Two couples in court over ownership of $4 million scratch ticket

Comment #9

Lotteryfool — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:38:29 GMT

They don't have a leg to stand on and the court should not change the set rules because people were stupid enough to get rid of a winning ticket! Finders Keepers...losers weepers

Comment #8

ONEDAY — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:14:58 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by qutgnt on August 11, 2004How do these people win these big prizes twice when this post site cant hit it once? Id love to know the odds of winning two million dollar scratch offs in a lifetime, even playing a couple hundred a day. Unreal. Thats what I am sayin..I can't even win more then $5..after playing about 10 times so far...

Comment #7

CASH Only — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:06:26 GMT

It's not actually a $4 million ticket, since it's annuity-only.

Comment #6

Lurk More N00b — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:49:20 GMT

Tough luck, old man. You gave away the ticket and it now belongs to Mrs. Prive and her family. Now go cry in your Metamucil, you greedy old bastard.

Comment #5

qutgnt — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:03:08 GMT

How do these people win these big prizes twice when this post site cant hit it once? Id love to know the odds of winning two million dollar scratch offs in a lifetime, even playing a couple hundred a day. Unreal.

Comment #4

tg636 — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:39:05 GMT

It seems strange that the couple who allegedly bought the ticket had no idea they just scratched a $4 million winner, yet they know the book position numbers of all the tickets they bought? I really don't think they or whoever bought it can claim they had possession of it - would you go to the bathroom or buy a Coke with $4 million sitting in the pile of losers? I assume they had left the store when she gathered up the losing tickets.

Comment #3

CASH Only — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:33:26 GMT

It Hertz! Even if there was no dispute, the prize Hertz because it's annuity-only.

Comment #2

johnph77 — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:12:39 GMT

Probably here the legal question would be if either Mr. MacDonald and/or Ms. Hertz ever had actual possession of the ticket. If Mr. MacDonald had possession and threw it away then the ticket is Ms. Prive's - period. If Mr. MacDonald bought the ticket as part of a block (how does he know?) and never received it then he didn't count the tickets when he purchased them. And it would have been difficult for Ms. Prive to determine that that was the winning ticket on the spot.Every lottery in the count... [ More ]

Comment #1

tg636 — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:32:27 GMT

I scooped up hundreds of losing tickets from the trash for the same 2nd chance drawings and found several discarded winners myself in the $1 - 10 range and a few completely unscratched tickets, so I know it happens. In this case, I hope it's a case of finder's keepers. Once you toss a ticket in the trash, it's fair game for anyone to take out, look at and keep like anything else you toss in the trash. If you are scratching tickets so fast and furious that you can't be bothered to examine them to... [ More ]

Two couples in court over ownership of $4 million scratch ticket

Lottery Post — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:47:38 GMT

Two couples are fighting in court over ownership of a Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket worth $4 million.According to testimony in the civil jury trial in Barnstable Superior Court, which got under way Monday, Julie Prive was a clerk at a Tedeschi's market in Falmouth in 2002, and began regularly collecting discarded losing scratch tickets. She entered these tickets in the Clean Fun Sweepstakes, the lottery's second-chance game designed to keep used tickets from becoming litter.Prive said tha... [ More ]