Millionaire lottery ticket trash-diver keeps most of prize

Comment #8

savagegoose — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:38:21 GMT

yeah ive left tickets behind, like at a bar where ive been drinking. but here in aust. we get to play registered, where your details are registered to the winning ticket. so even lost or someone else claiming there is your name attached to winning ticket.

so its not as terrifying to lose a tcket out here.

Comment #7

justxploring — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:53:44 GMT

I actually agreed with your attitude 100%, but one day I did something really stupid. I bought my lottery tickets for FL Lotto. These were the same numbers I've played for a dozen years. I must have had a really bad day, no sleep and a terrible headache, because I'm usually very responsible, but I left my plastic lottery sleeve on the counter. The cashier ran after me and I was already in my car driving away. Of course I would have rewarded her, but it really puts a different light on a situati... [ More ]

Comment #6

savagegoose — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:53:13 GMT

im sorry, but i feel if you are too stupid to read a ticket that says u win $ 1 mill and throw it away, then well... ermmm you dont deserve squat.

im happy to hear donovan gets $7k a year for 20 years, thats almost worth nothing after lawyer fees, taxes etc hell be lucky to get $3.5k.

i hope he blows it all on scratchies , and throws it away too! just like his paaw

Comment #5

justxploring — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:31:27 GMT

I guess my opinion might be unpopular. I'm not sure the Donovan's were being greedy or felt that they had a right to the money. I agree that the ticket is a bearer instrument, but this man spent hundreds on piles of scratch tickets, and they are coded to track where and when they were sold. So the Donovans obviously had enough evidence to prove the winning ticket was part of the group he purchased on that day. What I mean is, it would be very rare for someone to buy 50 tickets, someone else to b... [ More ]

Comment #4

DetroitJazzMan — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:39:56 GMT

If memory serves me correctly, I do believe that he offered Mr. Donovan more than the settlement prior to his death. Just goes to show, it dosen't pay to be greedy

Comment #3

TheGameGrl — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:51:52 GMT

If it wasnt for that cute little regulation of Bearers Instrument most folks *WOULD* hussle others more outside garbage cans. Glad the case has been settled but dern well know that the lawyers are the ones that reaped the grandest amount. I have little regard for the Donovans but most of their so called cut ended up as mortgage payments for the summer houses of the lawyers. If ya wanna stand for something stand on your two legs and stop riding the tail of another. THanks for posting the resu... [ More ]

Comment #2

RJOh — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:51:49 GMT

This just proves a person who's lucky enough to find a winning lottery ticket shouldn't brag about it to the public, in fact a person who's lucky enough to buy a winning lottery ticket shouldn't brag about it to the public either. There's alway someone out there who think they deserve what others have more than they do.

Comment #1

sergiou2 — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:30:52 GMT

It just goes to prove that Money Changes Everything. Those Donovans are greedy. They stole $140 grand from that old man. Shame on them. This opens the door for anyone to claim they lost a winning ticket.

If it were any other prize amount, they probably wouldn't have even bothered.

Dono-Thieves...that's what they should change their name, too.

In the end, though, St. John probably did the right thing.

Millionaire lottery ticket trash-diver keeps most of prize

Lottery Post — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:20:30 GMT

The million-dollar question has been the talk of the town for months: Should an 83-year-old Blackstone man share winnings from a discarded Massachusetts Lottery jackpot-winning ticket with the man who said he accidentally threw it away?

When Edward St. John found the $1 million ticket last October after sifting through a trash can at local convenience store, his answer was a resounding no. But the family of Kevin Donovan , who said he tossed the Hold 'em Poker scratch ticket, took matters t... [ More ]