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Gambling Of Any Kind Is Not A Sin!!Reply
Its a sin when it turns into an addiction and you commit sins just to gamble. (ie: theft)
Oct 23, 2008, 1:05 am - kwint - Lottery Discussion Forum

Stolen lottery ticket wins suspect a trip to jailReply
At first it does, but it's probably just a petty theft conviction. I wonder if the amount is based on the 400 tickets or the $15 prize? If he had scratched off the other 399 and won a million dollars, would that be grand theft if he attempted to cash it? Something is missing from this story. Where did he get them in the first place? Obviously this young man is needy if he rushed to collect $15. I don't think a long jail sentence for a non-violent crime is necessary.
Apr 18, 2008, 5:34 pm - justxploring - Lottery News

Should tax payers be paid back after a winReply
The question implies that the taxpayers would see a cent of this returned money. It should never have been taken to begin with. An involuntary fee, tax, or whatever-new-name-it's-given is not assistance, it's theft. It's theft if I steal your grandchild's new bicycle and give it to some kid down the street who N E E D S it more. It's theft if the gov't takes your money in the form of higher property taxes, converts (ahem ... conversion) it into a welfare check, and gives the check to someo
Dec 8, 2007, 1:15 pm - time*treat - Lottery Discussion Forum

What lottery game?Reply
I don't pay scratch off mainly because I never win, and secondly there seems to be a lot of theft of winnings on scratch off tickets from the store clerks.
May 3, 2007, 12:14 pm - bambini - Lottery Discussion Forum

Woman 'hiding lottery win from husband'Reply
ummmm, isn't it marital money and isn't he entitled just like here in the U.S. Sounds like theft to me.
Jan 20, 2006, 10:03 pm - jeffrey - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket purchased with stolen credit cardReply
Gargil; The only thing I can think to say is this, your nuts. If a ticket is stolen, and it is proven, you don't get to keep the winnings. Theft is theft, plain and simple. the women should not have been using her dead mother's card unless she was on file with the credit card company. The credit card company can prosecute her and win big time if she wasn't allowed to use the thing, that is just plain crazy to think otherwise. Unfortunately Possession is nine tenths the law does not apply.
Nov 1, 2005, 3:14 pm - Darth Tigger - Lottery News

N.C. man charged in lottery theftNews Story
A North Carolina man was arrested last week in connection with stealing lottery tickets from a Hilton Head Island convenience store, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office incident report.Gary Lake Stith, 42, of Littleton, N.C., was charged with violating the South Carolina Education Lottery Act on Jan. 5 and booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center. Stith was released Jan. 6 after posting $10,000 in bond, according to the jail's online log.The incident report states that survei
Jan 10, 2005, 11:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

S.C. man sentenced for lottery ticket theftNews Story
A Ridgeland, South Carolina man was sentenced to time served, restitution and three years of probation in Beaufort County General Sessions Court Monday after pleading guilty to 12 charges of trying to cash stolen lottery tickets, court records state.Albert Garvin, 37, was arrested last December on charges that he tried to cash the stolen lottery tickets at Publix on Pembroke Drive and the Shell gas station at the intersection of William Hilton Parkway and Spanish Wells Road, the Beaufort County
Sep 2, 2004, 8:02 am - Todd - Lottery News

Store clerk accused of stealing lottery winningsNews Story
Port Washington, Wisconsin police have cited a convenience store clerk for theft after he allegedly pocketed a customer's $250 in lottery winnings.A Port Washington Police Department report gave this account:Theresa Momper, 52, of Port Washington said she went to the Quik Stop Shoppe South, 1100 S. Spring St., April 21 and asked the clerk to verify that she had a winning lottery ticket worth $250. The clerk, Donald J. Malzewski, 20, allegedly scanned the ticket and told Momper that she was mista
Apr 28, 2004, 7:44 am - Todd - Lottery News

200 stolen tickets produce $11 in prizes and an arrestNews Story
Carlisha Johnson didn't have much luck with more than $200 worth of lottery scratch-off tickets: She collected only eleven-dollars.From there, her luck went straight downhill after she was arrested last week for allegedly stealing the tickets from the Mandeville-area convenience store where she worked.Johnson is accused of swiping 216 lottery tickets from the store and scratching them off in full view of a surveillance camera.James Hartman, a spokesman for the Saint Tammany Parish sheriff, says
Mar 31, 2004, 4:48 am - Todd - Lottery News