Posted on 01/29/2015 1:56:05 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Canada's Supreme Court has said it will not hear the appeal of a Quebec man who missed a C$27m (£18m) lottery jackpot by seven seconds.
Joel Ifergan bought two tickets for the weekly lottery draw in 2008, but the second ticket with the winning numbers printed just after the deadline.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Cue Don Adams....
Almost every lottery ticket has a draw number on it, identifying which lottery date it is for. If the ticket had the same draw as when the winning numbers came up, seems more than reasonable that they should honor the ticket. If it had a different draw on it, for the next lottery date, then that’s a valid ticket for that draw, and didn’t win.
Good for him!
Me, I’m usually only a day late and a dollar short.
It is well known when the draw takes place. The lottery corporation is hard line on the time to ensure the integrity of the lottery. It was the man’s responsibility to buy that ticket before hand, but he didn’t.
“Almost every lottery ticket has a draw number on it, identifying which lottery date it is for. If the ticket had the same draw as when the winning numbers came up, seems more than reasonable that they should honor the ticket. If it had a different draw on it, for the next lottery date, then that’s a valid ticket for that draw, and didn’t win.”
It had the draw date for the ‘next day’ lottery.
Rules. They’re not for everybody.
“Officials in the US state of Iowa have arrested a lottery employee, after he was named as the mystery winner of a multimillion-dollar jackpot.
“Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, has been charged with two counts of fraud after a four-year investigation.
“He bought the Hot Lotto ticket in 2010, despite being legally prohibited, according to Iowa officials.
“Mr Tipton was caught after allegedly trying to claim the ticket through intermediaries.
“In 2010, Mr Tipton had been working as the Director of Information Security for the Multi-State Lottery Association. Employees are banned from buying tickets or winning prizes.
“The ticket Mr Tipton bought was worth over $14m (£9.2m).
“Suspicions were raised after a lawyer tried to claim the prize for an unnamed person in 2011.
“Iowa Lottery President Terry Rich said the case was one of the strangest in lottery history.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30843527
You can buy the tickets any time you want ... but there is a cut-off time for it to be valid for a particular lottery drawing. If he’s just ONE SECOND past the cut-off time, he’s just plain out of luck.
Now I don’t play the lottery normally (probably only five tickets in my lifetime, and I’m retirement age now) ... and I know that much!
most lottery (not scratch-off) have a 180 day limit in this country I think
Yep. Most US lotteries stop selling an hour before the draw time to avoid this kind of thing (or they used to).
Better call Saul!
I’d like to know if he chose the numbers on his own ticket.
Then, rejection would make sense.
If the numbers were random, wow, that would be brutal.
Did they refund his dollar?
Like in horse racing and sporting events, there is a post time and your bet has to be registered before that time for it to be valid.
“Did they refund his dollar?”
No. The ticket was a valid ticket .... for the next day.
Now I get it.
The linked article did not report that.
I thought the correct day and correct numbers were printed on his ticket, but the “delay” in Quebec meant the time stamp was 7 seconds after that drawing closed.
This guy is a nutcase.
He should have bought a 100,000 lottery tickets instead of investing it in his idiot lawsuit.
I think he’d be more pissed if they refunded his dollar after failing to buy his tickets on time.
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