Black ICE Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040831/D84QD8GO0.html A Swedish teenager who shoplifted a winning lottery ticket that could be worth as much as $1 million has discovered the truth in that old adage 'crime doesn't pay'. The 15-year-old boy stole the scrape-off lottery ticket from a grocery store outside the northeastern Swedish town of Oernskoeldsvik last week, local media reported Tuesday. When he went home and scraped the ticket, he discovered it contained a winning combination worth as much as $1 million. However, state-owned Svenska Spel, which runs government lotteries in Sweden, said neither the boy nor store manager Nygren who caught him will get the payoff. I bet in some state of the US a laywer would find some way to get him to collect on that ticket minus a 60% fee.
stevestojan Posted September 1, 2004 Posted September 1, 2004 what they should do is go through the video camera system, find the person who bought the NEXT ticket of that kind, and give the money to them. He/She would have bought it, so why not.
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