100,000 Lottery Ticket Plucked From Trash

[Freak]

Karrie Jeremiah pulled a discarded lottery ticket from a restaurant trash can and hit the jackpot. Two other people had purchased the $5 Hoosier Lottery scratch-off ticket last week at the Chaperral Cafe. When a clerk at the downtown cafe told them it wasn't the $40 winner they were hoping for, they threw it away, lottery officials said.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2005-...to_x.htm?csp=34

 

[GAVol]

"If I drop $100,000 in the street and walk away and the next person picks it up, it's their money," she said.

Interesting value system at work there.

Somebody is about to get sued.

 

[OWB]

Originally posted by GAVol@Feb 20, 2005 4:27 PM
Interesting value system at work there.

:question: Would you give it back?

 

[GAVol]

Yeah . . . I'd probably have a tear in my eye as I did it, but I'd have to go to the cops with it.

 

[OWB]

If I were the person who found it, I would have kept my mouth shut. Taxes took a chunk out of that didn't it?

 

[surrealvol]

Winning big money in the lottery would really be...well...SURREAL. :rocks:

 

[allvol]

Isn't it quite different to find 'lost' money than to find 'money' that was freely given away, ie thrown away?

'Lost' is to imply that someone is missing it and is looking for it.

However, a ticket thrown in the trash is neither missed nor being looked for.

 

[orangetd88]

One man's trash...lol

I bet there is a lawsuit, however, I dunno whether they have a legit case or not.

 

[WolfofLon]

I agree, if it was discarded, then there is no claim of ownership. If it were "lost" that is an issue, but this was thrown away. There is no moral or value system here on a discarded item.