Massachusetts store owner wins $1 million

Comment #11

LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:40:06 GMT

congrats on the win

Comment #10

free ticket — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:43:37 GMT

I work at a store that sells tickets and do play there believe me theres are no real advantages of playing at a store that sells lottery one time some1 bought 5 10$ tickets and lost on all 5 I played aftre him and lost on the next4 before winning 10$ bought the next 1 with taht 10 $ and lost out of money 2 tickets later I sold the 500$ winner to a customer so its all just righht place right time

Comment #9

Chewie — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:52:10 GMT

Would never accuse you of stealing. I was speaking in generalities. However, in your example, she stole the tickets. That was the intent. Theft is theft. If you speed and do not get caught, are you breaking the law? YES! If she had not hit a winner, would she still have went back and paid for them? It goes back to that other thread of the woman using a stolen credit card, then using it to buy a ticket, then winning. If you rob a bank, use the money for MM tickets and hit the jackpot. The... [ More ]

Comment #8

justxploring — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:46:17 GMT

I don't steal, but everyone has a different level of honesty. Now let's say the above woman took all those tickets, went home and scratched them and won a million dollars. She then goes back to the store and pays for the tickets she took.....could she be prosecuted for stealing? Hmm. Maybe that's what was on her mind but she got caught before she could hit a big winner. There aren't that many big winners anyway, so she could have scratched every ticket in the store and come up short.... [ More ]

Comment #7

masslottery — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:03:00 GMT

I wish it was me the store were they hit it is around the corner from my house

Comment #6

Chewie — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:44:34 GMT

There are thiefs everywhere, and lottery scractch-offs are too easy to get it at. They are just laying there. There was a woman in the paper two months ago who stole $5,000 worth of scratch off over six-months time frame. She was a 25-year employee. Throwing away 25-years for a scratch-off. Go figure! Don't people ever weigh the pros and cons of piddly amounts

Comment #5

justxploring — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:11:15 GMT

I wonder if 7-11 has a rule against employees buying tickets at the store. A neighbor of mine was fired from 7-11 last year for stealing lottery tickets which she denies. I can't believe she even admitted that to me. Hmm..could the fact that she's always drunk had anything to do with her termination? :-)

I agree with everyone here. Being a store owner or working at a store definitely gives a person an advantage. Once I sat at a roulette wheel in Vegas and bet on 22 over and over again. As... [ More ]

Comment #4

Uncle Jim — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:58:13 GMT

We are not allowed to purchase Scratch Off's or any lottery game (daily, jackpot or otherwise) where I work. On duty...off duty...no purchases. PERIOD NO EXCEPTIONS!

In fact if we purchase a winner somewhere else we cannot even redeem our tickets at work.

Paraphrased our company policy is:

It is not enough for Caesar's wife to be pure...she must appear to be pure and therefore above suspicion and beyond reproach.

Jim

Comment #3

BabyJC — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:42:56 GMT

When I once worked at a convenience store, we were allowed to buy tickets either before or after our shift, but not during our shift.

Comment #2

tg636 — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:16:39 GMT

It is hard to trust that a store owner who wins at scratch tickets at his own store is entirely due to luck. In most sweepstakes and contests they have rules against employees entering or winning their own sweepstakes, because if someone from the same company wins it gives the appearance of collusion, fraud and an inside job and undermines trust in the contest.

Comment #1

Chewie — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:41:19 GMT

Sure have been a lot of store owners winning scratch off lately! Don't suppose it has anything with them watching ticket after ticket being a loser, or tickets after ticket being a winner. Some rolls are magic rolls, and who whould know better about the rool to choose then the owner.

I don';t think store owners/clerks should be allowed to puchase in their store.

Massachusetts store owner wins $1 million

Lottery Post — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:21:00 GMT

Sometimes it pays to break a New Year's resolution.

After years of buying lottery tickets in the store he managed, Greg Lambert resolved this year it just wasn't worth it anymore. Last week, though, he caved and bought a $10 million Texas Hold 'Em ticket.

Something just told me to buy a ticket, so I did, he said.

The $10 ticket was a $1 million winner.

I bought it, scratched it, looked again, and looked again, and looked again ... said the 38-year-old Wayland resident.

Th... [ More ]