You can't trust newsagents.
 

Would you believe a shopkeeper tried to do a 73 year old out of thier lottery winnings, thank god for Camelot :)


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-winnings.html

Shady Ba5tards

Pleased to hear they both got 12 months inside, have lost their jobs AND the accomodation that went with it - Couldn't have happened to a more deserving pair :razz:

Dodgy fcukers.
Serves them right.

Good of Mr. Badham-Davies to forgive them, but I am not sure about this bit- 'The only thing that upset me, to an extent, is it really spoiled my village life. I loved going into that village shop.'

I understand that he loved going to the village shop, and the dodgy fcukers have made it sour for him. But as a £156k lottery winner, his village life wouldn't have been same as before; to an extent. Some people who didn't want to know him would have become his mates, and some of the people who knew him would have ignored him out of jealousy. So, I think winning a 6 figure lottery itself can be a barrier for someone to lead a normal life as before. As he has his winning money now, I wish him much happiness and peace .

Pretty much ruined their livelihoods . Not long after the scratchcards came out there was a shopkeeper near here done for scratching off the corners and only selling the losers.

I thought our local newsagents were bad enough charging 5p extra on postage stamps (which I don't think is allowed).

I haven't heard anyone winning thousands or even hundreds on scratchcards. I hear that some people win maximum 2 quid or a tenner on a scartchcard and greedily invest it back into buying more scratchcards. Or, if a tenner, they'll buy a packet of fags and invest rest of the money back into buying more scratchcards. Now when they scratch these ones with their mucky looking 2p., they will win fcuk all. Then they see their @rse. Either scratchcards are cons, or the shopkeepers are dodgy. It could be both. I never buy lottery or a scratchcard. What's the point? I have more chance of getting scratched by my cats than winning any money by scratching a conning scratchcard.

Nah, 156 grand is not that big an amount, people earn that every year, and easy to keep quiet.

When scratch cards first came out, a woman on the next road, won 20 grand. It was on local tv etc. She then kicked out her boyfriend. He put a brick through her front window in revenge.

what I love about the lottery is that it really brings people and communities together

just a bit of harmless fun

They may earn £156k every year, but not in one shot to the village shop. I don't think so.

LOL I meant for a poor old pensioner residing in a council bungalow, in a little village, on his handful pension etc., £156k is a big sum. As a matter of fact, a tax free £156k is big sum for the one who earns £156k a year as well, because you don't have to graft for a year for that sum on a drip. Instead, all you did was that you walked to the village shop, bought a lottery ticket from two dodgy fcukers, grassed them up for acting too smart with you, and got the lump sum for doing virtually nothing. Come on. :D

I agree that £156k or even little a bit more can be kept quiet. Its just that I was imagining this old gentleman in a really clicquy village where other villagers may even know what colour undies he wears. You know what I mean.

Lottery - Self assesed stupidity tax. Even if you win, you're still retarded. I'm surprised the old duffer knew he was being fleeced :wonder:

Not such a good thing, as he will lose all his benefits and if he spends it at a rate that is faster than the amount he gets in benefit would of lasted,then when he tries to claim again they will refuse him, so he is no better off at all, in fact it's actually more hastle than it's worth, GB not as great as people think.:thumb:

Ours sell multi pack crisps as single packs, ditto for canned drinks :mad:

TX.

Tax on fools apparently ;)

TX.

Where does it say he is on benefits? or even living in council accomodation for that matter.

Greedy swines. Am glad they got caught out. Robbing a pensioner :nono:

Yeah, and that takes the matter back to what I stated before, that the winner's life couldn't have as nice as he says it could have been, whether he was conned by those dishonest shop keepers or not. I stated that winning a £156k lottery can bring him troubles in terms of social and amusement aspects of his life. Going to the shop was a bit of an amusement for him, which has been ruined. He blames the shop keepers' dishonesty for that, although he kindly forgives them, too. You demonstrate how lottery will have a negative impact upon his benefits. So, at the end, we derive the same conclusion that winning the lottery itself causes a misery; a socio-econmic encumbrance for this elderly, retired individual. Not that he should have left the money with those swindler shop keepers, or struck a crafty deal with them:D but let's face it, he was doomed since the moment he set his eyes on that lottery ticket. Going by what you say, I bet he doesn't know whether to laugh or cry right now.

I did say I was imagining. :D

Ditchmyster will clarify where he got his piece of info from. :D

Oh, right. So, someone did win 20k on a scratchcard at some point. That's good, but see, what winning money can do? Even just 20k drove the woman nuts, than the boyfriend went nuts! No good.

Absolutely. Did you see that shopkeeper's picture? He even LOOKS horrible.

As a side issue - If there ARE any lottery winners watching, it so happens that I have some magic beans for sale. They're probably worth a lot more, but I would be willing to sell. Offers in the region of £150,000 please :norty:

Do they have to be surgically implanted into the sack??

Always thought people take a huge chance handing over their ticket for the shopkeeper to check automatically on the machine. "Sorry, you haven't won anything again :(" Then a couple of weeks later they are staying at their new villa in Spain :eek:

"Relatives will look after the couple’s ten-year-old daughter while they serve their sentences. Mr Badham-Davies, 73, who has since received his full winnings, said after the hearing that he forgave the Jeevarajahs."

The benefits of extended families.

So don't trust doggy Indian shopkeepers? :D

Have they moved Sri Lanka then?

Bit bloody daft for 156 k :cuckoo:

Does make you wonder how often its actually happened before undetected

Maybe hes a good christian , or not so poor a pensioner

A couple of times I have went into my local shop and handed tickets over saying there is £10 to claim on this. Each time the woman serving gave me a lecture saying you should never say how much there is to be claimed, and always ask to see the ticket after it has been put through the machine just incase you made a mistake and there is more than £10.

Around Christmas I went into claim a tenner, ended up getting £76 back :) paid for my xmas beers.

Thats a bit catty

its happened to the girlfriend too , then she goes and buys more tickets with the proceeds

:rolleyes: