Store owner accused of stealing lottery ticket

Comment #11

CASH Only — Tue, 24 May 2005 20:52:41 GMT

The Mass Lottery is the most corrupt US lottery, in terms of annuity-only prizes.

Comment #10

tom.s — Sun, 22 May 2005 21:17:20 GMT

i live in Mass, and things like this where store owners or clerks doing bad things happens every year or so. jail time for these people, i have a guy in a store where i go tell me that he would play our mega million tickets and i can pick them up in the next morning. I don't think so, he has said this when the machine was down, and he said he would play them later. I mean a 100 dollars for my pool. again no way.

Comment #9

sergiou2 — Sat, 21 May 2005 05:25:06 GMT

Luckily our state has those machines to check tickets.

Comment #8

emilyg — Fri, 20 May 2005 23:12:20 GMT

it's not hard to check your own ticket. always know what you won.

Comment #7

BabyJC — Fri, 20 May 2005 22:25:27 GMT

He's facing 10 years in prison and I hope he gets it! What he did was steal $46,000 from that woman, just as if he stole it from a bank.I told my husband a few years ago not to trust the clerks to scan your tickets. When he heard this story, he said - Boy, you were right! I also think if you give them say 3 tickets to scan, and the first one is a loser, they could keep scanning the first losing ticket, pretending they did each one - Then scan the other two after you leave the store! If you... [ More ]

Comment #6

jeffrey — Fri, 20 May 2005 18:01:44 GMT

Hopefully, the courts will make an example of this man and charge him 10x the winnings and put him in jail for a few years of fun with the rest of the degenerates. I get so sick of this. Why don't they put in scanners that the customers can use

Comment #5

DoubleDown — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:15:09 GMT

Unbelieveable...... All the legal fees, court costs, etc......Just b/c you trust the clerk ? No way, Jose

Comment #4

Pick-4_Master — Fri, 20 May 2005 14:46:17 GMT

Some people are just too trusting when it comes too Lottery tickets they should treat them as if they were REAL money (the same way you treat your paycheck) until you know for sure whether it's a winner or not.

Comment #3

konane — Fri, 20 May 2005 13:49:23 GMT

I'm with you two ....... check your own ticket yourself. Ask the clerk for a printout of the winning numbers for that game if you don't have a computer to check it online. Most of the time they have them already printed out for customers to take.

Comment #2

Tnplayer805 — Fri, 20 May 2005 13:12:03 GMT

I'm with you lottomike. I check my own ticket. Whether it be scratch or numbers. I like to make sure what I win really goes to me and not the idiot behind the counter.

Comment #1

LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 20 May 2005 12:49:47 GMT

it amazes me that people trust these clerks,i always check for myself because you never know who you can trust.....

Store owner accused of stealing lottery ticket

Lottery Post — Fri, 20 May 2005 12:42:01 GMT

On Monday morning last week, Elizabeth Gelarderes did exactly what she always does, stop in at Richdale Food Store on her way to work for a regular coffee and a lottery ticket. The self-described ''lottery addict scrawled onto a ''Cash Winfall ticket the birth dates of her two children, something she's been doing for at least 10 years.The next day, she brought the ticket in to see if she'd won. The store's owner, Patrick Simboli, 45, allegedly took the ticket, checked it, and told her that she... [ More ]