if you didn't win, would you sue?

[Kitsa]

So in a city near here, a bunch of city workers got together on a lottery ticket and happened to win the powerball and now they're all very wealthy.

And workers who normally put in for a ticket, but didn't that week, are suing them because they feel that they should have gotten some money too.

They're arguing that they normally bought in, and played almost every week, and for one reason or another they didn't that one time and that's when it won, and they got nothing.

I don't know...I think the thought of a windfall so close but so far away is more than most people can take, but I think by all rights, if they didn't play they didn't win.

[Dimnos]

Yea. No pay no play.

[MetalMilitia]

I can't think of any way of looking at this were it's anything but a frivolous abuse of your legal system.
Funny thing is in doing this the people that didn't win are going to end up with even less money.

[Evil Robot]

If I were the people who won, I would use some of the money to have them killed.

[Dr. Boogie]

I guess if they could twist it around so that their not buying a ticket is someone's fault (other than their own), they might have a case that wouldn't be thrown out immediately. It would only buy them a few minutes, but maybe they could think up a genius argument to win the case in that time.

[Kitsa]

Well, if I understand correctly from the latest article, this is what happened:

- Big group of people pooled money and bought lottery tickets on the 9th. No big winners, but enough money to buy more tickets.

- Some of the money from the winnings on the 9th bought the mess of tickets on the 12th, one of which was the big winner.

So they argue that since they put some of the original money in and those winnings got carried over into the second pot, with the big winnings, to which they hadn't made an additional contribution, they were owed some of that money.

Now that it's a little clearer, I can see a very tenuous claim there. But still.

[Tadao]

Yeah, the group should have never put the winnings back into tickets. I would sue them for my share too then.

[Colonel Flagg]

Just hire a math student to figure out the percentage each factory worker is owed. It's simple algebra, after all.

[Supafly345]

I hope the court fees ruin the amount awarded.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I think they should be owed a percentage of what the first set of tickets won. Nothing more.


It's like if group B who bought the winning ticket, then went out and bought guns and went on a killing spree. Group A who bought tickets the first time around would not be charged for murder. Am I right?

[kahljorn]

lol thats horrible

[Evil Robot]

This is why gambling is a sin in the bible.