Tennessee shop clerk is caught on CCTV celebrating stealing customers $1MILLION lottery ticket

Daily Mail ^ | 23 Jul 2024 | MELISSA KOENIG

[blueplum]

oopsie

[Jonty30]

That clerk also probably cost the store its license to sell lottery.

[OldHarbor]

Yo, Patel, you are on camera . Not the best or brightest . Send him back

[Jonty30]

I can tell you that the lottery must pay out, if it cannot prove that you didn’t steal it. However, you had better know when and where it was purchased and to show if you paid credit, debit, or cash. Those are the questions you will be asked if you try to redeem for anything requiring redemption at the lottery office.

Otherwise, it could be an investigation for up to six weeks while they check out cameras and everything.

[neverevergiveup]

He deserves to sit in jail.

[nikos1121]

I think this happens a lot. Never give the clerk your ticket to scratch.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Sit in jail and then deported back to his shit hole country. The USA has more than enough home grown criminals (democrats) already. /spit

[virgil]

I think I would have made copies of the ticket and saw my lawyer first with that much money involved. And you’re supposed to sign the ticket immediately.

[Fireone]

Yes, if a million dollar winner, I’d even consider paying for private security to accompany me to redeem it.

[MayflowerMadam]

Patel

[wbarmy]

Makes you wonder if there are people who hang around at the lottery office to see if a winner comes in for the big payouts.

[LouAvul]

lottery officials vet all of the major winners

So, my fantasy of finding a superjackpot lottery ticket in the curb by my mailbox won't work? I can't just say "I found it?"

[11th_VA]

Patel .. nuf said

[ByteMercenary]

“He deserves to sit in jail.” - Why?

Why do the taxpayers need to fund anything beyond a one-way plane ticket to the sh!t-whole country of his choosing? Give him a Judge Roy Bean trial (12 minutes) and ship him out.

[moovova]

Patel? Gonna buy a motel with the winnings?

[Colt1851Navy]

Feed him to the grizzly bears in Romania.

[stevio]

Immigration is our strength!

[wardaddy]

I know this station

Asian run stations are kind of like black crime

All are not bad

But a lot are

In TN outside of the big chains here like Daily’s and Racetrack and Thorntons etc

I’d wager Asians run 90% of Independent stores

[HartleyMBaldwin]

the lottery must pay out, if it cannot prove that you didn’t steal it

How's that again?

[DCBryan1]

Take of his hand. Trust me, it works. Then deport his family.