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Man claims he's owed Mega Millions in suit against Illinois Lottery
Mobile, AL and Jasper, TN United States Member #13647 April 5, 2005 1562 Posts Offline |
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I don't believe an altered ticket had anything to do with it but the article is lacking in all the details. No, but there have been NUMEROUS attempts by complete idiots to collect using altered tickets. Like the lady from New York that taped two tickets together... I would say if it's not altered... There is something.
How are you going to win if you don't play?
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 17054 Posts Online |
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No, but there have been NUMEROUS attempts by complete idiots to collect using altered tickets. Like the lady from New York that taped two tickets together... I would say if it's not altered... There is something.
Wasn't that a great story? 
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Mobile, AL and Jasper, TN United States Member #13647 April 5, 2005 1562 Posts Offline |
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Wasn't that a great story? That was great!!! I still laugh about it today. Just look at the ticket. OH, those numbers on the bottom don't mean anything!!! And that is $10 under the 9... Not forty which is printed below it... That must have been a typo right?
Either way, I have a problem trusting what people say. ESPECIALLY when money is involved. How are you going to win if you don't play?
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Scratcher Nut Talking Rock, GA United States Member #60856 April 15, 2008 394 Posts Offline |
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No, but there have been NUMEROUS attempts by complete idiots to collect using altered tickets. Like the lady from New York that taped two tickets together... I would say if it's not altered... There is something.
HA! That reminds me of something a long time ago, when the GA Lottery first started (and I was in elementary school). I would see stories on the news about people cutting out the prize amounts from losing tickets and pasting them onto another losing ticket to make it look like they matched 3-like grand prize amounts (and subsequently getting arrested).
The crazy things some people will do... A Gold account on Lottery Post: $4.95
An Extreme Green few Quick $50 scratchers: $5
Airfare and hotel in March 2007 to see The Price Is Right before Bob Barker retired: $600-something
Watching Reed Sorenson get into victory lane for the 1st time in 2009: Priceless 
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Tralfamadore / Zeta Riticuli Star System United States Member #30849 January 17, 2006 4175 Posts Offline |
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Because it says East St Louis this smacks of a Jesse Jackson style shakedown attempt.
Find a cash-rich target, in this case the lottery.
Threaten them with "bad pr" if they don't give in.
Hopefully you've picked a target (chump) that will settle out of court even if you are wrong.
I think the clown in East st Louis is actually thinking he can appeal this one all the way up to Obama. It's Lotto, not horseshoes or artillery!
Close doesn't count!
I sell everything at a loss but make up for it in volume
- Milo Minderbinder, Catch-22
There are two kinds of jackpot winners...the ones who remained anonymous and the ones that wish they had.
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United States United States Member #68752 December 16, 2008 124 Posts Offline |
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HMMMMMMMM
I am still scratching my head....not enough info "Wait eagerly for the Lord, and keep to the way; God wil raise you to possess the land; you will gloat when the wicked are cut off".
Psalms 37:34
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NY United States Member #24178 October 16, 2005 1739 Posts Offline |
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I don't understand how they can just refuse to pay someone who has the winning ticket. I don't understand how so many people can read the article and apparently not notice that it has absolutely no information that's actually useful for determining whether or not the guys claim has any legitimacy. According to the article, the guy says he bought a ticket that was a winner and the lottery refused to pay. There's absolutely no information to support his claim.
The only thing I feel sure about based on the article is that the guy went whining to a newspaper and the paper wrote a story, seemingly without investigating the claim or contacting the lottery.
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Raleigh United States Member #49513 January 17, 2007 151 Posts Offline |
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Representing himself?
I suspect if he had a legitimate case that he would have a flock of lawyers begging to represent him.
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10548 Posts Offline |
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Representing himself?
I suspect if he had a legitimate case that he would have a flock of lawyers begging to represent him. The problem is he never said how much he is owed. The cost of a flock of lawyers could exceed the amount of the prize if he didn't do better than a 4+1. Beside if the state used the prize to repay money owed the state, it could all be gone. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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United States Member #63852 July 26, 2008 1417 Posts Offline |
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Medication Time! Go to the half door!
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Atlanta, GA United States Member #1288 March 13, 2003 2632 Posts Offline |
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He had a year to make his claim, if he waited longer then Illinois owes him nothing. Sounds like he want the court to say that rule shouldn't apply in his case.  Rules are rules ..... snooze you lose.
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Viva La Chance! Rockville, MD. United States Member #44542 July 30, 2006 1628 Posts Offline |
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Irrational stuff, probably some type of drug abuse.
What is your conceptual continuity?
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