Iowa Lottery requires winners to sign tickets

A winner is a winner no matter who has it. People do not deserve what they get if they do not know how much they won. Some people have crazy ideas what is right and wrong. Self scanners that tell the amount won are good. Signing the ticket is great and a receipt is good. So many people do whatever they like on the assumption that they will not get caught. The test of true character is not what people do when others are watching, but what people do when they are alone, in the dark. Many are found wanting. The people who win need the money too and the little old lady who has won with no idea may need to pay rent, buy groceries, pay her bills. She may buy a ticket on a whim and hope for a miracle but not remember to check until she finds it in her purse. The retailer who steals her winnings is stealing her destiny for a little happiness. People who are caught should not just pay back the winnings; they should repay the pain and suffering for stealing a little happiness in an otherwise dark life. A nice figure is 5x the amount in pain and suffering to be paid with assets or in nice painful monthly installments. I am sick to the teeth of this victimization due to chance opportunity. In my community an ex-nurse walked into a local hospice and disconnected the dying patients morphine drips and stole the drugs to sell and line her pockets. This is a sad world sometimes and opportunity crimes deprive needy people not only of money but dreams and hope.