Thieving customers steal thousand of Texas Lottery lottery tickets

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LuckyLilly — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:14:26 GMT

They'll only be caught if they're the stupid breed of thieves. If they're the smart breed, they scam some old person into buying the ticket for half the value with some excuse why they can't cash it in themselves. Didn't I'm an illegal so I can't cash this ticket work on one old fella in southern New Mexico just recently

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lottoqueen29 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:47:42 GMT

I guess it is too hard to get a job and buy lottery tickets like a normal person. I guess they did not realize that they would probably get caught when they went to cash the tickets in.

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Litebets27 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:50:57 GMT

????????

What's going on in Texas? Sounds like alot of Desperate people running around down there.

Thieving customers steal thousand of Texas Lottery lottery tickets

Lottery Post — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:35:16 GMT

Police say thieves have stolen Texas lottery tickets at seven different Bedford convenience stores in recent days. A store in Grapevine was also hit.

The thefts started on July 3 followed by two on July 4, one last Friday,and three over the weekend.

Investigators said they are looking for several suspects.

In all the cases, one of the thieves distracted the cashier while another grabbed the tickets.

Police were viewing store surveillance videos from the stores on Tuesday, trying to