Daggers Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 A lottery player who won £1m on a ticket bought in Leicester has failed to claim their prize. You bloody moron.
Daggers Posted 9 July 2012 Author Posted 9 July 2012 Unless they died. Then the relations are morons.
Fox92 Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 I fail to see how you don't check your ticket! £1million, imagine...
Captain... Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 I fail to see how you don't check your ticket! £1million, imagine... Playing the lottery is stupid enough at the best of times, but to then not even bother checking you might as well walk down the street tossing pound coins down the gutter.
Guest MattP Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 To be honest the amount of times I've purchased lottery/raffle tickets and lost them through being pissed I'm sure I'll have thrown good money down the drain at some point.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 In these instances I often wonder if it's someone who belongs to a religion or society that frowns on gambling who has bought a lottery ticket for a lark, thought and "I might win a fiver, who's to know!"
Bellend Sebastian Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 I'd be really happy that the money had gone to good causes
DB11 Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 It was in the Millionaire Raffle. If you pass your ticket over the counter to be ran through the machine, does this flag up the Millionaire Raffle as well?
glenny_fox Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 I wouldn't call them morons. I can see an elderly person buying a lottery ticket (not knowing the raffle exists), looking at the numbers, then chucking it away as soon as they realise they haven't won. Then that million quid is lost forever.
Daggers Posted 9 July 2012 Author Posted 9 July 2012 I can see an elderly person buying a lottery ticket (not knowing the raffle exists), looking at the numbers, then chucking it away as soon as they realise they haven't won. Throwing away a winning ticket they bought for a competition they don't know exists? Sounds like a moron to me.
MPH Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 Throwing away a winning ticket they bought for a competition they don't know exists? Sounds like a moron to me. Some people just buy a weekly lottery ticket. Maybe they didnt get to hear about it being entered into a million pound raffle? I think thats what he means. You'll be that old too one day.
Rincewind Posted 9 July 2012 Posted 9 July 2012 Maybe they were bankers and did not need the money, it was less than their weekly bonus.
ozleicester Posted 10 July 2012 Posted 10 July 2012 Was just my way of donating to the Good Causes anonymously... ahh bugger
glenny_fox Posted 10 July 2012 Posted 10 July 2012 Throwing away a winning ticket they bought for a competition they don't know exists? Sounds like a moron to me. Quite a few people don't even know that raffle exist, or know how to check the winning raffle number. They see that their weekly numbers didn't win, chuck away the ticket without thinking to look at the raffle.
Music Junkie Posted 10 July 2012 Posted 10 July 2012 I am going to spend all day convincing my coworker it was him.
Captain... Posted 10 July 2012 Posted 10 July 2012 I am going to spend all day convincing my coworker it was him. You could probably do it, I am pretty sure everyone who bought the ticket from that area on that day must be thinking it could have been them. Can you buy lottery tickets online? That would be one way to keep track of it, or probably some sort of smart phone app. I will admit I had never heard of this raffle thing, I still don't really know what a thunderball is either, but then I don't buy lottery tickets and can't stand the awful lottery programme they used to do, I don't know if it is still the same format, but it was dire.
Rincewind Posted 10 July 2012 Posted 10 July 2012 Is it the number under the main 6 numbers? Seen it announced when they do the draw on TV. But surely if you are going to buy a lottery/raffle ticket you would ensure you know how it operates. The draw date what each section means and how to claim if that one in 16 million chance ibecomes a reality. If you think you have no chance just throw the £1 into a beggars hat as you go by. I'm sure they won't waste it on a lottery ticket.
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