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• BobP

  

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  What about teenagers?  Should teenagers have the right to buy the hope of paying for college through the purchase of a lottery ticket? 
  
  If a teenager plays illegally and wins, should the state have the right not to award the prize?  BobP
   
• golotto

  

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  I agree with those who advise them to play the larger multi-state jackpot games including HotLotto instead of scratchoffs.

  ... the lottery never fails to surprise!
• LANTERN

  

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  BobP

  His parents should claim the money for him and it (the money) should be put in the bank in his name for him to take when he is of legal age.

  Or something like that.

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• BobP

  

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• LANTERN

  

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  Well Bob there are only 3 other choices: He claims the money and gets nothing at all or the parents claim the money for themselves and do whatever they want to do with it, or he gives the ticket to a friend or somebody else to claim the money and then share the money between them, he has to take a chance and trust somebody and maybe get some money or not, or claim the money for himself and get no money for sure.

  There are not too many choices, maybe give the ticket to an older brother or sister and hope that he or she share the money with him.

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• BobP

  

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  Forth choice, the states could consider not making crimes out of things that are hardly criminal.  It isn't as though lottery is a gateway to gambing and pinball/video arcades are perfectly healthy. 
  
  Oh well, wonder what the outcome by now would be if I had bought a lottery ticket a week out of my paper route money and won an amount exciting to a kid.  Would I be any crazier or saner about the lottery by now?  BobP
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  M.Y.O.B.

  live and let live.

  I can't remember where I read it (probably here somewhere) but don't some states make people pay back certain things out of jackpot winnings? I know they do that in PA with back child support...

  I may not agree with betting money you can't afford to lose, but I would never assume it was my place to say anything....

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• percygrinder

  

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• boknows

  

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  do you think the well -off and middle class are the only ones with lottery dreams grammy?  poor people have every right to play  lotto games too. 
• BobP

  

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  Funny thing is, when you run across people opposed to the lottery or trying to prdvent one getting started, one of their main reasons is poor people will want to play it.  So much for freedom to play lotto among the blue noses, eh?  BobP
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  Everybody has the right to dream big. I would much rather see a homeless person hit the jackpot then the guy who won in 2000 shared the 360 milion jackpot and then said in an interview that its not big deal for him.
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  of course they should play.

  love to nibble those micey feet.

   

                               
• rowe81263

  

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  I voted don't buy , because here lately Texas scratch-offs suck-I haven't won in 3 months- when I stopped at a little hole-in-the-wall gas station in a town of pop.738,bought one $5 ticket (blazing 8) and won $400
• tntea

  

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  I work in a Lotto Store, and we card teens.  Must be 18 to play.

  I see a lot of sick players come in and play up to $140 a night on scratchies and leave disappointed.

   

  The most interesting thing about working there is all the tickets with winners I find in trash.  The first month I found over $400 bucks.  I now use the money found to play my Cash 3.  I dont find as much as in the beginning. Either the people got smarter or the people who didn't know how to play quit because they thought they were losing.
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