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07/12/2018 at 21:48 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
07/12/2018 at 21:48 • Filed to: None | 2
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Imagine winning a lottery, erm, say $1.2million.
Now imagine agreeing to share said winnings with your nephew, say, even you yourself putting his name on the ticket.
Would you at the giant cheque handover, say, ‘see you in court’?. Not even left the building, but saying you’d see them in court for them not to get the share you said they could have.
Well an aunt in Nova Scotia did.
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A Canadian woman’s first act upon winning the lottery was to threaten to sue her nephew for his half of the C$1.2m ($912,000; £690,000) win.
“See you in court,” Barbara Reddick told Tyrone MacInnis as they both posed with the giant novelty cheque in Nova Scotia province.
Both their names were on the winning ticket from Wednesday night’s “Chase the Ace” draw.
But Ms Reddick claims she never promised to split the jackpot with him.
“I’m taking him to court,” she told those gathered at the winners’ ceremony on Thursday in Margaree Forks, a small community of about 3,400 people, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
“I’m getting a lawyer tomorrow.”
She denied the two had had an agreement.
But her nephew told reporters: “Yes, we did.”
Ms Reddick said: “He’s lying.”
She said she just put her nephew’s name on the ticket for luck “because he’s like a son to me - he was”.
Ms Reddick told reporters she only promised to share possible winnings from a smaller draw, not the jackpot.
“He was lucky, but not for half a million dollars,” she said.
Bernice Curley, chairwoman of the Margaree Forks Chase the Ace committee, said she was taken aback by the family feud.
“I’m a little bit disappointed that happened at the end,” she told CBC.
Chase the Ace is a lottery game popular all over Canada’s east coast, and often raises money for charity, in this instance for the regional fire services.
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“She said she just put her nephew’s name on the ticket for luck “ because he’s like a son to me - he was ”
So she put his name on for luck, that luck seems to of paid off (if you believe in luck). She then says ‘he’s like a son to me’, well that sounds sweet, but then. ‘he was’, hmm, she says was, did she it stop as soon as she found out the ticket won? I think so.
Ms Reddick told reporters she only promised to share possible winnings from a smaller draw, not the jackpot .
So if she won a smaller amount, say CAN$500, she’d share, but because it’s a lot more, nope.
So classy.
boxrocket
> Svend
07/12/2018 at 22:46 |
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She’s about a half million richer/less poor, at least temporarily
. Be thankful for it
, know you’ve enriched a family member’s life and perhaps find a way to join the funds together for something cool, and invest
and save the rest.
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Svend
> boxrocket
07/12/2018 at 22:55 |
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I think it’s worse in that she’s the one that put his name on the ticket, agreed to share, now going back on it but also to say, ‘see you in court’, WHILE AT the cheque hand over.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Svend
07/12/2018 at 23:28 |
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Wow, that makes me ashamed to say I am from Nova Scotia...what a b***h
move on her part...
They are pretty popular lotteries here, and pretty much exclusively used to raise money for charities and volunteer organizations like fire departments, etc. There are quite a few local to me around the Bridgewater/Lunenburg/Mahone Bay area that are on the go now as we speak, although nothing in terms of a value like the one in the story. I’ve never taken part in any, personally.
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ell, it’s her NEPHEW ‘that was like a son to me’....if she’s like a son to you, give him the money, it’s not like $600,000 is a small amount of money...especially if she invests some of her half...
It’s her own fault for putting his name on the ticket as well, legally they have to split it as far as I am concerned, so I don’t see how she has a legal leg to stand on if both their names were on the ticket...
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Svend
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
07/12/2018 at 23:44 |
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It’s just awful.
I can assume that whatever happens, this woman has not just lost ‘a son’ nephew, but a few other members of the family too.
We have some similar for health, environment, etc... charities but they are normally in the hundreds or small to medium thousands.
average user
> Svend
07/13/2018 at 06:16 |
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She voluntarily and intentionally put his name down. I hope the lawyer she hires will tell her it is a hopeless cause and she has no grounds to do anything.