Posted on 05/31/2015 3:36:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal Wednesday ruled that a woman is not entitled to collect a $500,000 prize because the scratch-off lottery ticket purchased by her husband included a misprint.
A three-judge panel upheld a ruling by Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis against Anna Maria Curcio, whose late husband in 2007 purchased a $20 “Gold Rush” lottery ticket that the couple thought was a winner. A number on the ticket appeared to be the number one, which would have been a winning match. But Wednesday’s ruling said a caption under that number included the letters “TH” and a partial “N,” indicating that the number was 13 — and not a winning match.
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The ruling said evidence showed that the confusion stemmed from a misprint “caused by an ink jet malfunction in the machine that printed the ticket.”
It’s always the easy way out - “Oh, you’ve won? Oops, misprint on our part. Sorry”
Tough break but makes sense. The three was clearly meant to be there but the printer dropped it off.
Why anyone plays these stupid games is beyond me.
“Tax on stupid people” is right.
The house always wins. Who can’t understand that?
“The house always wins. Who can’t understand that?”
The few lucky ones who won. :-)
Blatant homophobia: every homosexual I know refers to a singular occurrence as oneth.
Emphasis on FEW.
I guess it already happened. I was watching The Homesman and one of the character’s money was not acceptable in another state because it came from a bank in a territory that printed its own money.
The more taxes that are paid in that manner means that there can be fewer of the odious ones which are imposed on everybody.
Heck, they should create more lotteries and use them to raise all tax revenue, as far as I'm concerned.
Why not a Federal lottery? Seems like a creative way to raise revenue in a voluntary manner.
It is the same in Washington State. In inflation adjusted dollars it now costs taxpayers 3 times what it did in 1970 for a K through 12th grade education. Standardized achievement tests show that the average student performs exactly 0% better than they did in 1970. That however is because standardized achievement tests have been dumbed down.
Casino guy walked over and said, "Looks like that machine is busted. Sorry. You didn't win nuthin'.
The House doesn't like to lose. And Sometimes "the house" is the government.
I never mentioned the word “tax.”
1NTH is 13?
Do they ever examine losing tickets to see if by misprint someone actually was supposed to win?
The Founding Fathers played a lottery to raise funds for the Continental Army.
Were they stupid?
The lottery has even worse odd that it appears, once you recognize that the few who do get lucky may be splitting the win with someone who is gaming the system.
“First, she won $5.4 million, then a decade later, she won $2million, then two years later $3million and in the summer of 2010, she hit a $10million jackpot.
“The odds of this has been calculated at one in eighteen septillion and luck like this could only come once every quadrillion years.
“Harper’s reporter Nathanial Rich recently wrote an article about Ms Ginther, which calls the the validity of her ‘luck’ into question.
“First, he points out, Ms Ginther is a former math professor with a PhD from Stanford University specialising in statistics.
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