Habib is in deep DoDo...

[Bob in Calif.]

About a month ago the Calif. lottery was up to $50,000,000 and there was one winning ticket. The winning ticket was sold at a mini-market about 20 miles south of me.<br /><br />For the prize went unclaimed for several days, untill the store owner claimed the prize, showing he had the winning ticket, which he said he bought himself. <br /><br />Guess what?....Five guys had actually gone together and bought a group of tickets, which included the winning one.<br /><br />One of the fellows took the winning ticket back to the same mini-market to have the ticket verified as the winner. Habib ran the ticket thru the lotto machine, threw it in to a waste basket behind the counter and told the fellow it was not a winner. The fellow then asked for the ticket back, where as Habib gave him a different ticket from the trash. The fellow said it was not the same ticket he gave Habib, but walked away.<br /><br />Now for the good part...The 5 guys who actually won the lottery hade mad 5 photo copies of the winning ticket, one copy each, prior to having the ticket vaidated. Smart<br /><br />When Habib and his wife Habiba came forward with the winning ticket, Habib was given some bad news....The 5 guys went to the police with their information and now Habib is looking forward to the next 10 YEARS, without a "Curry Slurpie."<br /><br />I would say this story had a happy ending. <br /><br /> ...Bob in Calif...

 

[ZmOz]

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I allways wondered what a store owner would do if they checked the winning ticket for you. A few months ago I bought a ticket at a little store in a town of about 1000. The next day a ticket sold at the store the day I was there won $20 million. Wasn't me...

 

[roscoe]

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LOL- "curry slurpie"<br /><br />Always sign the back of your ticket, before they scan it.

 

[Moose_Miller]

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Just check the thing yourself! Go online, get the winning numbers, and see if you've won. Go to a second website if you have conspiracy issues, to verify the numbers posted on the first site. Who buys so many lotto tickets that they don't have the time to check the numbers manually? I'm sure there are such people who exist... people who wouldn't NEED to win the lotto if they'd just invest what they're spending

 

[LadyFish]

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Moose, on that same site you can check to see if your numbers ever won. Of course it would mainly apply to those who play the same numbers every week.

 

[mattttt25]

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why is it acceptable to use the name habib in your story? if i told a story of a black guy and called him jerome or some other traditional black name, would it be acceptable here? yeah, i'm in one of those moods today.

 

[JB]

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A crook is a crook. They come in all shades and ethnicities.<br /><br />It does give me a warm feeling to see one busted.

 

[Ralph 123]

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I consulted to the CSL and a few others. Believe it or not that happens more than you would imagine. Lotteries know that and even plan for it. Big winners by agents are investigated. <br /><br />The gaming systems are very robust to maintain the integrity of the games. Every aspect of every transaction is logged by the central system. So, let's say those guys bought 5 tickets and the winner was the third one printed. The Lottery would know, even without the photocopy, that they were the winners becuase the real winners would know the time and place the ticket was purchased and would have the ticket before and after the winner. Plus, they would see the validation attempt (swipping the ticket) by the agent.<br /><br />The best thing you can do is SIGN your ticket as soon as you receive it or at least if you think you have a winner.<br /><br />And, if you ever decide to rob a C-store don't bother stealing the instant (scratch) tickets unless you want to be arrested when you try to cash in any winners I always got a big kick out of seeing the State police take away the morons trying to cash stolen tickets. "Oh, yes sir, that's a winner, have a seat while your claim is processed".... ha, ha, ha. I guess they think we would never plan for such a thing.<br /><br />If you sell tickets, don't try to scan unscratched tickets trying to find winners. Three bad scans and your terminal is shut off and the State Police come by to say hello.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Habib and Habiba.<br />Must have been a match made in, errrrrrrrr, somewhere.<br /><br />But anyway, it's good the bad guy got caught.

 

[oddjob]

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mattttt25,.......maybe cause ...habib is the freggin name in the report? just a thought...

 

[mattttt25]

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oddjod- doubt it. i think it's ignorant and derogatory. but oh well, just my opinion.

 

[jsfinn]

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It kind of pisses me off that the mods won't allow people to talk about stuff for sale but won't do anything about racial comments.<br /><br />There was a post deleted that was talking about underwear..why is this crap allowed? Americans are AMERICANS. The color of your skin doesn't make you less of an AMERICAN.

 

[jsfinn]

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Oh, and, I'm glad the theif got jail time.

 

[Pete30]

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Anybody see the show on the history channel about the history of lotteries in the US? It was about how it all started as illegal numbers games, and the government couldn't stop it, so they decided to legalize it and reap the profits. They had a ton of problems making it run as well as the illegals had for years. Interesting.

 

[mellowyellow]

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and the retailer that sells the tick gets a fat<br />check too don't he? greed is a scary thing 4 sure.

 

[Ralph 123]

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MY - yup he sure does. Depends on the jurisdiction as to how much. I forget the exact amounts but in MA the seller of a big jacpot winner get $50K I think - abything less and the get a %. They also get 5% for selling and 5% for cashing.<br /><br />Pete30 - In MA, when they decided to start a Lottery they went out and arrested the bookies and made them describe how it worked in return for dropping the charges and modeled the system after the way the illegal numbers racket worked <br /><br />Other useless Lottery facts:<br /><br />MA is the thirs largest in the world and first in per capita sales ($3B per year). <br /><br />MA sells more instant tickets than any other lottery in the world exept the nation of France<br /><br />DC has the largest daily numbers game in the country and has 2 drawings per day<br /><br />If, on a per capita basis, CA sold as much as MA, the CSL would a $15B lottery rather than the $2B it is today (how nice would that be you over taxed Californians!)<br /><br />The instant win ticket was invented by the MA lottery by a bunch of people who never personally made a dime off of it<br /><br />Something like 70% of the Worlds Lotteries run a gaming system developed anmd operated by a company called GTECH which is located in Rhode Island - MA is one of the few states that actually runs and maintains their own system. GTECH charges a % of revenue for operating and maintaining the system<br /><br />The vast majority of all instant tickets are produced by one company, Scientific Games located just outside of Atlanta<br /><br />Last I remember Pete30, you're one of the few lotteries that runs a system from a company called AWI (name changed a few years ago after the company blew up a conversion from a GTECH system in AZ and was thrown out after a month - they were purchased by the big slot maker who's name now escapes me)

 

[mellowyellow]

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he forgave say $25K to try to steal the whole prize???<br />he deserves any/all "names" posted here IMO.<br />I have no sympathy...

 

[Pete30]

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Ralph, <br /><br />I thought it was interesting to hear how the whole system could fall apart if someone's car broke down and they couldn't pick up all of the tickets. That was before all of the computers. Cool though, a lot of money in the lotteries. I'd love to see where all of the money really goes, I know it doesn't go to the schools like they say, hell I went to public school, I know!

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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My gosh man, did that really hurt you? This post is doomed because of , well they said no name calling, so I won't go there. Its been a while since I had a post locked out, or contributed to one being locked out so I might as well jump on the wagon. Everyone knows the following: <br /><br />Habib runs the mini-mart<br />Jerome runs the barbershop<br />Tony runs the high end restraunt<br />One Hung Lo runs the cleaners<br />Pepe runs the taco stand<br />Mr. O' Conner runs the bar<br />Bubba runs the hardware store<br /><br />Its not so much a racial comment. It is based off of actual events and people. These type of business's have traditionally been run by these type of people. Its a fact of life. Some folks just have got to loosen up.

 

[KeltonKrew]

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You forgot about:<br /><br />Jethro.....He runs the Feed Store (real close kin to Bubba...acutally, the feed store is through the open doors at the hardware store<br />Pork Chop.....runs the Bar-B-Que store<br /><br />no ill intentions....just some redneck humor!