maqroll Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 In Massachusetts, if you have a winning ticket of an amount that requires you to go to the lottery headquarters, you need to sign the back of the ticket. So whenever I buy a lottery ticket, I sign it, so if I lose it, it can't be cashed in buy someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Hand it in, you can`t get away with it anyway!Depends really. How many people saying hand it in would actually hand in the ticket if it was a lucky dip? A ticket that the person who dropped it has zero idea of the numbers, and will never know if it won or not, and so has no reason to ever report it as missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Well I'd cash in probably, I'm only 16 and if asked, I'd just say "I didn't know I had to hand it in, I thought I just got lucky" I'm sure i'd get away with a caution at worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Oh, if I actually knew the winner of the money, i'd give it them back, but if I just found it randomally, I'd take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalim_a Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I would hand it in. Would feel bad if I kept it... If nobody claimed it with proof after a while then yes I would claim for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 well, I left my ipod on a train on monday. I assumed the worst, but was persuaded to ring up the lost and found at the end station a few days later - and lo it had been handed in - so in that light yes I would hand the ticket in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingerlad Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 But just think of all the iPods you could have bought with £30k....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I'd hand an ipod in or a phone tbh. but not a lottery ticket for 30k. weird that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granville Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I'd hand an ipod in or a phone tbh. but not a lottery ticket for 30k. weird that. That's cause finding and keeping a phone means you have to sell it for a tenner in the pub and that makes you a spiv whereas cashing a £30k ticket makes you a winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I'd hand an ipod in or a phone tbh. but not a lottery ticket for 30k. weird that. That's cause finding and keeping a phone means you have to sell it for a tenner in the pub and that makes you a spiv whereas cashing a £30k ticket makes you a winner. I think it might be that I don't see the lottery ticket as a possesion, like money. If it was a phone, i'd simply return it, but if I found £10, 100, 1000 pound i'd keep it. like the lottery ticket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLN Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 To be fair, he came back and said thank you a day or 3 later. This is said tongue in cheek yes? Didn't throw you £100 no? I'd have been very pissed off. He's doing the Lotto so he is already being taxed for being an idiot. He should have to pay the higher rate of not even winning if he gets the right numbers, for not checking his ticket properly. There was a story in Ireland recently where a man bought a lotto ticket in a shop, but didn't pick it up when he was leaving. The gent behind the counter kept the ticket for him and it won €350,000. The next day he called the man and told him to come in to collect his ticket. How much of a cut would you give the gent? Would you have given it to him at all? It sounds like you would definitely get away with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsonp Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Play online, never can lose the ticket or have a thieving newsagent steel your ticket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Why did they get a suspended sentence yet get to keep half the money? Don't understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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