A New Zealand lottery winner who double-checked his jackpot found he had been shortchanged thousands of dollars by a storeowner.
TVNZ reports the owner of a Lotto shop in Kapiti Coast told the man he had won $642 New Zealand ($440 U.S.). It turns out when the lucky winner checked with the Lottery Commission the actual payoff on his $6 ticket was 50 times that amount, or about $20,000 U.S. dollars.
The commission said Lotto shops are required to have computer screens visible to customers and to return winning tickets to their owners.
The Lotto shop owner is no longer in business and is scheduled to appear in court next week.
Guess he thought he won an annuity.
A New Zealand lottery winner who double-checked his jackpot found he had been shortchanged thousands of dollars by a storeowner.
Obviously, the man didn't double check his ticket very good or he would have known he had won more then $600 bucks.
I wonder if he could read. There are a lot of people who can't, and need help of the clerk.
Guess he thought he won an annuity.
Very funny!!
For some reason your comment had me laughing out loud. Guess I need a life.
I wonder if he could read. There are a lot of people who can't, and need help of the clerk.
That could be true, if it weren't for the fact that he said he double checked his ticket.
Hummmm Good point. Maybe its my reading needs improvement.
NZ may be a great place, but they took a hit on this one. Wouldn't worry, some other merchant will rip off some one this afternoon, in another part of the world, and the focus will change. Besides, with the robbery's and murder's taking place in their own cities, most people won't even read about this.
i hope they squeeze that kiwi dry for trying to steal from his fellow countryman. bad man bad man.
The clerk was a bad man, but the other man who "claimed" to have double checked his ticket has some fault on his part.
starchild_45, squeeze that Kiwi. that made me laugh. But merchants have a quick hand too! Some will get ya if they can. A cashier was talking real fast to my daughter one day and making sure she kept my daughter focused on lookiing at her face and she gave my daughter a bogus total and I saw my daughter giving her the money (I was about twenty-five feet away) and did I run to the counter. She had gotten my daughter's money and was about to give her an incorrect amount of change. Of course she "Made a mistake". I watched her for a few months and she eventually was dismissed form the store. Stores have employees who steal to ya'll.