Woman gets 30 days for stealing lottery tickets

May 16, 2007, 9:20 am (38 comments)

Ohio Lottery

Used scratch ticket codes to pick out winners

A Heath, Ohio, woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years of community control on Monday after she admitted to stealing lottery tickets she knew were winners.

Courtney L. Carson, 37, was found guilty of grand theft, a fourth-degree felony, after confessing to scanning lottery tickets' bar codes to see if they were winners while working at Heath Carryout between Jan. 15 and April 14, 2006.

Carson, last known address 48 Carey Lane, then cashed the winning tickets elsewhere.

An inventory of the Irving Wick Drive store's lottery tickets revealed about $5,300 worth of lottery tickets were missing, Licking County Assistant Prosecutor Duke Frost said previously.

Frost said as far as authorities know, Carson didn't sell the losing tickets to the store's customers.

Mardele Cohen, director of communications for the Ohio Lottery Commission, said an instant ticket must be scratched to determine if it is a winner — either the playing field or the area covering the bar code.

Carson also was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.

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spy153's avatarspy153

good. I hate crooked clerks.Thumbs Up My husband asked what would prevent clerks from doing this very thing and I couldn't answer him, except to say "I'm sure they have their security measures." Now, I can add this. He was going on about how he didn't trust the kind of scratch offs that you buy from a clerk. He preferred the kind you got out of a vending maching.

irondoor827

This  issue  about  clerks  and  the  lottery  is  serious  accross  the  nation and  it  seems  to  be  happening  a  lot;

The  fact  that  these  people  were  caught  is  good  what  about  the  multitude  that  were  not  caught  and  have  cheated  millions  of  people  from  there  winnings .......money  is  the  root  of   all  evil ......Bash

jeffrey's avatarjeffrey

It looks like it's time to stop buying lottery tickets. Winning doesn't mean "money" anymore; it's more like "maybe money".

justxploring's avatarjustxploring

Having money isn't evil.  Using it to cheat people is.

The popular phrase, which is often misquoted, is from the New Testament (Timothy) and reads

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

 

 

 

DoubleDown

Someone please let us know if a scratch ticket can be scanned ( the bar code ) to determine if it is a winner without uncovering the 3 digit number code.

Inquiring minds want to know....

pumpi76

Quote: Originally posted by DoubleDown on May 16, 2007

Someone please let us know if a scratch ticket can be scanned ( the bar code ) to determine if it is a winner without uncovering the 3 digit number code.

Inquiring minds want to know....

I'll like to know the same information too...If is true i was going to say that she could have gotten away with it if she had the help of a friend (s); she probably was a loner...I feel compasion when woman is a swindler and she does that kind of job by herself and not the help of other males but don't feel compassion when a man does that kind of work...Men are fill with evil..I don't trust them...

 

 

"More important than winning the states' lotteries is the movie "Red Planet..."

justxploring's avatarjustxploring

Quote: Originally posted by pumpi76 on May 16, 2007

I'll like to know the same information too...If is true i was going to say that she could have gotten away with it if she had the help of a friend (s); she probably was a loner...I feel compasion when woman is a swindler and she does that kind of job by herself and not the help of other males but don't feel compassion when a man does that kind of work...Men are fill with evil..I don't trust them...

 

 

"More important than winning the states' lotteries is the movie "Red Planet..."

I would love to agree with you, but then it would be tantamount to admitting that women aren't equal to men and do not have the same capacity for greatness or for failure.

Did you see Enemy Mine?  I've seen it many times.  I bet it is a movie you would really like, Pumpi.   Louis Gossett Jr explains why the Drac world doesn't have 2 sexes. 

Anyway, do you think Ted Bundy was any less evil than Aileen Wuornos?  Both were serial killers and the men she murdered are just as dead as the women he strangled.  The reason those pretty blonde teachers keep getting away with molesting students is because we are a society brainwashed by appearance.  "Too pretty to go to prison" is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in recent years, because Debra LaFave (pretty as she is) still screwed her students and belongs behind bars with the scary looking male crackheads who have snot running down their faces.

(Oy!  Now I'm singing Aqualung.  "Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent.  Snot running down his nose, greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes...")

My point is that evil comes in all colors, sizes and genders. 

DoubleDown

Quote: Originally posted by pumpi76 on May 16, 2007

I'll like to know the same information too...If is true i was going to say that she could have gotten away with it if she had the help of a friend (s); she probably was a loner...I feel compasion when woman is a swindler and she does that kind of job by herself and not the help of other males but don't feel compassion when a man does that kind of work...Men are fill with evil..I don't trust them...

 

 

"More important than winning the states' lotteries is the movie "Red Planet..."

What?  Pumpi , you always leave us guessing.....

pumpi76

Quote: Originally posted by justxploring on May 16, 2007

I would love to agree with you, but then it would be tantamount to admitting that women aren't equal to men and do not have the same capacity for greatness or for failure.

Did you see Enemy Mine?  I've seen it many times.  I bet it is a movie you would really like, Pumpi.   Louis Gossett Jr explains why the Drac world doesn't have 2 sexes. 

Anyway, do you think Ted Bundy was any less evil than Aileen Wuornos?  Both were serial killers and the men she murdered are just as dead as the women he strangled.  The reason those pretty blonde teachers keep getting away with molesting students is because we are a society brainwashed by appearance.  "Too pretty to go to prison" is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in recent years, because Debra LaFave (pretty as she is) still screwed her students and belongs behind bars with the scary looking male crackheads who have snot running down their faces.

(Oy!  Now I'm singing Aqualung.  "Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent.  Snot running down his nose, greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes...")

My point is that evil comes in all colors, sizes and genders. 

you are not going to believe it justxploring but I like that movie very much...I tried in the past to get that movie but no one had it, you could only get it online, and since i don't have a credit card i could order it...I LOVE THAT MOVIE...is Enemy of Mine...Is one of the movies i didn't have in my collection...Well what used to be my collection, for one month i became too regilious and got rid of a lot of movies from my collection (i don't know why i did it) with lot of information and ideas that i had...

What was my collection: (By order of importance)...

Gladiator

Saving private Ryan

Red Planet

Predator 1

Hunt for the Red October

Stargate

The Rock

Armaggeddon

A Beautiful mind

Joan of Arc

Pi

What was missing from my collection (order of importance)

The Fountain

Supernova

The Core

To Build A Fire

The Prestige

Enemy of Mine

Is a wonderful life

Gottica (about super humans not the other gottika)

Vertigo (by same actor as a wonderful life, can't remember his name)

Lost in Space

and waiting to see if "Proof" will join them...I haven't seen the previews of "Proof" just saw1/2 second of the previews...

wizeguy's avatarwizeguy

"Vertigo (by same actor as a wonderful life, can't remember his name)"

 

Jimmy Stewart

irondoor827

Quote: Originally posted by justxploring on May 16, 2007

Having money isn't evil.  Using it to cheat people is.

The popular phrase, which is often misquoted, is from the New Testament (Timothy) and reads

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

 

 

 

your  right  and  I  should  have  qouted  it  from  the  'word'  thanks  for  catching  my  mistake :Dupe Alert

 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1Tim.6:10

pumpi76

Quote: Originally posted by pumpi76 on May 16, 2007

you are not going to believe it justxploring but I like that movie very much...I tried in the past to get that movie but no one had it, you could only get it online, and since i don't have a credit card i could order it...I LOVE THAT MOVIE...is Enemy of Mine...Is one of the movies i didn't have in my collection...Well what used to be my collection, for one month i became too regilious and got rid of a lot of movies from my collection (i don't know why i did it) with lot of information and ideas that i had...

What was my collection: (By order of importance)...

Gladiator

Saving private Ryan

Red Planet

Predator 1

Hunt for the Red October

Stargate

The Rock

Armaggeddon

A Beautiful mind

Joan of Arc

Pi

What was missing from my collection (order of importance)

The Fountain

Supernova

The Core

To Build A Fire

The Prestige

Enemy of Mine

Is a wonderful life

Gottica (about super humans not the other gottika)

Vertigo (by same actor as a wonderful life, can't remember his name)

Lost in Space

and waiting to see if "Proof" will join them...I haven't seen the previews of "Proof" just saw1/2 second of the previews...

i forgot to mention "Swordfish" which is my second most favorite movie...It comes on second place (or importance) below Gladiator....

justxploring's avatarjustxploring

I can't really say what my favorite movie is of all time.  I've watched so many of them for over 40 years.  I guess Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke, The Lion in Winter, Papillon, Benny and Joon, Total Recall, To Kill a Mockingbird, Strangers on a Train, Dances With Wolves, Clockwork Orange, Tom Jones, Annie Hall, The Pawnbroker, Sophie's Choice, Midnight Cowboy, Forrest Gump, Big, Children of a Lesser God, Body Heat, The Untouchables* ....

Nah, can't even begin.

*The scene with the baby carriage in the train station....wow!" 

Wish I hadn't started.  Now more pop up every second like The Green Mile, Butch Cassidy, The Sting, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, Elmer Gantry, Drugstore Cowboy, When Harry Met Sally, Terms of Endearment, Easy Rider.....Someone - please stop me!!!  LOL

LckyLary

Yo Courtney, say hi to Paris while you're in there! (oh wait, different States)

DoubleDown

Quote: Originally posted by justxploring on May 16, 2007

I can't really say what my favorite movie is of all time.  I've watched so many of them for over 40 years.  I guess Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke, The Lion in Winter, Papillon, Benny and Joon, Total Recall, To Kill a Mockingbird, Strangers on a Train, Dances With Wolves, Clockwork Orange, Tom Jones, Annie Hall, The Pawnbroker, Sophie's Choice, Midnight Cowboy, Forrest Gump, Big, Children of a Lesser God, Body Heat, The Untouchables* ....

Nah, can't even begin.

*The scene with the baby carriage in the train station....wow!" 

Wish I hadn't started.  Now more pop up every second like The Green Mile, Butch Cassidy, The Sting, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, Elmer Gantry, Drugstore Cowboy, When Harry Met Sally, Terms of Endearment, Easy Rider.....Someone - please stop me!!!  LOL

Well, since we are on the movie topic, here are my all timers.................

 

The Shawshank Redemption

Goodfellas

Casino

Cool Hand Luke

Die Hard

Gladiator

American Beauty

Forrest Gump

Papillon

Dirty Harry , The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven, Pale Rider, Magnum Force, Sudden Impact, The Dead Pool, The good the bad and the ugly ( hell- all Clint eastwood movies except the monkey ones..)

Field of Dreams

Pay it Forward

The Deer Hunter

Saving Private Ryan

Caddyshack

Man on Fire

Training Day

Scent of a Woman

Animal House

Blind Date

Uncle Buck

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Tommy Boy

The Indiana Jones trilogy

hell...........that's enough for now.........

DD

pumpi76

"I would love to agree with you, but then it would be tantamount to admitting that women aren't equal to men and do not have the same capacity for greatness or for failure."

Didn't know what you meant, but Will like to remind you that women are billionaires, that's more than any black man of any country could ever dream off...Maybe they lack in others but definately make up in others (i am talking of the female gender as a whole)...That's why they need BAD (PLEASE BELIEVE ME IS BAD) for them to create a "Trillion dollars" Global lottery that way we will see lots of women trillionaires...I just pray that women beging gambling just like men, that way we can see lots of women been trillionaires...And perhaps one of those women Trillionaires will have the sense to do great stuff for the female gender around the world, specially in East Asia and Africa...I honestly don't care much for women in countries like Canada, U.S, England & Spain....Where i do care is mostly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavian countries, Germany and the Caribbean...The middle east, I don't fool with those people...

People that should be protesting or requesting the Trillion dollar lottery more than anybody else SHOULD BE WOMEN...WOMEN GET MORE ADVANTAGE FROM THIS LOTTERY THAN MEN...ALL MEN WANT IS PASSION, SEX, MONEY & POLITICS...

 

  

"More important than winning the states' lotteries is the movie "Red Planet"......"

pumpi76

Quote: Originally posted by pumpi76 on May 16, 2007

"I would love to agree with you, but then it would be tantamount to admitting that women aren't equal to men and do not have the same capacity for greatness or for failure."

Didn't know what you meant, but Will like to remind you that women are billionaires, that's more than any black man of any country could ever dream off...Maybe they lack in others but definately make up in others (i am talking of the female gender as a whole)...That's why they need BAD (PLEASE BELIEVE ME IS BAD) for them to create a "Trillion dollars" Global lottery that way we will see lots of women trillionaires...I just pray that women beging gambling just like men, that way we can see lots of women been trillionaires...And perhaps one of those women Trillionaires will have the sense to do great stuff for the female gender around the world, specially in East Asia and Africa...I honestly don't care much for women in countries like Canada, U.S, England & Spain....Where i do care is mostly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavian countries, Germany and the Caribbean...The middle east, I don't fool with those people...

People that should be protesting or requesting the Trillion dollar lottery more than anybody else SHOULD BE WOMEN...WOMEN GET MORE ADVANTAGE FROM THIS LOTTERY THAN MEN...ALL MEN WANT IS PASSION, SEX, MONEY & POLITICS...

 

  

"More important than winning the states' lotteries is the movie "Red Planet"......"

I wish Oprah or one of those billionaires' women had their email on their website...Because i will then open a bogus email account & FLOOD their respective emails with the message above like 300 times...

 

 

"More important than winning the states' lotteries is the movie "Red Planet"....."

emilyg's avataremilyg

Quote: Originally posted by spy153 on May 16, 2007

good. I hate crooked clerks.Thumbs Up My husband asked what would prevent clerks from doing this very thing and I couldn't answer him, except to say "I'm sure they have their security measures." Now, I can add this. He was going on about how he didn't trust the kind of scratch offs that you buy from a clerk. He preferred the kind you got out of a vending maching.

On topic.  I do,too.

psykomo's avatarpsykomo

Quote: Originally posted by DoubleDown on May 16, 2007

What?  Pumpi , you always leave us guessing.....

@ least pumpi76

"know's a QUICK-TRICK"

When SHE SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee'ssssssssss...."IT"!!!!

This woman should GO FREEEEeeeeeeeeeeee.......thank's pumpi76!

White BounceWhite BounceBananaDanceCoffeeHurray!.................WIN if "U" CAN!!!!!!!!!

pumpi76

Quote: Originally posted by pumpi76 on May 16, 2007

i forgot to mention "Swordfish" which is my second most favorite movie...It comes on second place (or importance) below Gladiator....

thank you wiseguy...

I also forgot "Ghost in the shell" & "Final Fantasy" (all of them)...I have "Ghost in the Shell" but don't have "Final Fantasy" any of them...

Guru101's avatarGuru101

Geez I wish people would stop saying "Money is the root of all evil".

tnlotto1's avatartnlotto1

Quote: Originally posted by pumpi76 on May 16, 2007

"I would love to agree with you, but then it would be tantamount to admitting that women aren't equal to men and do not have the same capacity for greatness or for failure."

Didn't know what you meant, but Will like to remind you that women are billionaires, that's more than any black man of any country could ever dream off...Maybe they lack in others but definately make up in others (i am talking of the female gender as a whole)...That's why they need BAD (PLEASE BELIEVE ME IS BAD) for them to create a "Trillion dollars" Global lottery that way we will see lots of women trillionaires...I just pray that women beging gambling just like men, that way we can see lots of women been trillionaires...And perhaps one of those women Trillionaires will have the sense to do great stuff for the female gender around the world, specially in East Asia and Africa...I honestly don't care much for women in countries like Canada, U.S, England & Spain....Where i do care is mostly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavian countries, Germany and the Caribbean...The middle east, I don't fool with those people...

People that should be protesting or requesting the Trillion dollar lottery more than anybody else SHOULD BE WOMEN...WOMEN GET MORE ADVANTAGE FROM THIS LOTTERY THAN MEN...ALL MEN WANT IS PASSION, SEX, MONEY & POLITICS...

 

  

"More important than winning the states' lotteries is the movie "Red Planet"......"

"Didn't know what you meant, but Will like to remind you that women are billionaires, that's more than any black man of any country could ever dream off"

Maybe i miss understood what you were trying to say Pumpi76 but Robert Johnson is a black man and he is a billionaire. He sold BET to Viacom for 3 billion dollars so he is a billionaire and he is a black man...

tntea's avatartntea

Quote: Originally posted by DoubleDown on May 16, 2007

Someone please let us know if a scratch ticket can be scanned ( the bar code ) to determine if it is a winner without uncovering the 3 digit number code.

Inquiring minds want to know....

The bar code is on back of ticket.. We use it to activate the pack.. In order to see if it is a winner, one must scratch off the three digit code on front..

tntea's avatartntea

Needless to say..

NEVER buy a scratch when the three digit code is scratch off in the front..

justxploring's avatarjustxploring

Quote: Originally posted by tntea on May 16, 2007

Needless to say..

NEVER buy a scratch when the three digit code is scratch off in the front..

Thanks tntea.  I rarely purchase them, but I bet I'd never think about it until I got home.

puller23

Today is my birthday. 39. need help with some numbers please. Thanks.

LuckyLilly's avatarLuckyLilly

Quote: Originally posted by puller23 on May 17, 2007

Today is my birthday. 39. need help with some numbers please. Thanks.

Hey Puller, try posting a new thread in the Mystical forum.  I'm sure you'll get some suggestions there.

JackpotWanna's avatarJackpotWanna

30 days is too short.....  How did she know if they were winners? 

 

Party

pumpi76

Quote: Originally posted by pumpi76 on May 16, 2007

thank you wiseguy...

I also forgot "Ghost in the shell" & "Final Fantasy" (all of them)...I have "Ghost in the Shell" but don't have "Final Fantasy" any of them...

And finally i forgot the movie: Supernova & Chain Reaction...Evertime i see Chain reaction i think of the lotto...But i honestly will like to find the fountain of youth that will make us live to be 200 or 300 years...Not everyone could live a long time but there are Science geniuses like Albert Eistein who should live 200 years so they can propel science forward...

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