Posted on 09/18/2010 2:13:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
On Aug. 25, McCassell visited the Ideal Stop, Dairy and Grill in Laurelton, where the ex-signalman paid $2 to buy four randomly generated “Quick Pick” Lotto tickets for that night’s drawing.
‘He’s our best customer,” said store owner Hussein Mused. “He’s always in here buying breakfast. He likes to buy the $1 and $2 Lotto.”
The next day — unaware that six numbers on one of his tickets had hit for the $14 million first-prize jackpot — McCassell went to another lottery vendor, Dynasty Deli and Grocery on Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica.
There, McCassell himself checked the tickets on an electronic scanner available to customers.
When he did, the scanner flashed the thrilling message: “Big Winner!”
“I knew I was a big winner,” McCassell said today. “I just didn’t know how much.”
McCassell excitedly then gave the ticket to a clerk in the store so it could be scanned in another machine, which would reveal exactly how he had won.
But when the clerk scanned the ticket, he gave McCassell a shock.
The clerk “told him that it wasn’t a big winner,” said New York Lottery Director Gordon Medenica today.
When McCassell asked for the ticket back, the clerk told him “he had lost the ticket,” Medenica said.
“The clerk said, ‘I already threw it away,’ or something like that.”
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McCassell elected to receive a lump-sum payment of $8.7 million, which after taxes ends up being $5.5 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Taha Derham Al Saidi, owner of Dynasty Deli”
NEW HEADLINE
Muslim deli owner caught stealing winning lottery ticket from retired black man.
There fixed it....
This attempted theft will not be good for Dynasty Deli’s business.
Some how I am not surprised about the details of the perp.
Apparently it was the clerk who worked for the owner, but the article does mention the fact that when the lottery winner went back to the store to try to get his ticket back, everybody pretended not to have ever seen him before. The article doesnt mention if one of those liars was the store owner (probably was)
““Taha Derham Al Saidi, owner of Dynasty Deli””
The quick stop type business seems to be popular with Muzies,
or at least middle eastern people.
When I left west Tennessee over five years ago, they were running many in Memphis, and even out in the countryside,
50 miles away.
I never could understand it. They seem to be taking over all of that business.
Yeah, I hear yah...
I was back in Chicago years ago and noticed that they had bought the Dunkin Donut franchises...
You’d go in there, and spend 30 minutes picking out your donuts because you had to point to each one of them. They were clueless as to the names.
Instead of, “I’ll have two long johns, a chocalate cake, a plain, two bear claws and a bismark.”
I’d spend the whole time pointing to each donut I wanted, and the idiot behind the counter, asking me each time...”You mean dees? Dees one? Deess? Dees?”
It gets worse, when I went back last year...I rushed into one for donut and coffee one morning....and the same friggin thing happened...
“I’ll have a French donut please.”
Another idiot behind the counter starts pointing, “Dees? Deese one?”
Funny though. If the deli were owned by a Jew, the title of the article would read
“Man finally collects Lotto prize Jewish deli clerk allegedly tried to swipe.”
Hillman, Michigan is a very small town in N.E. lower Michigan (one of only two towns in America still celebrating VJ Day) about 30 miles west of Alpena. A couple of years ago, a mooslime bought a local gas station/food pantry. The word spread about who owned it, and he was gone in a couple of months. Nobody spent their money there.
And hotels/motels are being snatched up by people from the Indian subcontinent.
Suffice it to say that they have brought their own ideas of what constitutes ‘clean’ in terms of rooms and common areas.
These people throw nickels around like manhole covers so I leave it to your imagination to work out how much of their budgets are devoted to upkeep.
“Suffice it to say that they have brought their own ideas of what constitutes ‘clean’ in terms of rooms and common areas.”
Yep, looks like they brought all their bedbugs with them.
You should always sign the back of lottery tickets BEFORE the number is even drawn.
Saidi, whose store has been stripped of lottery vending machines and scratch-off tickets by state officials, then kicked a Post reporter out of the store.
Good! Although that would lead me to believe that it wasn't just the clerk involved.
I know that hotel properties and entire companies are passed around like playing cards but investors who own the name ‘Best Western’ or ‘Days Inn’ apparently have no concept of the damage that is being done to their brand(s).
It only takes one bad experience to put people off for life regardless of the next city they might visit. In my case the lobby was so shocking (wallpaper torn, every other light out, cobwebs, etc.) I checked out before I ever checked in. Our friend the owner claimed that he was still entitled to a $10 ‘room deposit.’ I told him to go and whistle up his *** for it.
“I know that hotel properties and entire companies are passed around like playing cards but investors who own the name ‘Best Western’ or ‘Days Inn’ apparently have no concept of the damage that is being done to their brand(s).”
Well, during my last years in the USA, and when married,
we concentrated all travel stays with either friends or B&Bs.
Of course, it can not always be done, especially with business travelers.
The B&Bs were always great, and we became friends with a number of the owners.
It's a CASH business my FRiend.
” It’s a CASH business my FRiend. “
Of course...That is obvious, but do Americans not like cash?
Americans can’t get the banks to loan them money to start or buy these businesses. We once asked our banker why it seemed every new arriving foreigner could? She told us they always seem to have a backer in their home country to put up money or make it look like they have enough. I also believe our government supports them as well. Of course all the while we ordinary Americans can’t get the start up cash.
“Americans can’t get the banks to loan them money to start or buy these businesses.”
That is an interesting point, and more evidence that America is finished.
These Muzies, or whatever, are not just taking over the cities, but also the rural heartlands.
My last little town of about 400 in west Tennessee was down to only two gas outlets, one or both owned by foreigners.
The one last grocery had been taken by east Indians.
Hes probably Indian and a Hindu. They run all the convenience stores. Greedy so and sos’, too. Half the time they won’t take a check or debit card. Only cash or credit card.
He was stealing from an infidel, no crime there.
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