Boy I would be pissed How do we know if they were winners or not anyways..if the ticket shows a win, you should collect..mistake or not!!
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_30720.aspx
Tuesday January 6, 2009
CityNews.ca Staff
Thomas Noftall really could have used the money. The 27-year-old lives in a basement apartment in Brampton with his wife and 21-month-old son.
So when the steelworker bought four Fruit Smash tickets and spent his New Year's Eve scratching off the numbers, you can't blame him for getting excited and thinking 2009 was going to be his year.
The first numbers that appeared showed he won $75,000. Three others totaled up to another 60-grand. With child support payments in his rear view mirror and times in his industry being tough, Noftall thought he'd hit the big time.
But it now appears all he really hit was a bump in the road.
When the young dad went to the Ontario Lottery Office to claim his six figure bonanza, he was stunned to learn the entity that controls the games of chance in this province wasn't about to give him a cheque for anything.
OLG claims the $3 tickets were misprinted and under the organization's strict rules, that means they're void. Spokesman Don Pister explains some 1,100 of the scratchers were printed with misaligned symbols and the corporation wasn't aware of the error until winners started calling in.
He apologizes for the problem, calls it very rare, and is asking anyone who may have purchased one of the accidental winners to contact the corporation immediately.
And he adds the rules on these kinds of odd occurrences are very clear, laid out to protect the system. Read them here.
The mistakes have been pulled from stores, but Noftall is far from satisfied, insisting his dreams of a better life have been pulled out, too. He claims some lottery officials told him he'd receive his money because the mistake wasn't his fault, while others have since dashed his hopes.
And he's not calling the OLG again.
This time he's considering testing his luck with a lawyer, trying to recoup some of the $135,000 he believed he'd won to start the New Year.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_30720.aspx
Tuesday January 6, 2009
CityNews.ca Staff
Thomas Noftall really could have used the money. The 27-year-old lives in a basement apartment in Brampton with his wife and 21-month-old son.
So when the steelworker bought four Fruit Smash tickets and spent his New Year's Eve scratching off the numbers, you can't blame him for getting excited and thinking 2009 was going to be his year.
The first numbers that appeared showed he won $75,000. Three others totaled up to another 60-grand. With child support payments in his rear view mirror and times in his industry being tough, Noftall thought he'd hit the big time.
But it now appears all he really hit was a bump in the road.
When the young dad went to the Ontario Lottery Office to claim his six figure bonanza, he was stunned to learn the entity that controls the games of chance in this province wasn't about to give him a cheque for anything.
OLG claims the $3 tickets were misprinted and under the organization's strict rules, that means they're void. Spokesman Don Pister explains some 1,100 of the scratchers were printed with misaligned symbols and the corporation wasn't aware of the error until winners started calling in.
He apologizes for the problem, calls it very rare, and is asking anyone who may have purchased one of the accidental winners to contact the corporation immediately.
And he adds the rules on these kinds of odd occurrences are very clear, laid out to protect the system. Read them here.
The mistakes have been pulled from stores, but Noftall is far from satisfied, insisting his dreams of a better life have been pulled out, too. He claims some lottery officials told him he'd receive his money because the mistake wasn't his fault, while others have since dashed his hopes.
And he's not calling the OLG again.
This time he's considering testing his luck with a lawyer, trying to recoup some of the $135,000 he believed he'd won to start the New Year.