IL CAPO Posted September 7, 2004 Sweden - The old saying that crime doesn't pay seems especially true for a teenager who allegedly stole a lottery ticket but was forced to hand it over after discovering it contained the jackpot win. The 15-year-old boy shoplifted the ticket from a grocery store outside the northeastern Swedish town of Oernskoeldsvik last week, local media reported on Tuesday. When he went home and scratched the ticket, he discovered it contained a winning combination worth up to 7.5 million kronor. Store manager Patrik Nygren, however, recognised the teenager on surveillance tapes, and went to the boy's house to reclaim it. Nygren then handed the winning ticket to police and reported the theft, the newspaper Oernsoeldsviks Allehanda reported. Nygren told the newspaper he would contact a lawyer to see if he could claim the winning ticket for himself. However, state-owned Svenska Spel, which runs all government lotteries in Sweden, said neither the boy nor Nygren will get the payoff. "Legally, we own the ticket until someone buys it, scrapes it and wins," Svenska Spel's spokesperson Claes Tellman said on Tuesday. "In this case, that hasn't happened." The winning lottery ticket, which cost 25 kronor, contained three clover symbols, which means the buyer would get to participate in another lottery broadcast on national TV every weekend. The winner is guaranteed a payoff of at least 10 000 kronor a month for 10 years, but could receive as much as 25 000 kronor a month for 25 years. The odds of getting a ticket with the three clover symbols is about one in three million, Tellman said. "This is an incredible case," Tellman said. "The probability of him stealing that ticket is extremely low." Now that is what i call a bad luck. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
