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Eastern Time (GMT-5:00) | Home -> Forums -> Lottery News -> Lottery fight brewing in Massachusetts New Mexico United States Member #12540 March 10, 2005 2987 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 22, 2005, 2:32 pm - IP Logged | |
Really though, how does one put a million dollar ticket in the wrong pile? If you buy a bunch of tickets and scratch them entirely, when you notice that you have won a million dollars you'd stop scratching the others and say something or do something since you just won the big prize. You wouldn't just say to yourself, "Oh it's just a million dollars, let me put it in the winning pile and continue to scratch the other tickets." I think the guy scratched only a certain amount or looked at the code and thought it was a losing ticket or only worth a couple of dollars and put it in the throw-away pile. I agree with you. The human memory tends to be opportunistic, circling around behind to fill in needed gaps in the pre-event reality to shore up a sagging present. The guy obviously didn't know he had a big winner. If he had, he wouldn't have put it in any pile. He'd have carefully finished scratching it, gazed at it, studied it, examined it to figure out how he was reading it wrong, fooling himself. The store owner knew he'd bought a lot of tickets, knew where his bread was likely to be best buttered, and assumed the discarded ticket was among those the big spender threw away. Lawyers and acquaintances don't know any more than we do what actually happened. All we can know is what the selective memories of the store owner and the big spender have retroactively constructed in a best guess scenario to suit their own interests. Jack Absorb the good, ignore the bad, weigh the ugly. It's about number behavior. Egos don't count. Dedicated to the memory of Big Loooser | | |
Greenwich, CT United States Member #4879 May 24, 2004 1822 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 22, 2005, 2:35 pm - IP Logged | |
I'm sorry JAG but I don't see how the lawyer and I had conflicting accounts? As we both stated, he placed the winning ticket into the wrong pile. How is that conflicting if I may ask? You can place a winning ticket into the wrong pile, only if you are aware that it's a winner. The man who bought the tickets was unaware of the $1 million winner, thinking the ticket was a loser, put it into the correct, losing pile. | | |
new delhi India Member #22479 September 20, 2005 174 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 23, 2005, 7:25 am - IP Logged | |
I'm sorry JAG but I don't see how the lawyer and I had conflicting accounts? As we both stated, he placed the winning ticket into the wrong pile. How is that conflicting if I may ask? You can place a winning ticket into the wrong pile, only if you are aware that it's a winner. The man who bought the tickets was unaware of the $1 million winner, thinking the ticket was a loser, put it into the correct, losing pile. 
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Sparta, NJ United States Member #18644 July 9, 2005 1977 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 23, 2005, 9:38 am - IP Logged | |
If you drop a twenty dollar bill on the street and some ones comes behind you and picks it up and walks away, you have made a costly mistake. When you scratch off a million dollar card, miss seeing what you bought the card for in the first place, and then throw it away, you are dumber then a Dung Beatle. Whats scary, is that the idiot probably has a drivers license and is loose on the highways as I write this. 
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Wisconsin United States Member #1642 June 3, 2003 668 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 24, 2005, 1:43 am - IP Logged | |
Confucious says ....Always sign your million dollar scratch off winners  ...before tossing them in the trash. The guy who found "a ticket" in the trash is the bearer. He committed no crime in picking a piece of paper out of the dust-bin and it makes no difference if it was inside or outside the store. Pay to the order of bearer. ... the lottery never fails to surprise! | | |
PA United States Member #23322 October 6, 2005 2006 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 24, 2005, 2:27 am - IP Logged | |
Another case of honesty not actually "paying off." At least I know to never tell anyone if I find a winning ticket that I found it. Because I am sure quite a few people will start having a very astute memory all the sudden about tickets they accidently threw away. | | |
Yinzer Country, PA United States Member #4139 March 18, 2004 2729 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 24, 2005, 5:59 am - IP Logged | |
I'd be a little more concerned that the guy spent over $600 in tickets.
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