Lottery ticket number crucial to trial

Comment #15

ONEDAY — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:28:14 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by Littleoldlady on August 13, 2004I feel she is right to keep the money. If they threw the tickets away..oh well, that is like taking your pay check, cashing it and just throwing it in the street. A ticket is a bearer instrument. I have found lots of scrachers in the trash worth from $40.00 on down so I feel as if she doesn't owe them a thing. Other people's trash is other people's treasure.I am going to swallow some pride and start looking at the ones in the garbage... [ More ]

Comment #14

CASH Only — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:44:05 GMT

Mass asks for trouble every time it comes out with an annuity-only scratch game.

Comment #13

phantomelm — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 06:18:31 GMT

from what i have read,it sounds like they cheated the couple. i would agree with you all about them giving it to her,but she has been caught in alot of lies.reread the story again,and look at it unbiased,it seems like fraud to me. they are an older couple,maybe they cant read or see as good as they used too,and asked her to check it and she told them it was a looser,of course they would believe her.and they turned it in 4 days later and cashed it,seems very fishy to me,anyone else agree with me... [ More ]

Comment #12

Littleoldlady — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:03:05 GMT

I feel she is right to keep the money. If they threw the tickets away..oh well, that is like taking your pay check, cashing it and just throwing it in the street. A ticket is a bearer instrument. I have found lots of scrachers in the trash worth from $40.00 on down so I feel as if she doesn't owe them a thing. Other people's trash is other people's treasure.

Comment #11

mo money — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:20:30 GMT

the moral and ethical thing for the store clerk to do is split the money equally. Personally i feel she is a crook.

Comment #10

avore — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:25:24 GMT

as the sole bearer of a lottery instant scratch ticket.It is my responsibly to check the ticket thourghly.If Idiscard or give so said ticket away,all I can say is farewell.It's called choice!,And you must live with your choices.Good or bad.If these people can spend 100 DOLLARS a day on lottery tickets(36,500 dollars a year.more than alot of people I know make!) alongside wanting to sue everybody.I SAY SCREW EM

Comment #9

tg636 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:38:24 GMT

The mystery here is how two seasoned experienced scratch ticket buyers thought the ticket was a loser. I'm sure it had some matching number(s) and different words under the matching number(s) to indicate jackpot . Such different words might have caused the average person to look at it even longer than the average ticket, puzzling over what it all meant. Why, they had previously won a jackpot from another scratch ticket in 1997, so they can't even claim they had never seen a jackpot winning t... [ More ]

Comment #8

RJOh — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:37:54 GMT

I seen people in Ohio also buy scratch off tickets and have the friendly clerk scan them for winners rather than taking the time to check them themselves. It part of a clerk's job to be friendly, but not a friend who can be trusted to check your tickets. Clerks are making $5-$10 per hour and they are not going to care if someone who drops $20 in 10 seconds for some lottery tickets lose some money.RJOh

Comment #7

BobP — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:02:52 GMT

In Florida people buy scratch off tickets and have the clerk scan them for winners without scratching any boxes. It's not like a bell rings if you have a winner, the clerk can easily say a winner was a loser. I think the case hinges on whether Julie Prive told them it was a loser, if she did it was fraud as seller/checker she had responsibility to verify the ticket, if she didn't and just asked for losers it became hers when they handed it over. BobP

Comment #6

Flame — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:23:07 GMT

Yup, there's a big difference between being 'morally correct' and 'legally correct'.They gave her the tickets, and she recieved them..... which means that she now has ownership of them. The 'moral' thing to do would be to either offer to split it with them, or to give it back, but legally Prive has ownership of the tickets and can do what she wants with it.Things like this should be a nice reminder for people to check their tickets, and sign them.

Comment #5

DoctorEw220 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:56:26 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by four4me on August 13, 2004Yep I agree if they bought scratch off tickets and gave them away then by all rights they belong to the person who received them. If they hadn't of gave them to her they might have been tossed in the trash never to be claimed. many winning scratch off tickets end up in the trash because people don't know they have a winning ticket or neglected to check it completely. If Raymond MacDonald, and Monica Hertz, gave the ticket away that's their fa... [ More ]

Comment #4

four4me — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:31:44 GMT

Yep I agree if they bought scratch off tickets and gave them away then by all rights they belong to the person who received them. If they hadn't of gave them to her they might have been tossed in the trash never to be claimed. many winning scratch off tickets end up in the trash because people don't know they have a winning ticket or neglected to check it completely. If Raymond MacDonald, and Monica Hertz, gave the ticket away that's their fault and they should be angry at themselves not the wom... [ More ]

Comment #3

qutgnt — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:07:21 GMT

Seriously they threw it out they lose, she signed it , bottom line. I agree though with his fact that you should buy high numbered tickets in the stack because the lottery doesn want all the big prizes claimed right away as then they would not be able to dump the rest of the tickets since most people wouldnt buy them once they realized the big winners were gone.

Comment #2

tg636 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:56:14 GMT

One of them gave it to Prive so she could enter it herself in a secondary lottery drawing. Well, that's a little different from picking up a ticket from a pile of losers abandoned in the trash or lottery table. She knew who her winning ticket came from. That doesn't mean she shouldn't take advantage of a fortune that was mistakenly dropped on her lap, which doesn't happen very often and is after all the American way, but were she a more ethical person she could have offered to split the money... [ More ]

Comment #1

CASH Only — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:45:22 GMT

MacDonald and Hertz are both in their 60s. This is an annuity-only prize.

Lottery ticket number crucial to trial

Lottery Post — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:56:13 GMT

When did Julie Prive learn the number of a lottery ticket worth $4 million?The outcome of a civil case pitting Prive, 27, who worked at the Tedeschi's in East Falmouth when the $10 scratch ticket was sold, against two other Falmouth residents could hinge on the answer to that question.Prive is being sued by Raymond MacDonald, 65, and Monica Hertz, 62, who both claim ownership of the $600 Million Spectacular ticket.MacDonald and Hertz both say they bought the ticket May 17, 2002, but did not real... [ More ]