Posted on 01/08/2020 2:29:07 PM PST by Red Badger
From our "People do the stupidest things" file, a story out of Mississippi demonstrates the unlimited capacity of human beings to surprise and amaze us. In this case, our amazement is directed at the incredible stupidity of which people are capable.
Two men walked into the Mississippi Lottery Corporation claim center and presented a scratch ticket that they said was worth $100,000. It must have looked pretty fishy because lottery employees immediately called the police.
Incredibly, the two men tried to pass off a losing lottery ticket by gluing the winning numbers on to the ticket.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
They probably don’t know a ‘Bar Code’ from a ‘Bar Tab’.....................
“Mississippi’s lottery is new, so these guys may not have known how the system is supposed to work”
yeah, they probably didn’t know you weren’t supposed to make fake tickets so obvious that any convenience store clerk could tell the difference just by looking at a poor glue job ;-)
“You know... for some odd reason I just can’t get mad at these guys.”
I know, right? American ingenuity and all of that ...
There’s a reason criminals are criminals....................
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