and forth through a timeline for no discernible reason.
- moogle516, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The article says this took place in Australia, did you fail reading comprehension?
- tinman79, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8umm.. thats why he withdrew the cash and left the country. He's a half mil richer what does he care. Though I do hope they catch him and put him away for a long time.
- sacherjj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And then you would have followed her to jail.
- P4R4DOX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Woman, was she? How relevant.
- Supurcell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I think the "Dollaridoo" is their official currency, mate.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Black, was she? How relevant.
- jguy584, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Here in the states (or at least NJ) the lottery machines have a screen facing the customer that tells them whether or not they won. Seems to me like a simple solution to the problem.
Also if I ever won that much money I would go directly to the states lottery office. - razrielle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Aw man, i just shot marvin in the head
- moofer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Generally, if you lose your ticket, and it does not have your signature on it, anyone can claim the ticket."
This is why you take photographs and make photocopies. Also, if you can't manage to hang onto a 3" x 4" scrap of paper worth millions of dollars, you probably don't deserve it in the first place. - moosepile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Check out what has been happening up in Canuckistan, many hosings:
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/luckofthedraw/index.html
I don't recall the exact figure, but the percentage of lotto retailers in Canada winning big prizes was very high. - Ebeniz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6not really... how do you know they are scanning YOUR ticket and not a dummy ticket they have stashed under the counter?
- moojj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Did you even read the article?
- JohnSteel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/lottery-winners/
"Don't sign the ticket."
This is very bad advice.
http://www.nylottery.org/ny/nyStore/cgi-bin/ProdSubEV_Cat_333603_NavRoot_306.htm
"Generally, if you lose your ticket, and it does not have your signature on it, anyone can claim the ticket." - Suplyndmnd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Why does the email I just got about a multinational lottery that I just won millions in, seem a LOT more safe than this now?
- MrZop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4don't people sign the tickets anymore? Most lotto tickets have space on it for your name / number / address. write it in pen and then take it to the store to get checked. that's what i do. win or lose. that way nobody else can claim your ticket.
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4terminalpariah,
the thing about setting up a blind trust before claiming the winnings is pretty interesting. - lunarworks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think it may have happened to me once.
The cashier at this one store usually gave me the receipt on winning tickets (usually lousy "free tickets"), but this one time she didn't (she quickly said "two dollars" and gave me a toonie) and I was in too much of a rush to get to work to notice.
I still wonder. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you live in Ontario, just sign the back of your tickets before getting them checked. Better safe than sorry. Ever since that scandal i've noticed more little machines on countertops that allow you to scan the lottery tickets yourself to check for winners as well.
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It was definately a scummy thing to do. But, put in a similar situation with a very good chance of getting away with it (and possibly for an even larger sum of money) I wonder how many people here would have at least contemplated doing the same thing?
I'm sure the guy who did this might feel a little guilty - but considering the half million dollars he made from it is more money than he, or any of his relatives are likely to see over a lifetime - I can't help thinking that all's well that ends well. I mean he got his money and the real winners got their money too, so it seems that it's a story of all's well that ends well.
Maybe my morality is a little skewed - but the lottery organisers were promoting gambling anyway - and it makes a change for Casinos and gambling organisations like this to get ripped off, rather than ripping everyone else off. - Domiko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, this all seems like old news. As a retail outlet employee in a small Ontario town, I have definitely noticed the changes implemented by the OLG over the past months, following the scandals.
Self ticket-checkers, mandatory ticket signing, anal rape, all the good stuff.
They even took the code off of Instant scratch tickets that told retailers what the customer has won, because retailers were making small scratches over these codes, with the goal of finding the winners and sell the losers.
It's all crap anyway. Just don't play the lottery. - cis4smack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That just shows people are corrupted by money and will do anything to get it. I sure like the world i live in!
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Liar! There is no crime in Canada, only pink-scrubbed, smiling faces and poutine.
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not a big fan of lotteries either, but at least in gambling it is commonly understood that the casino or lottery organizers will rip you off. Some people like gambling enough to continue to do it knowing that in the long run they will lose. This clerk stole money from someone who trusted him not to. There is a big difference. Lottery companies print the odds of winning on the ticket and other places, so do casinos. It's not robbery if the robber says hand me twenty bucks and there's a good chance you will never get the twenty bucks back. It's just stupidity if you give the guy twenty bucks.
- gary7128, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1Generally, if you lose your ticket, and it does not have your signature on it, anyone can claim the ticket. it is true!
http://www.america-lottery.info - qwerty1263, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea what are backpackers? Are they from Green Bay? Were these school kids with their backpacks? Next....are were going to bring back the term .....carpetbaggers? JK....I guess they mean hikers maybe or were they homeless and living out of their backpacks?
The thing about lottery tickets is in my state they'll only allow you to purchase tickets of any kind with cash. I find this an easy way to leave no paper trail as to the real owner of the ticket. If you ask me, they should allow you to purchase tickets with a debit card or some other means of tracing the sale. I understand my state say they don't want people charging their tickets and getting themselves into credit problems with credit cards but that's nuts if you ask me there are too many ways to bet with credit cards. - chuckpenzone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2In all seriousness is the one on the left a woman or man?
- bobish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3snipe!
- xconverge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Win 4 life is the bomb diggity.
- MattFaber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If I had won that much I would backpack myself all the way to the main lottery building, regardless of how far it was.
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Backpackers = Hikers in Europe. Ex. Bob and Alice went Backpacking across Europe.
I don't know why I felt compelled to reply. Maybe I'm hoping that I misunderstood some form of sarcasm. If you really didn't know it's cool, now you do but next time use Wikipedia. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wonder which one is Mei-Yin Lee
- nogami, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Here are some steps you can take to secure your lottery winnings:"
There is some good advice there, but I think there's also some very bad advice. I would still sign the ticket, even if it meant giving up some potential information (like my name). It's an iron-clad claim of ownership even if it's stolen from you at gunpoint.
I suppose you could follow those bits of advice if you want to blow-off all of your friends and co-workers if you hit a big lottery strike. Personally, I'm not that much of an *****, and I wouldn't avoid people like that. I'd get an unlisted phone number, and move to a new address, but that's about it. - Conwaysb0718, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Backpackers" is that a new term or regional slang?
- MadMaxx426, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just felt like saying it eh? Because....the story had nothing to do with the US.
Be sure to tip your waitress on your way out. Thanks! - su1man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would probably take it too, a convenient store? those places look like hell to work in..im surprised i don't see the clerk hanging by a noose every time i go into one
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