[MissouriConservative]

I smell a lawsuit coming.

[Prime Choice]

In other news, Florida has reported a sharp decline in lottery ticket purchases. Women and minorities hardest hit.

[SoDak]

I pick up a lottery ticket once in a great while. This would really suck.

[Smokin' Joe]

Yep. If it is really a misprint, then why keep the ticket?

[Thinkin' Gal]

The lottery said what appeared to be a winning ticket was a misprint.

How Conveeenient.

[dandelion]

This sounds completely corrupt. Was the ticket issued by Florida? Is it official? If so, then it is the winning ticket, case closed...

Misprint, my rump.

[A CA Guy]

The lottery has to pay the 250K.

[taxesareforever]

Was this in Broward County?:)

[TexasTransplant]

Misprinted Money spends even better than correctly printed Money.
Printed by the Government, and they Print LOTS of it as well.

Sounds like Payday to me, I'd pursue it

[MarkL]

"I think God has a really strange sense of humor, to give you $250,000 and take it away in the next breath," Coley said.

I would have to comment that The Lord really had nothing to do with this one...

Mark

[RandallFlagg]

Who's printing them things? BILL BURKETT?!

[LibWhacker]

Friday, the Lottery issued a statement saying they print 500-million tickets a year and that "the very nature of any mechanical printing process can never guarantee 100% accuracy."

Hmmm... Sounds like a good argument to me. What if they had printed one million bad tickets? Should Florida taxpayers be liable for a $250 billion payout? No.

But I'm torn -- is this really a mistake or is the Florida lottery corrupt, like a whole lot of other things in that state?

[AntiGuv]

If it's a legitimate misprint then I'm sure the fine print covers it well enough. The lawsuit won't fly unless the lottery people are lying, which is most improbable.

[AntiGuv]

"I think God has a really strange sense of humor, to give you $250,000 and take it away in the next breath," Coley said.

Maybe God just doesn't like her?

[BigCinBigD]

They can pay her now. Or pay her more later. No jury in the state will side with the lotto on this.

[SkyPilot]

[Tax Government]

Lawsuit time, big time. Fraud. Treble damages.

[thefactor]

i'm sure Bush is somehow involved. he probably set up the machines or something. it's his fault.

[gridlock]

I smell a lawsuit coming.

The coming lawsuit over scratchers should be over the deceptive way they are marketed. They all have pretty simple games that look like they have a fairly good chance of winning. Match this roll of the die and win big bucks, or some such. Now a person could get the impression from that that he has a one-in-36 chance of winning the big bucks. Of course, only a certain number of winners are printed, and the different rolls of the dice are not random, so the odds of winning are much, much lower.

Which is where the lawsuit comes in. The purpose of the deceptive game is, obviously, to encourage people to play. But they are being encouraged to play a game that is rigged against them. It would be very easy for the state to print not deceptive tickets, such as "scratch off and reveal a 10-digit code number. If it matches the number printed above, you win! Then the astronomical odds are obvious to anyone who plays the game.

Now, since every individual player is out only a buck or two, it will be necessary to file the lawsuit as a class action. But the class of people is ripped off to the tune of Billions of Dollars. That's a lot of zeros, buddy. A lawyer could live very well on a third of that pile...

[Lazamataz]

Give her the freakin' cash, you deadbeats.

[dinasour]

Lotteries are a tax on stupid people.