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Originally Posted by Talk Host
This is no surprise. It happens often. I have had the following intellectual discussion many times.
You live in Florida and the lotto is 25 million. You call your friend in Boise and she says, "buy me a ticket." So you do. But you also purchase some tickets for yourself. You now have possession of all of them and your friends ticket wins, but you have the ticket.
I know what most people "SAY" they would do, but I wonder how many would actually do the right thing.
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I have never had any of these
problems associated with
winning a large lottery
, but I have bought tickets for others on occasion. The way I handled it was to tell them their numbers ahead of time, mostly so they could have the excitement of seeing the drawing, but it would handle any potential confusion or hard feelings.
It will be interesting if we ever learn the facts of this current case. If they are not careful, half the money will be gone in litigation, along with half of them before they get anything.