http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060824/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_crime_lottery
Why would someone do that, embezzle 6k from employers to spend on lottery tickets...every day? Don't say greed is THAT powerful.... And how could the stores she bought so many tickets from not realize? Hmm.
2006-08-24 06:20:25 · 15 answers · asked by *babydoll* 6 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Yes, one would think the employers would notice too. Good point.
2006-08-24 10:41:47 · update #1
I heard it on the local news.
Mental illness, no sense of morals, etc.
$6,000 a day, EVERY day? How did she have time to scratch the tickets?
2006-08-24 06:25:51 · answer #1 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Haha.. What and idiot.
Do you know that if you have a lottery drawing (Powerball style) with 5 ball slots and balls that range in number from 1 to 50 you have a 1 in 312,500,000 chance of winning with one ticket. If you bought 6,000 tickets for it (I'm assuming the lady didn't by any scratch-off tickets) That'd be one in 52083 1/3. Divided by 365 for the years it would take her to win it would be 142 years and about until that September from when she first started out. That's just ridiculous. She aparently didn't have much education in math!!
2006-08-24 13:27:30 · answer #2 · answered by I want my *old* MTV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that goes beyond greed, that's an addiction.
let's not hold the minimum wage clerks at the 7-11 accountable here. Her employers, on the other hand, were awfully slow on the draw to figure out what was happening.
2006-08-24 13:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by mikep426 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That stuff happens all the time. I read in local news here that a mayor of a town near where I live was stealing money from the city and going to Las Vegas to gamble. He made morgage payments with city money for his house. It's a greedy world we live in full of greedy people.
2006-08-24 14:18:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the greed factor playing here. It's addiction. This one woman I know sold her lake house for $250,000 and was living high in the gambling world. She couldn't stop. Now she lost her house, her car, and is living with her daughter. Addiction at it's finest.
2006-08-24 13:26:29 · answer #5 · answered by windandwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't six thousand; it was $2.3 million!!!!!!!
Buying so many? There are lottery pools of people with enough disposable income that they consolidate their money and buy thousands of lottery tickets at once. No questions asked.
2006-08-24 13:24:25 · answer #6 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems pretty stupid, huh. If you're going to steal that much money...but it in an offshore account and "disappear". What could you do with lottery winnings that you couldn't do with embezzeled office funds.
2006-08-24 13:22:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed, power, money, love, sex, anger, vengence are all very strong reasons to kill, why not embezzle.
2006-08-24 15:02:02 · answer #8 · answered by Annie R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the stores just want sales... that person needs to make restitution yes greed is very powerfull
2006-08-24 13:28:13 · answer #9 · answered by nas88car300 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wonder how much she won but now she'll be saying good morning to Bertha shes the female counterpart to bubba
2006-08-24 13:35:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋