I need Keystone! lol! Since when does a book of Treasure Hunt end with 056 I did the quick shot on the vending machine and it beeped
after 4 tickets shot out...I thought okay, that roll is done I'll just select another ticket...picked a Jingle thing and reached down, picked up
my tickets took note of the numbers and said: huh? Tickets 053, 054, 055, 056 were there and the light on the machine for that ticket stated:
OUT
If it was a malfunction, there would have been a red line through the window where the price normally is...but no, it just said OUT.
A little background on this particular store....it's a gas station/mini-mart...employees come and go there - there's always new faces. Now, here
goes the investigative mind of dr...What if someone took 2/3's of the tickets before putting them in the machine? At the time of night I was
there and on a few other nights of the week at that time, I notice the same 2 people working - boyfriend/girlfriend I'm assuming, they seem
rather chummy...anyway that's neither here nor there UNLESS they are in cahoots in what I'm getting at here. I've seen them on shift, playing
the tickets...and heard them tell stories of hitting $2 here, $10 there...I've seen them at the machine - buying and tinkering with it. Only time will
tell (ie: they're not there anymore...they got fired) This brings me to my important question: Can a bin be filled only half or a third of the way?
I have seen machines open and know there are buttons inside. I wonder if there is a report recorded for what is sold from the machine. If
149 tickets in a pack are supposed to be put in, who knows if 1/2 are put in. There must be a record kept...otherwise, people who think they're
smart can just stock 1/2 packs.
Oh well, just thought I'd bring that little oddity up, just something to think about. I guess I would be alittle ticked if I was buying $20 tickets
and found out the last loser I got at number 015 was the last one in the bin...and I wanted the next one. See what I mean? Thieves could
ruin a chance at that million....could have been the next one out!