Buyer who tossed $1m ticket "Its my money" - May Karma visit soon and often

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29. It should go to the Store Owner and the woman who claimed it.

The ticket's purchaser discarded it or threw it away. The 'ticket bin' is just a garbage for lazy people who'd toss their tickets on the floor or outside the store on the ground. It isn't any kind of vault or bank to hold your ticket for you to come back.

The store owner had the greatest 'claim' on that ticket as it was in her trashcan and had not been discarded by her. Until she puts it in the dumpster or on the curb she hasn't discarded it. The ticket's purchaser discarded it by tossing it in the bin.

I feel bad for the woman who claimed it but she really doesn't have any claim to a ticket she fished out of a garbage at someone's store when it hadn't been discarded by the owner. If she fished it out of a dumpster then it would have been hers but she didn't. The store's owner can't be expected to fish through all her trash cans and pickup the tickets some lazy people toss outside despite all the trash bins she puts out for them to not litter so she can see if any of them are winners.

It is likely that the owner wouldn't have checked any of the discarded tickets and they'd have gone into the trash with no one claiming it.

I'd like to see a split between the store owner and the ticket's claimant with the purchaser getting nothing. She trusted a machine and I believe scanned the wrong ticket or didn't scan it at all, then she discarded it. Thinking it won or not she tossed it away and on leaving it was no longer hers period.