$70 Million, would you want to know?

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So, say you bought a lotto ticket leave it in the pocket of your jeans and it goes through the wash. Or maybe it was on the kitchen counter and someone swept it in with a bunch of junk mail and it hits the trash. Or worse, it's just sitting in a pile of paper or in a drawer at your house somewhere, or under the seat of your car.

Then the ticket wins $70 Million. You don't know about it, you just keep living your life. Would you want to know? Would you go looking for it having heard the ticket was bought in Scarborough and you live there and buy lotto tickets? I'd certainly have a look around, but I'd never want to know it was me. That so close but dropped it feeling would be next to impossible to shake, I don't think I ever could.

 

[luvsdaty]

Wouldn't want to know

 

[mb22361432]

Ignorance is bliss in this situation. If you knew you had it and lost it, it would eat at you for the rest of your life

 

[ModSquad]

Can you imagine losing the prize ticket like that ! That’s nightmare material right there lol.I wouldn’t want to know.

 

[Bizzaynass]

I definitely wouldn't want to know. No need for me to be more miserable than I already am.

 

[Newb808]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20..._her_down_as_50_million_lotto_max_winner.html
If I knew I had destroyed or lost a ticket when there was a jackpot winner in my area , I’d do more than look and wouldn’t waste time. I’d reach out to the BCL and say I believe(baselessly ) I had won but misplaced the ticket and supply them with the time of day, merchant and CC number.
Other than that, or like this guy:

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.2936338

no way I’d want to know lmao

 

[angry anderson]

What you don't know can't hurt you in this case. However. Having missed out on winning $32000000 twice by 1 number and getting a paltry $2000 for having 6 out of 7 numbers, that pisses me off more. If you get 6 out of 7 numbers you should get a little more than a stinking 2 grand.

 

[Rusty razor]

What you don't know can't hurt you in this case. However. Having missed out on winning $32000000 twice by 1 number and getting a paltry $2000 for having 6 out of 7 numbers, that pisses me off more. If you get 6 out of 7 numbers you should get a little more than a stinking 2 grand.

Name explained 😆

 

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oh, the OLG definitely knows exactly the location date and time of the purchase, they are 100% not sharing anything beyond the city name to prevent exactly those kinds of claims.

There have been several winning tickets invalidated over the years in Ontario after the winner couldn't name the place they bought the ticket or how they paid for it. One of them was a clear case of theft, I want to say it was a relative or neighbor stole the ticket off the counter from the real winner and tried to claim as their own, can't recall the details. They have also invalidated claims from store clerks who check tickets for customers and keep the winners for themselves, tell the customer they lost and try to claim the win later. It's one reason the scanners now make a celebration type noise when a winner is scanned, to stop that shit from happening.

 

[Hawker17]

Its like having a one night stand and finding out it was your cousin, some things are better left unknown

 

[westwoody]

Self checker said $20 winner.
The clerk told me my ticket was not a winner and threw it in the garbage. I asked for it back, made sure it was mine because it had my name on it.
Always write your name on your ticket as soon as you buy it.
Always use the self checker!
Never saw that clerk at that store after that, she must have got fired.

 

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when I was a young university type lad, we would go to this pub for lunch a lot. They sold those breakopen pull tab type ticket things. As we became regulars, the waitress clued us in on a few things. Each stack of 1000 tickets loaded had a set number of winners, many small ones, to keep the suckers going, a few mid sized ones and usually 1 big one (500) that they could parade around to drum up more excitement. Something like 600-700 of the 1000 dollars made by each stack sold was given away, and busy places would go through 5-10 stacks a week. The pub got a share, the rest to the lotto corp.

Thing is, the staff that worked every day knew which stacks had paid off the big prize and which ones hadn't. Particularly when the stacks got low, if the big prize hadn't been won, you knew it was coming. The staff was not allowed to buy tickets, but they had very valuable info as a result. On more than one occasion we would get tipped that such and such game was ripe. Especially if they were down to the last 100 or 200 tickets, you could make good money by simply buying the rest of the stack, knowing the 500 winner was in there. The waitress would get a very nice tip and we'd split the rest. This was 30 years ago at least now, not sure if they changed those rules.

 

[BaldMember]

2021 lottomax 15m was unclaimed in Vancouver. Wonder who dropped it.

 

[Banger77_2.0]

2021 lottomax 15m was unclaimed in Vancouver. Wonder who dropped it.

Kind of find it scamish that BCLC didn't make a bigger effort to find the $15M winner like OLG did for this $50M winner. When it came down to the last week before the ticket expired, BCLC should have at least released the Vancouver neighborhood the ticket was bought from.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20..._her_down_as_50_million_lotto_max_winner.html
If I knew I had destroyed or lost a ticket when there was a jackpot winner in my area , I’d do more than look and wouldn’t waste time. I’d reach out to the BCL and say I believe(baselessly ) I had won but misplaced the ticket and supply them with the time of day, merchant and CC number.
Other than that, or like this guy:

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.2936338

no way I’d want to know lmao

 

[Banger77_2.0]

oh, the OLG definitely knows exactly the location date and time of the purchase, they are 100% not sharing anything beyond the city name to prevent exactly those kinds of claims.

There have been several winning tickets invalidated over the years in Ontario after the winner couldn't name the place they bought the ticket or how they paid for it. One of them was a clear case of theft, I want to say it was a relative or neighbor stole the ticket off the counter from the real winner and tried to claim as their own, can't recall the details. They have also invalidated claims from store clerks who check tickets for customers and keep the winners for themselves, tell the customer they lost and try to claim the win later. It's one reason the scanners now make a celebration type noise when a winner is scanned, to stop that shit from happening.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-family-sentenced-to-prison-for-12-5-m-lottery-scam

https://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/2017/10/12/8-of-ontario-s-most-notorious-lottery-scandals.html

OLG retailer insider win fiasco was beginning of stricter review of winners across Canada and upgrades to lotto machines with big displays showing the win.

 

[angry anderson]

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-family-sentenced-to-prison-for-12-5-m-lottery-scam

https://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/2017/10/12/8-of-ontario-s-most-notorious-lottery-scandals.html

OLG retailer insider win fiasco was beginning of stricter review of winners across Canada and upgrades to lotto machines with big displays showing the win.

There was a W5 story years ago about a certain lottery store north of Toronto in a small town, who's owners kept winning. At the time nothing much was done except the TV story and some muffled outrage.

 

[westwoody]

OLG retailer insider win fiasco

Jesus! Stealing 12 million from someone, he damn well deserves prison. A whole family of thieving assholes. And how many more did they steal that were never discovered.

 

[BaldMember]

Kind of find it scamish that BCLC didn't make a bigger effort to find the $15M winner like OLG did for this $50M winner. When it came down to the last week before the ticket expired, BCLC should have at least released the Vancouver neighborhood the ticket was bought from.

Agreed, they only did a few commercials and twitter tweets, that was it. I was in town that week, but I think I bought combo play number 9 649 instead of lottomax.

Must be some rich neighborhood where the bureaucrats at BCLC are like "nah, you guys rich enough already." or was some minority on CCTV so they bother.