Would you (moral question)

Whatever happend to...

"Finders keepers, losers weepers"?

AcidHell2 said:
debit you can, credit you can't.
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Odd, everywhere round here has "National Lottery, CASH ONLY" signs by the ticket machine.

I'm not saying your wrong, just round here I've never been able to use a card at a shop to buy tickets.
 
anticonscience said:
Whatever happend to...

"Finders keepers, losers weepers"?



Odd, everywhere round here has "National Lottery, CASH ONLY" signs by the ticket machine.

I'm not saying your wrong, just round here I've never been able to use a card at a shop to buy tickets.
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You must live in an untrustworthy area,. Done it many times on card.
 
anticonscience said:
I didn't know you could pay on card in the shops. Everywhere I have ever bought a ticket is cash only.
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Yeah that's right, it has the same cash only policy as paypoints. The only real way I could think of to prove or disprove it is if the ticket 'booth' (or whatever it's called) is filmed on a security camera or if the person who served it remembered who they served it to, and remembered the numbers the original ticket owner chose.

This really isn't something that can pan out in the original owners favour imo and I can't understand how the finders got a court sentence lol.

[edit - bah a few posts after the one I was replying to but I'm still pretty sure it's cash only, here in Brighton at least]
 
Both parties were stupid, she shouldn't have dropped it and it's questionable whether they should have claimed it. The money should default to charity :P

Can't honestly say if I'd keep it or not, maybe, maybe not, would depend on the amount I suppose.
 
apparently they proved to the police that they owned the ticket, so fair enough that it's returned to them, but don't see how it's theft, and nothing should have been done to the finders
 
Simi said:
What I don't understand is how they knew who found it, and how they knew it was the lost ticket... did the people cash it in and then say they found it?
This story doesn't quite add up as I don't see how a lottery ticket can be traced and proven to be the lost ticket? The odds of someone else picking the same numbers are pretty damn good, right?
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If they play the same numbers every week and use the same outlet to buy the ticket like lots of people do then it is easy to trace and or prove the ticket purchase. I'm sue I heard that one thing Camelot ask when you claim is where did you buy the ticket and at what time, and it you bought any other tickets there as well.
I'm not sure how it came to light that the ticket was found unless they told everyone about their good ''luck''
 
If I had found it I wouldn't tell anyone that I found it, I'd say I'd just bought it and won. In fact, the only people who would know I had won with the ticket is my immediate family. I doubt I'd tell my friends that I just won £30,000.
 
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