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Rabies

£37m lotto ticket found. Would you give it back ?
Might buy the person that lost it a pint but thats it

skynews.co.uk

Lafortezza

Tough shit on her for dropping it, you have the winning lottery ticket? then look after it,
37million... nice

whosurpaddy

ud imagine they have the same checks as over here. if you go into lotto headquarters over here with a winning ticket, the first thing they ask you is where did u buy they ticket and the approx time, i presume if u cant answer then u dont get the cash. otherwise why would they ask.

mr_angry

The woman who "found" it does the same numbers every week. And these are those same numbers. Its now looking doubtful that she's lying.

Beëlzebooze

Originally posted by whosurpaddy
ud imagine they have the same checks as over here. if you go into lotto headquarters over here with a winning ticket, the first thing they ask you is where did u buy they ticket and the approx time, i presume if u cant answer then u dont get the cash. otherwise why would they ask.

sjeesh, I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, let alone where I bought last saturday's lotto ticket, or when.....

seamus

Split in half.

FFS 37m / 2 == 18.5m, oh no, I'm only half the multi-millionaire I was!

Frankly, If you lose it tough. Unless she has documentation proving that she chose those numbers, tough. She has no legal standing. If she lost a briefcase filled with $37m and couldn't prove that it was hers.....em tough.

dudara

that happened recently in america as well. A woman claimed to have lost her ticket, only for another woman to emerge and claim the jackpot, which was something like $167m. it was allowed, because the lottery ticket was a "bearer bond" which means that whoever is in possession of the ticket gets the cash.

Lafortezza

Originally posted by dudara
$167m.

Originally posted by Rabies
37m.

jebus the Irish lottery is poo

-ADREN-

heh yea but look at our population

if you go into lotto headquarters over here with a winning ticket, the first thing they ask you is where did u buy they ticket and the approx time, i presume if u cant answer then u dont get the cash. otherwise why would they ask.

I'm hoping your getting that info from past experience..

Want to give us a lend of some cash
The kinda lend that I dont have to pay back ?

sceptre

Originally posted by dudara
that happened recently in america as well. A woman claimed to have lost her ticket, only for another woman to emerge and claim the jackpot, which was something like $167m. it was allowed, because the lottery ticket was a "bearer bond" which means that whoever is in possession of the ticket gets the cash.

Actually the same case

yahoo link (better-written story as well)
Sky turned $162 million into £37 million

woosaysdan

AH SURE YOU WIN SOME YOU LOOSE SOME

Rabies

Originally posted by sceptre

Sky turned $162 million into £37 million

ah well, whats a million or two here and there when you are a multi millionaire. just a bit of spare change

SuperStudent

They were both African American weren't they?

Sposs

Amazingly that $162 million after state taxes in America turns into $52 million covnverted to sterling and its £37 million so Sky aren't wrong.

dudara

In the american lotteries you can receive the jackpot as a lump sum, and therefore pay high taxes, or you can choose to receive it in full in yearly allowances. Isn't that the way?

Sposs

Yes it's yearly installments over 30 years or a lump sum that whacks you for a load of tax.

SuperStudent

Originally posted by dudara
In the american lotteries you can receive the jackpot as a lump sum, and therefore pay high taxes, or you can choose to receive it in full in yearly allowances. Isn't that the way?

Yes, it is.
But the majority take the Lump sum. If there is a recession which could happen anytime the State can freeze the allowances as they are not of vital importance and the person didn't earn it. Also, if you ever get in trouble with the Authoritys, say as a johnie foreigner, and you get your Visa taken away then they can stop your allowance, but if you've the lump sum they can't.

sceptre

Originally posted by Sposs
Amazingly that $162 million after state taxes in America turns into $52 million covnverted to sterling and its £37 million so Sky aren't wrong.

Ah fair enough. I'd a feeling that this was the reason but I was too lazy to work it out.

dudara

If there is a recession which could happen anytime the State can freeze the allowances as they are not of vital importance and the person didn't earn it

but take ~$160 over 30 years, that's over $5 million a year. If you didn't have some of that saved, you'd be an awful muppet

seamus

Originally posted by dudara
but take ~$160 over 30 years, that's over $5 million a year. If you didn't have some of that saved, you'd be an awful muppet

As I said though, it's probably more money than the person has ever seen in their life. The amount doesn't really matter. It's a lot, before or after tax. $5m a year doesn't allow you to *really* splash out anyway.

Anyone with any sense could employ some safe-bet stockbrokers and very quickly turn their before tax sum into a much bigger sum than they'd get over x amount of years

Lump

To be honest for the Irish Lotto, you are supposed to sign the back of every lotto slip and or scratch card you get. Problem solved. If she lost it at some one found it well done. The person saying it was hers might has discarded it thinking it was an old one etc etc.



John

sceptre

Seems she was lying all along about having lost it.

Still not as good as that episode of Cops I saw a few weeks back where some woman phoned the fuzz after she supposedly paid 20 bucks for crack but was given plaster.

phaxx

Originally posted by SuperStudent
They were both African American weren't they?

Why is that relevant?

Agent Smith

if it was mine.... i say give it back.....


if i found it..... then tough hard shi+

nlgbbbblth

Originally posted by Rabies
£37m lotto ticket found. Would you give it back ?

Yes

Carbon Blob

Originally posted by phaxx
Why is that relevant?

I woulda thought it was relevant so that noone with too much time on their hands over the pond could hop out and play the race card, "Obviously they don't believe this poor woman because she's black, they're just siding with the white woman! RACIST!!"

Since they both happen to be black, clears that situation up nicely. Now that she's admitted she's lying though, it ain't all that relevant anymore.

DMT

Originally posted by whosurpaddy
ud imagine they have the same checks as over here. if you go into lotto headquarters over here with a winning ticket, the first thing they ask you is where did u buy they ticket and the approx time, i presume if u cant answer then u dont get the cash. otherwise why would they ask.

But doesn't it say no purchase necessary on the back? And I doubt it says anything about having to say where you bought it to be able to claim the money.

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by DMT
But doesn't it say no purchase necessary on the back? And I doubt it says anything about having to say where you bought it to be able to claim the money.

i dont see what no purchase necessary has to do with being asked where u bought the ticket?

and i dont think it actually does say anything about knowing where u bought the ticket on the ticket itself, but thats their preferred method of validation. theres a book,think its called irish lotto millionaires, that explains a lot of the hoopla around winning the lotto.

btw I heard on the fm104 morning news today that the woman who claimed that she lost the ticket has admitted that she made the whole thing up and could now go to jail for up to 6 months.