Lottery Ticket Loser Says He Won't Give Up

Comment #14

tg636 — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:45:05 GMT

I think Prive knows the winning ticket came from McDonald. But it is also the one and only chance she will ever have to hit it rich, and she wants the money and will stick to the finder's keepers, whoever signs and possesses the ticket is the winner, a letter-of-the-law legal strategy that has so far been successful. So she makes a couple of enemies, and it's not like McDonald is poor, he hit for $2 million in 1997 so how bad can you feel for him?But if you are going to cash in a million dollar... [ More ]

Comment #13

sergiou2 — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:24:21 GMT

Any jury that awards this guy any money is as stupid as MacDonald. He gave the ticket away. I agree with hypersoniq...if you don't know how to cash your own ticket, stop playing. There are so many other people who play all the time but if they don't win the jackpot, they wind up throwing their tickets away, never bothering to check if they won any of the other prizes. There was a $100,000 Powerball ticket that expired in Missouri because some fool never bothered to check that ticket.You might... [ More ]

Comment #12

BabyJC — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:15:54 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by hypersoniq on August 21, 2004is it really rocket science to check a ticket?On the $10.00 scratch tickets, the Mass. State Lottery puts 6 numbers that you have to match out-of-order! That is the #1 problem why people do not see that they have a match when they have a winning ticket. It's too many numbers (6 instead of the usual 4) and they are all out of order! If the winning numbers that you have to match were in proper, numerical order, you would see far less peo... [ More ]

Comment #11

RJOh — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:33:12 GMT

A similar case happened in Alabama a few years back and was reported on 60 minutes, the TV news show. There was a guy who droved to Florida every week to buy BigGame lottery tickets and since he seldom won much on them he gave them aways as tips to the waitresses at the local Waffle House where he ate breakfast every morning. He never thought that any of the tickets would actually be a big winner but dventually one of the tickets was a $12M winner and the lucky waitress had her husband sign an... [ More ]

Comment #10

Lotteryfool — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:23:30 GMT

He was dumb enough to get rid of the ticket, then he gets 0 dollars.... the ticket is the legal document...it's hers whether she knew it was a winner or not!!!!I'd say she did better than entering that second chance contest!Stupidity isn't an excuse

Comment #9

hypersoniq — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:24:40 GMT

is it really rocket science to check a ticket?wouldn't his signature have been on the back for the second chance drawing? Our retailers sometimes do that in PA, it involves signing your losing ticket and putting it in for the drawing... it is not a PA lottery official game, but rather a retailer-only operation. If he didn't put his name on the ticket, how exactly did he think he would have been notified if he won the second-chance drawing?If the clerk ripped him off, then he should get his winni... [ More ]

Comment #8

RJOh — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:08:55 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by CASH Only on August 21, 2004Any story that has to do with someone winning an annuity bothers me.Any story about other people winning some money bothers a lot of people, not just you. Get use to it, it happens. Raymond MacDonald was bother about the Prives winning some money that he threw away a chance to win, that was the reason for the trial. If the ticket had remained in the trash and nobody won, he probably would be happier.RJOh

Comment #7

CASH Only — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:31:31 GMT

Any story that has to do with someone winning an annuity bothers me.

Comment #6

four4me — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:29:08 GMT

Yea the more I think about this story the more it bothers me. It says he gave the tickets to the girl so she could enter them in a second chance drawing. Now did she accept tickets all day long then find out later after checking tickets that she had a discarded winner. Who knows. Anyway if you give something away it doesn't belong to you any more, or at least that was what I was taught. Case closed it belongs to the girl.On the other hand if she checked the tickets as soon as he handed them to h... [ More ]

Comment #5

JAP69 — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:42:05 GMT

The point here is that he discarded the ticket one way or the other.He could have thrown it in the trash somewhere and it would have gone unclaimed. How about if the guy at the dump picked it up. Would he still want his money.

Comment #4

BabyJC — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:20:13 GMT

Thanks RJ! If a photocopy of the ticket was hanging in the store, then Prive must have blabbed about her win. That was stupid on her part. If she never said anything and kept it between her and her husband, there likely wouldn't be a big court case now. Just the fact that she had her husband cash it instead of herself (if she really was the winner), shows deception.Did Ray MacDonald's lawyer have the scratch ticket tested for his fingerprints? This is a terrific idea! If I was on the jur... [ More ]

Comment #3

RJOh — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:25:27 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by BabyJC on August 20, 2004There have been so many news reports on this story, however, no one has ever said how Ray MacDonald ever found out what happened (that he gave a $4 million winner to the clerk by mistake)? According to one story I read:http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/plaintiffsays11.htmRaymond MacDonald testified that a photo copy of the winning ticket that was posted in the store after the Prives won, appeared to have his scratch signature. RJOhnote: th... [ More ]

Comment #2

bobo7703 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:12:06 GMT

give the man his money

Comment #1

BabyJC — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:06:09 GMT

There have been so many news reports on this story, however, no one has ever said how Ray MacDonald ever found out what happened (that he gave a $4 million winner to the clerk by mistake)? Did Prive go around blabbing to everyone what happened? I heard that she had her husband go to the lottery and cash it under his name (no surprise there). How was Prive and her husband found out? Thanks

Lottery Ticket Loser Says He Won't Give Up

Lottery Post — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:54:00 GMT

A Cape Cod man who bought a winning $4 million scratch lottery ticket but discarded it, said he will go back to court to try reclaim the prize.

A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors couldn't reach a decision.

Julie Prive, the convenience store clerk who turned a discarded ticket into a fortune, walked out of court Wednesday a winner, but she may not have much time to enjoy it.

Raymond MacDonald said he bought the ticket and gave it back thinking it was a loser.

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