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A trusted employee of a south Columbus gas station is now wanted for questioning by Columbus police for allegedly stealing a winning lottery ticket from his own store, 10TV's Kevin Landers reported.

[Unrepentant Cynic]

Sheesh!

How do you parody this stuff?

Oh well.

Good grief!

Cameras, no money, steal anyway. I'll send my wife to cash in the ticket. They'll never find out.

[Rob]

wait a minute...$750,000 on a 2 million dollar winner???? i thought taxes were like 50%????

[BOOGER]

This is total crap. I cannot believe this guy is NOT in JAIL yet. How hard would it be to find this dude with that much money in his account. When caught, he should have to pay back every cent INCLUDING the 20. he stole when he pocketed that ticket.

[Sami]

I think owner didn't report till two months till he found out that his employee won ticket shame on him greedy.He threaten employee if he don't give half of money he will report him in. Calling his friends to tell him to give money or he will report him in that was from person who the ricket. Shame that guy luck if he won.

[ron]

The owner is greedy he want part of money that why accusing him of stealing.

[johm]

Sami wrote:

I think owner didn't report till two months till he found out that his employee won ticket shame on him greedy.He threaten employee if he don't give half of money he will report him in. Calling his friends to tell him to give money or he will report him in that was from person who the ricket. Shame that guy luck if he won.

ya! see when he found out his eemployee won the ticket, he threatened him to give him half the money or he'll call the police! and i bet he actually paid for it.

[rami]

i did see the tape the guy steal 23 tiket in just one hour and all that on camera the employee did steal alot of tiket and he call the owner after the owner find out that the employee steal the tiket he offer the owner $40,000 and the owner told him the money should go back to the ohio lotary becusae he steal maney tiket befor and after he win

[Harley Doc]

Yes it should be rescinded and the person prosecuted.

[maemae]

lol
hee hehe
hahaha

[Wow]

Scratch the ticket, see it's a winner. Pay for the ticket.

[bdogjohnson]

This guy was obviously a peon to the store owners, probably made fun of and made to do work for a soda and a bag of chips. They assumed he wasn't intelligent enough to be worried about. He should get the money, that tape doesn't prove anything either way if he paid or didn't and who, of the store owners, was away from the counter long enough for him to steal it, Ive never been in a store that had a counter missing its owner. He outsmarted them and came out ahead, they're jealous! THE MONEY IS HIS.

[LMAO]

I just have one question how did the employee "steal" the lottery tickets if I understand working in a store we had to keep the lottery money seperate from the store money. We also had to write down the tickets numbers when we left each day. So i am not understanding how this owner did not know that the employee wasstealing tickets and if he was stealing how long before i fire you? Hey mister owner I need a job.

[I agree]

LMAO wrote:

I just have one question how did the employee "steal" the lottery tickets if I understand working in a store we had to keep the lottery money seperate from the store money. We also had to write down the tickets numbers when we left each day. So i am not understanding how this owner did not know that the employee wasstealing tickets and if he was stealing how long before i fire you? Hey mister owner I need a job.

LOL I work in a gas station. In my particular station, everything is kept together, and everyone has to write down the lottery numbers. If it's short, everyone is scrutinized.

[Christian]

Yes everything is kept together and you have to keep the count on the tickets, and the lottery till would of came up short if the tickets were stolen, and that many being stolen a lottery agent would of came to investigate. Seen it happen in stores before. So what makes this place special as to have so many tickets stolen and not investigated?

[davike44]

I owned a store for 14 years. This owner didn't report the ticket missing until he found out his employee hit it big! Can he tell the day the ticket was stolen? Did the empployee still have a job after ticket was stolen? YES. Employee keeps all money!! Shame on store owner for trying to cash in on employees luck!!!

[homer]

rami wrote:

i did see the tape the guy steal 23 tiket in just one hour and all that on camera the employee did steal alot of tiket and he call the owner after the owner find out that the employee steal the tiket he offer the owner $40,000 and the owner told him the money should go back to the ohio lotary becusae he steal maney tiket befor and after he win

Go back to the country your from. To bad they don't have check spell on this.

[slammed4g]

homer wrote:

<quoted text> Go back to the country your from. To bad they don't have check spell on this.

Ya know, you're right...it is TOO bad they dont.

Ya see Homer, you are an idiot as well. so shut it.

just in case you are TOO stupid, its obviously too not to.

anywho, i'd like to see what happens with this...being told what the video shows and actually seeing it are different so we could speculate 'til we are blue in the face and still know nothing.

cheers.

[LINDA]

Ship this guys a.s.s back to his own country.

[belles190]

this same thing happend at the M&M market on oakland park in Columbus North side. employee mistakenly replayed a cutomers ticket twice and forgot to void the ticket it was a winner he took it and ran.... Lottery officals need to look into every time a worker redeems a winner from the place they are employedor even thier immediate family members

[unrepentant]

Rob wrote:

wait a minute...$750,000 on a 2 million dollar winner???? i thought taxes were like 50%????

That is the real crime!