| Posted: January 13, 2008, 4:49 am - IP Logged |
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No, the article said a clerk at the store told her it was a winner. The owner of the ticket left it there because she was excited or forgetful or something. She realized later she had left it and went back to retrieve it. That's when the perp, the store manager, five-fingered it.
Right, Lilly. I remember when LP first posted this news article. The winner was probably so surprised she ran out and then realized how foolish she'd been, since she didn't get anything for validation. Read the story I just posted about the time a teller shorted me $1,800 and I didn't notice the discrepancy right away. It was an honest mistake, but I'm usually extremely careful. Still, as you pointed out, people do spaced out things under stress and they shouldn't be punished for them by dishonest hoodlums. Although it only happened to me once, I left my plastic sleeve on the counter at a store several years ago with my tickets in it. The store clerk chased after me and that night I definitely would have given her a portion of my jackpot had I won.
A weekend in jail isn't a picnic. I've never been arrested in my life, but I once visited someone at the county jail and it isn't pretty. I never saw the inside, only where you talk on the phone, but it was very noisy and musty. I do agree her sentence is light, but the jails & prisons are very overcrowded, so I guess it's best to leave a cell available for someone more violent. She'll probably learn her lesson after spending a few weekends in the slammer.
