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Congratulations: Store Clerk Runs off With a 1M Lottery Ticket

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Lawsuits, News, out of pocket, Random Ridiculousness

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A Texas store clerk pocketed a customer’s winning lottery ticket, cashed it in and left town quick, fast and in a hurry.

After a customer handed the clerk his ticket and asked if the numbers were called, the clerk said no, pocketed the ticket and cashed it in.  Apparently, the customer had no idea he had the winning numbers and trusted the clerk to be honest with him. The clerk got away with about $750,000 after taxes when he took the ticket to a lottery claim center in Austin and then had the money wired to a bank account.

Officers believe the clerk went back to his native country of Nepal.  We know that 1 million will go a long way there. If convicted, the man could face up to 20 years in prison.

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  • http://www.upsideyahead.wordpress.com Corduroy Johnson

    wow. poor fella

  • THE SoSelphish 1

    Sooooo.. messed up!

  • Old Timer

    I guess that was just too good to pass up.

    I wonder if the lottery people will make good on the winning ticket for the customer.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bD-ZYb0HL0 I’m Just Me: Keeping It Real Since 1983

    WELL DAXN!!!

    You got to pay attention when it comes to your lotto numbers. Come on now. People are gunning for extra dough.

  • whoozdat1

    Dateline just did a special on this! I check my mom’s numbers online for her now.

  • Kia

    She should not have given him her ticket.. Dummy!!

  • Aunt Viv

    That’s a da*n shame. Wow…

    I check my numbers online-don’t trust the store clerks. Didn’t they just bust a so-called Lotto ring recently for this?

  • Da Hook

    That’s why people need to learn how to read and write. Just look at the number yourself

  • Nique

    LMAO!! Thats what happens when you dont go online or call the number on the back of the ticket!

    -whats up with the pic though??

  • Fabulous is Contagious

    The Karma that man is about to receive for stealing this ticket is going to be ignant! Surely you will reap what you sow. YIKES!

  • Alrighty Then…

    Damn! They should pay the original winner… SOMEBODY would have to come up off my bread… that’s crazy…

  • Camille

    How can they prove that the ticket was the customer’s to begin with? What a shame.

  • http://www.twitter.com/mastermk7 MasterMK

    Dumbass!

  • Me

    That was here in Prairie View, Texas.

  • huh

    Jai Ho!

  • Yoda

    Karma,

    But homie will live la vida loca in Nepal with that cash.

  • 2cents

    I wonder how long it took the numbnuts to realize their ticket had won.

  • Unkle Ruckus

    Shit, they tell you to sign the back of the ticket as soon as you get it. That would have been enough to stop him from cashing it.

  • LBCER

    That’s why you should sign the back of the ticket.

  • PUSSYCATFUN

    I SIGN THE BACK PLUS MAKE THEM GIVE IT BACK.

  • Roe

    Too Funny!

  • Yeah

    That happened in Grand Prairie, TX not Prairie View, TX.

  • POLO

    I never trusted them store clerks. The clerks sometimes will take the ticket and put it in the trash. At least here in the DMV the new lottery machines tell you if you won or not and you can scan your ticket yourself.

  • aleximaq

    I am so glad they have the automated machines here…I know if I hear “We’re in the Money”…playing…I better be getting my money….

  • DontBFooled

    It’s called always “sign your tickets right away people,” even if you don’t think it’s a winner! Whoever signs it is considered the owner. If you sign it, the lottery will take notice if it appears to be tampered with. They can backtrack to the point it was checked as winner focusing on security cameras. Some people never learn. You do not simply hand over your ticket to a minimum wage clerk or anyone for that matter. You can always cross out your signature later if you are sure that it is not a winner to prevent others from trying to copy and forge your name. Better be safe than sorry.

  • elektrikeccentrik

    @ Camille
    nice name… i don’t meet any people with my name
    shame on the customer for being so trusting. its a recession.

  • tasha lisa jamaican princess

    THATS MY MONEY RIGHT THERE I DNT PLAY WITH MY CASH….
    FIRST OF ALL THE CLERKS ARE AS JUST AS BROKE AS THE PERSON WHO IS CASHING THE TICKET, OR IS EVEN MORE BROKE….
    FOR SCRATCH OFF THEY CAN SCAN IT BUT THEY HAVE TO GIVE ME BACK MY TICKET.AND FOR THE LOTTERY I SCAN MY OWN TICKER OR LOOK IT UP ONLINE,SIGN THE BACK OF YOUR TICKETS GUYS…. THEM CLERKS BE CROOKS/THIEVES…

  • T-BREEZY

    That’s hilarious! I would’ve took the money and bounced too!

  • http://myspace.com/colefuzion Can I Express Myself

    i gotta say if i was the clerk i may have done the same thing and go back to my native land where the money would be super long

  • GoodKarma4Me

    I cant even blame the clerk…that customer is a dumb arse. Karma never works…that clerk is laughing all the way to Nepal…HA HA HA….SMDH

  • http://notbossip.com what?

    @GoodKarma4Me

    How do you have good karma if karma never works?

  • Rihanna’s sharp n pointy witchy fingernails took the oath

    actually, if people understood the concept of what “karma” truly means, they’d know that it really means the thief will suffer in the end. That money will come and go or bring him much sufferage. I hate liars n thieves.

  • MS AJJE

    HA HA

  • 1TruDiva w/the PlatinumVocals—Pimpin, Platinum style!!! J-Hud’s concert was OFF THE MEAT RACK!!!!!!!!!

    Dumb ASS!!!!

    Errbody and they mamma know NOT to leave the ticket with someone even AFTER checking the numbers or having them checked….winner OR loser!

    Idiot!

  • T

    Check your own shit, fools. If you are going to involve yourself in something, be 100 about your shit.

    http://www.lottostrategies.com has links to all the lottery results for all the states that have games.

  • LeT mE TelL Em

    check the scanner homie…that barcode aint there for no reason

  • Jamaquina.Cubana

    Bahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…..sorry to laugh but, that’s classic crazy!
    You DO NOT even stand NEAR them w/a possible WINNER in your hand, ya’herd me?! Even if the tix was for $20!!

  • Infinity

    Thats why when I have them check my ticket.. I ask for it back.. you neva know

  • 2cents

    @ im just sayin’

    LMAo u are going to hell lol

  • huh?

    i play the lottery and thats why i never ask the clerks to check my ticket…bc i could see myself doing or at least thinkin about doin some fu*d up shyt like that. i heck my own numbers and the few times ive asked a clerk to do it i always ask for my ticket back

  • Gaviota

    oh sh*t!! LOL

  • Gaviota

    NEVER TRUST ANYONE WITH MONEY!!! you can’t even trust yourself (sometimes)LOL! I’ll have $100 in my wallet and I go to the mall and damn… I look and I’ve already spent it. LOL< LOL, LOL<

  • Eddie

    A quote from Pigmeat markum ‘AIN’T NOTHING IN A DRUGSTOE WILL KILL YOU QUICKER THAN I WILL ABOUT MY MONEY” enquote

  • Dee-HTown

    A store clerk tried to do the same thing to me here in Houston also only my ticket was a $10.00 winning ticket…you have to be careful with the lotto…everybody want some change off your $!

  • http://www.madamethejourney.com Mme.

    he’s somewhere living large in Nepal … lol … damn

  • k2008

    He should had put his name on the back of the ticket . I also complete the information on the back of the ticket.

  • bococalady

    now we have the new machines in nyc where u can see what you won, but i dont agree with this because someone can see your winnings. i say look online for your numbers and that way these scammers cant win.

  • eve

    The store clerk went back to Nepal. Everyone is talking about Karma. Isn’t Nepal on the side of the world where karma is born. Man he may have a terrible time at home. Karma is going to tear a chunk out of him. If his family finds out they may not touch him for fear his bad Karma may rub off on them with that dirty money.He’s got it bad all around. Come back here go to jail. Stay in Nepal and get karma ganked.

  • Amanda Baby

    @eve. LOL!

  • addicted

    so funny that is what happens when ur ig

  • scorpio

    There’s some REAL broke MF in Nepal that will serve up some karma if this fool flaunts his shit…they’ll find him dismembered somewhere, I’m calling it now ;-)

  • JT

    I’m sorry but harassment is a crime

  • deesac

    that why I always take my ticket with me and check it later on the computer. Never never leave your ticket with a clerk.

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