Mega Millions winner must share with co-workers
That's right. A jury says pay up. Seems that this guy would buy lottery tickets for a group at work. Then he would buy his own tickets. "He says" that it was one of his own tickets that won the lottery. His coworkers were sceptical. So they did what any group of red blooded Americans would do, they sued.
Now here's the problem with me telling everyone this. There was not much information in the news story. And it's not worth researching much more because the lesson has been learned, for both sides - Make copies of the group tickets and hand them out to the group.
I did this at work. A long time ago. I would buy group tickets. But I would always head straight to the copy machine and zip out a copy for everyone. I would also write all the names in that particular group on the copy because the group makeup would change from week to week.
By doing it that way all the tickets got checked 10 times over and all the people in the group got the fun of checking a whole bunch of tickets. (Mainly because that's ALL the fun you're going to have buying lottery tickets.)
Buy lottery tickets for fun. You know, so you can tell your friends that you'll never see them again if you win.
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We buy family lottery tickets whenever there is a BIG jackpot. It takes a loooong time to decide what numbers we'll pick.
A - That's why I always let the computer pick the numbers. There have been stories of people picking the same numbers every week and then missing the week when 'their' numbers came up.
I'm pretty skeptical of that guy claiming the winning ticket was one he just bought for himself too.
I worked at a place where everyone in my dept pitched in $2 for lottery tickets once. They never asked if I wanted to though. Seriously, it was so rude of them.
Jay
J - They didn't trust you. As a participant. Think about that for awhile. When you figure it out, explain it to me.
I used to be the one who got the group tickets, orgainized sports pools and so on
then it became so annoying because most people suck so I stopped
I would have played with Jay though
Photocopying the tickets is a great idea. A few times I bought Powerball tickets for a group. Nothing happened except to give money to Tenn.
D - I don't know if I would go as far as playing with Jay. He was probably being excluded for some unknown strange reason and that's good enough for me.
BSH - That's all I ever did too, give money to Missouri. You have to be in it for the pure entertainment value. Like picking on Jay.
From the Illinois Lottery website:
Illinois students and schoolrooms receive nearly $623 million per year in Lottery revenue - about 9.6% of the state's annual contribution to K-12 education.
The Illinois Lottery is additionally mandated to conduct lottery games to benefit specific causes. Through June 30, 2006, the Lottery has transferred $2.6 million to the Ticket for the Cure Fund to support breast cancer awareness programs and $1.6 million to the Veterans Assistance Fund to support programs for the benefit of Illinois military veterans.
D - But is the education fund shorted that amount from the general fund?
We always photocopied the tickets, gave everyone a copy, and put the originals on the office bulletin board. Never had a problem. Of course, we never won squat, either, but that's just how it goes.
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