Sopranos' Vinny Vella fumes over $5M lotto misprint

Scratchers are like checks. The numbers that matter are printed twice, once as numbers and a second time as words.  If the number he thinks is a 1 doesn't say "one" under it, then it's not a 1. Thinking you won doesn't mean squat when your ticket isn't really a winner.

I agree 100%.  For them to allow 4500 tickets to be sold with a known error that could indicate false positives...I say they should eat this one and pay the man the money.

$5,000,000 to the NY Lotto is POCKET CHANGE.  I believe it is an appropriate penalty for their incompetence in not preventing these tickets from being delivered to the end buyer.  It will be a message to other lotteries to GET IT RIGHT when they print their tickets.  God forbid a single mother on welfare with 4 kids get this ticket and believe her prayers had been answered.

"You know what I look like after telling everybody I won? I look like some big ass."

Then just shaddupa you face!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs

When I read this it reminded me of the scene in goodfellas where Frankie Carbone is saying he can't hit a number.  LOL

Frankie Carbone: I could never hit that number
[unintelligible]
Tommy DeVito: Frankie, Frankie, Frankie. What the f... does 528 have to do with 460? I can't believe this guy. F...in' 528 ain't even close to 460. Now what the f... does that got to do with anything?
Frankie Carbone: Eh, I been playin' that numba for three years

Normally, I would say tough luck, but they acknowledged that the tickets were defected and allowed them to be sold anyway. 4500 of them, and those suckers cost $20 each. That's $90,000 worth of defected tickets. That's way too much. I hope he wins in this case.

This happened in Florida twice before.

VINNY WILL WIN  either 5 MIL, OR  100 MILLION- minus fees( 35%)   so  its  5  or 65   ny lottery will loose

i don't understand, don't they let the computer do this? Computers don't maker errors, they can't possibly make errors...Why don't they let the computer take over the situation....

That's exactly what they did, Pumpi.  It's not a winner, but the man who bought the ticket is upset because it appeared to be one when he scratched it.  This has happened before as someone pointed out in another post.  The bottom line is, when they scan the ticket, that's what they use to determine the outcome.  There will always be printing errors, so people need to check everything on a scratch ticket carefully.  Personally, I don't buy them.

They shoped this on the news, and the news report said they can't show a lottery ticket (didn't explain why not) so they showed an artist's rendition.

This is kind of flaky, but underneath the numbers on this ticket, where the numbers are writtne out, the written out number said SEVTN. Vellas was saying change that T to an E and it spells SEVEN and that was the misprint, that it was a 7.

When I saw this I checked an Illinois scratcher and if the number is 17 it is written SVTN.