Misprinted Florida $500K Scratch-Off lotto Ticket ?
The Florida Lottery says $250,000 Scratch-Off Ticket Is Misprinted
Tina Coley thought she hit $250,000, but the Florida lottery said it's not paying.
The lottery said what appeared to be a winning ticket was a misprint.
She bought this at the Sunoco Food Mart just outside Oviedo.
"I'm sitting at the light and I scratched the ticket and realize that the two matched the
two on the ticket and it was worth $250,000. My hands started shaking.
I couldn't drive. She then drove to Casselberry to the Florida lottery office,
where they copied the ticket and sent the original to Tallahassee.
Two weeks later, a lottery official called to say the ticket was a pretty big mistake.
"They said it's a misprint. They misprinted the ticket and they say it's not their responsibility to pay me any of the money," Coley said.
In fact, they put it in writing with a letter to Coley saying, "There is a printing defect which could make the 22 appear as a 2." They said, no dice, and offered her $300-worth of lottery tickets for her trouble.
"Whether they misprinted it or correctly printed it, it's not my fault that they didn't print the ticket properly and, as far as I was concerned, I won $250,000.
The Florida Lottery has stated that they print 500-million tickets a year and
that "the very nature of any mechanical printing process can never guarantee 100% accuracy." They said, under the number two, a partial printing of an abbreviation for 22 appears,
so the lottery decided the mistake should play out in their own favor.
Lottery officials originally told Coley she could have her winning ticket back,
but now that they've said 'Sorry, Charlie,' they decided they'd keep the questionable ticket.
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