Connecticut House votes to give jackpot to winner who missed deadline

Comment #11

tg636 — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:01:08 GMT

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I'm glad he beat the odds and got money that the state wasn't entitled to either, and I'm glad he had 8 years in the fire to think about what a lazy person he was for not checking the numbers in the first place. On the other hand, the deadline is well known and how hard is it to check your ticket? If there has ever been anyone else in the past or future of the CT lottery who has been denied a prize because of a missed deadline, I hope they saved the... [ More ]

Comment #10

hypersoniq — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:36:44 GMT

Quote: O

Comment #9

Thomas Covenant — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:18:33 GMT

You people are tough. What difference does it make if he gets his money? I'm glad things worked out for him. I'm glad he got his money.

Comment #8

weshar75 — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:01:11 GMT

If you can not claim the lottery prize in the alloted time frame you don't deserve the prize. Your obviously not responsible enough to read the rules of the game and understand them well enought to know when you should claim the prize. Reversing lottery payouts by the state legislature is wrong and should never happen in any case. That is why the lottery has rules for unclaimed prizes. Besides the fact that if he had a winning ticket he should have known that a validation at any ticket termi... [ More ]

Comment #7

CASH Only — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:40:50 GMT

The prize should go back to the jackpot fund (although IMO Connecticut should join Hot Lotto .) The man won when CT Lotto was annuity-only.

Comment #6

BabyJC — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 03:15:13 GMT

I also think that unclaimed jackpots should go back into that lottery game's current jackpot instead of to the state! You have to be good to the public sometimes.

Comment #5

NBey6 — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:50:26 GMT

I keep all of my tickets for 1 year and then I burn them.

Comment #4

whodeani — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:42:46 GMT

Ok, so let's say he didn't know he won. If he was able to scramble around in the last 15 minutes and look at the ticket, then he must have known where the ticket was all along. How many people here know where they put something a year ago? Heck, I don't remember where I put something ten minutes ago a good portion of the time. The only way he would know where he put that ticket (that was bought a year ago) is if he had seen it a number of times over the past year. It has been sitting there and s... [ More ]

Comment #3

NBey6 — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:32:55 GMT

Unbelievable

Comment #2

BabyJC — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:44:20 GMT

Whod - I think when it gets close to the deadline of a big unclaimed jackpot, many times articles will appear in the newspapers and it will be mentioned also on the local news stations. Perhaps he caught wind of it that way and scrambled around at the last (15) minutes and found out he was the winner!Anyhow, if they bend the rules for him, they are definitely opening up a big can of worms! Others in the same situation in the future will ask for the same special treatment. They have to realize... [ More ]

Comment #1

whodeani — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:42:02 GMT

I am a little fishy about this story. He just happens to discover 15 minutes before the deadline. What was he doing the other 525,585 minutes during the year? What made him just out of the blue look at the numbers 15 mintues before the deadline? I think he knew long before and for whatever reason decided not to claim the jackpot until he did and got the date wrong. He just went into the lottery office and came up with the story, well I only realized 15 minutes before the deadline that I was a w... [ More ]

Connecticut House votes to give jackpot to winner who missed deadline

Lottery Post — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:30:27 GMT

A Hamden, Connecticut man who missed a deadline to cash in his winning $5.8 million Connecticut Lotto ticket may get a second chance to hit the jackpot.The state House of Representatives voted 81-64 Thursday to give the money to Clarence Jackson, 31, who bought the winning ticket for the Oct. 13, 1995, drawing and missed the one-year deadline to redeem it by three days.But there's a catch.The issue was referred back to the legislature's Appropriations Committee, because there was no money set as... [ More ]