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Men who threw away $100,000 scratch ticket now seek prize
Men who threw away $100,000 scratch ticket now seek prizePosted: 2/25/2005 2:12:00 PM  Two men who say they bought a scratch-off lottery ticket and threw it away are seeking the $100,000 prize a woman claimed after she plucked it from a cafe's trash can. The men -- Ron Douglas of Waldron and Ron Vinson of Shelbyville, Indiana -- have hired a lawyer who said he sent a formal request to Hoosier Lottery officials for a $100,000 payment. Attorney Lee McNeely said he also talked about the situation with Ellen Corcella, the lottery's security director. "The letter that I forwarded to them offered to meet with them at their earliest convenience to work this out in an amicable fashion," McNeely told The Shelbyville News for a story Thursday. The ticket was tossed into the trash at the Chaperral Cafe on Feb. 8 after a clerk told Douglas and Vinson that the $5 ticket wasn't the $40 winner they were hoping it was, lottery officials said. Customer Karrie Jeremiah said she then retrieved the ticket, planning to enter it into a second-chance drawing before later finding out it was a big winner. Lottery officials on Feb. 10 issued Jeremiah a check for $71,600 -- the amount after taxes were withheld. Corcella has said the lottery was looking into the circumstances surrounding how the ticket was discarded in the city about 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis, but believed Jeremiah was the rightful winner. McNeely said his clients believe they were entitled to the money because of "what we believe is a faulty scanning procedure on the lottery machines." Source: AP
South Carolina United States Member #6 November 4, 2001 6145 Posts Offline |
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I knew this was going to happen.
Exact order chaser 
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The center of your brain. *poke* Hurts?, PA United States Member #4139 March 18, 2004 2669 Posts Offline |
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too bad for the men., had they signed the ticket, they would have a case, but it's a matter of finder's keepers. the men may have a god case against the Hoosier Lottery though, since it was their machine that resulted in the discarding of the ticket. I finally got the old domain name back. Go to my website at www.dr-ew.tk. There's still some funny stuff there.
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chicago United States Member #3746 February 10, 2004 382 Posts Offline |
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They are idiots for not knowing the ticket was a winner themselves, but if its true the clerk told them it wasnt a winner based on what the machine said then the machine is liable. Or the employee which would make the store liable. Just hard to tell here if it was an honest mistake or not. Indiana who makes a mint anyway should just pay them off this once time and claim it was an honest mistake. Just fix the RNG for a few drawing to spit out no pick three winners!
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MD United States Member #1735 June 18, 2003 5154 Posts Offline |
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Quote: Originally posted by JAP69 on February 25, 2005
I knew this was going to happen.
Me too........ and i see some polygraph testing in the works if the employee jipped the guys then we'll here more about this story soon. I agree that the guys that bought the ticket should have been able to tell for themselves if it was a winner but who knows they might not be americans and couldn't read it. However they trusted the person to check the ticket as being a winner of a fourty dollar prize they should have just asked if the ticket was a winner period and not threw in that little tidbit about 40 dollars. And if the person actually checked it on the machine then it would have came up a winner. By not responding that they in fact had a winner that employee stole the ticket from them.
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White Mountains AZ United States Member #11349 February 6, 2005 114 Posts Offline |
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I would like to see them check the bank statements of the clerk and see if there was any relationship between the clerk and the customer who took the ticket out of the garbage.
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 9249 Posts Offline |
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These guys are going feel sh**** on if they find out it was just a publicity stump pulled by the actual winner, she can always claim it was just a joke. Ohio once published a story about a $8M jackpot ticket that was canceled by a women who played the wrong numbers by mistake and now most people will buy any extra tickets printed mistakenly rather the have them canceled, I know I do. I doubted the story from the beginning because who would be dumb enough to tell anyone they found something that belonged to someone else if they wanted to keep it for themselves, they would have turned it into the loss and found department in the first place hoped to be rewarded for their honesty. RJOh * Trying is the first step toward failure *
homer J. Simpson
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The center of your brain. *poke* Hurts?, PA United States Member #4139 March 18, 2004 2669 Posts Offline |
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now most states will not cancel tickets. I finally got the old domain name back. Go to my website at www.dr-ew.tk. There's still some funny stuff there.
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 9249 Posts Offline |
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In Ohio, you can still cancel the local games, but not the MegaMillions tickets. RJOh * Trying is the first step toward failure *
homer J. Simpson
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MD United States Member #1735 June 18, 2003 5154 Posts Offline |
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you cant cancel a mega mil ticket in maryland. And you cant cancel some promotionel tickets. You can cancel all others if you do so before the draw. This story is about a scratch off ticket. That an employee pilfered from the customer. It's no wonder the customer found out about it the story about the employee cashing it was all over the internet last week and was even on AOL's front page.
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