Posted on 09/17/2010 11:33:21 PM PDT by NoLibZone
NEW YORK — A retired New York transit worker is a big winner, but it took some detective work to find out just how big.
$14 million, it turns out.
The New York Lottery on Friday revealed the tale of Milledge McCassell, 72, of Laurelton, in hope of delivering a moral to the story.
McCassell on Aug. 26 took unsigned tickets he bought a day earlier to the Dynasty Deli and Grocery in Jamaica, Queens, to check for possible prizes.
He checked them himself on a store scanner, which for one ticket flashed "Big Winner."
“I knew it was a big prize winner,” McCassell said. “I just didn’t know how much.”
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McCassell took the ticket to the store clerk, who allegedly scanned the ticket and told McCassell it was no big deal.
McCassell tried to get the clerk to return the ticket, but he was told it had already been tossed or lost.
He left the store empty handed to get help.
“I knew something wasn’t right so the next day, I went to another retailer I trusted and together, we called the Lottery to file a complaint."
The trusted retailer, according to the New York Post, was Hussein Mesed, owner of the Ideal Stop, Dairy and Grill in Laurelton.
No mention of the would be thief.
Well, one explanation would be that they are the most likely to buy lottery tickets, since they have easy access and are trained to tell people how great they are to purchase.
Then there is the more obvious explanation that they are cheating — but lotteries are run by the state, and the state wouldn’t want ordinary folks to get away with cheating them out of their money.
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True story: I worked with this lady who had a dream that she had won the lottery, but I snatched the ticket away from her and cashed it. She didn’t speak to me for months...lol. Maybe she was upset because I lol’ed then, too.
Taha Derham Al Saidi, I see that now.
It was not even in the article that I read.
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