Fake Winning Lottery Ticket Causes Ecstasy -- Then Fury. What Now?

[The Truth]

I received one of those scratch offs one time. It was for 25k.


I wasn't remotely excited. I just felt bad that I considered not telling anyone at all. I thought about just putting it in my pocket and cashing it later instead of making a big fuss.


I decided to tell everyone after about 2 seconds. I said, "I think I won 25k." About 4 seconds later I realized it was a joke as I read the back.


So, gag lasted a total of maybe 15 seconds.



Granted the only thing I do with money is buy other people stuff. I don't really want to buy anything. I didn't get very excited either way.

::shrug::


I guess overall I found it slightly amusing. Mostly because I thought about how much my mother and some aunts and uncles love scratch offs, and how huge it would be on them.

I decided not to do it to them cause they would flip out. People that are generally not good money managers always need money, and get extremely pumped when they run into any sum of money. I've seen people go nuts over 500 dollar scratch offs. These same people could buy a new car with the money they've put into gambling, and they generally could use a new car.

[El Diablo]

Choppy,

"If anyone pulled this on me or anyone close to me I'd beat the living [censored] out of them."

No you wouldn't.

[By-Tor]

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15 minutes later, my cousin (the black sheep of the family, really) announces

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maybe this is why he thought it was funny and let it drag on.

if i knew i had to spend the whole [censored] day with [censored] that called me the 'black sheep', i would have done the same thing.

[selurah]

LOL. I haven't read any replies yet, but this is g'dm funny.

[Austiger]

I saw a similar joke on some stupid reality show. These guys gave their friend a lottery ticket at a birthday party and they sat around the TV later as the winning numbers were drawn. Little did the B'day boy know, but what he was watching was actually a tape of the previous night's drawing and it was all a set-up. So he goes nuts thinking he just won a multi-million dollar lottery. Eventually when they let him in on the joke, well obv. he was ticked. He didn't speak to any of them for a week, but eventually got over it.

I think what your cousin did was deplorable and a horrible joke. It's akin to telling someone that a friend or family member has died and then saying "gotcha!" Okay, it's not quite that bad but it's pretty bad.

[selurah]

Well after reading some replies, I think some of you guys are strung way too tight. This was f'n funny, plain and simple. I mean who the hell falls for it anyway. This gag is like a decade old. I'm sure the cousin thought that the person who got it was gonna be like, "Real funny with the fake tickets."

[DirtyDiggs]

Can someone explain this style of humor too me? (I'm asking this honestly and not rhetorically.) I've never really gotten it. I don't automatically laugh when someone stumbles on a chair leg walking by either.

I've never really gotten shows like Punk'd either. You get the person really excited or real upset at a situation that could be really but isn't......mmmm, still not getting whats funny about it. I could see it being funny if they exhibited really odd/oulandish behavior because of it, but in the OP's post it seems like a pretty typical reaction that about 90% of the population would have.

[MicroBob]

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Some jokes just aren't funny. It doesn't matter if you call them jokes or not, you're still a [censored] [censored] and it is still a sick thing to do. Just calling them "jokes" doesn't make it magically ok to do anything you want. How is this not extremely [censored] obvious to you?

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Sponger is RIGHT!!!

And FWIW, I don't think the woman was necessarily emotionally disturbed to act this way.
I think a lot of people, especially those in her situation, would act the same way.

It's incredibly cruel.

So he didn't know who was going to get it. Big deal.
He knew when they DID get it...and he let them celebrate their victory for 15 minutes. So this IS completely his fault.
Bad taste to get the gift in the first place, but he could have gotten away with not being a total d-bag if he had clued them in within 10 seconds or so.


How about we set it up so that we get a big studio-audience and get Dementia on Deal or No Deal.
Howie Mandel is there and we set up all the suitcases somehow so that he is definitely going to keep on going (keep giving him crappy deals, while all the high numbers still remain) until finally he wins $1-million.

If you're seen the show you've seen the emotions and tears these people have just on the decision-making and the money they MIGHT have already won.

Then let him celebrate for an hour or so that he really did win a million before bringing out Ashton Kutcher to tell him he's been PUNKED.


This is obviously a bit crueler than the $10k lottery ticket. But it's only more severe, otherwise it isn't any different.

The Deal or No deal thing would be an incredibly cruel act.
The $10k lottery ticket thing is extremely cruel also.

[Dale Dough]

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It's akin to telling someone that a friend or family member has died and then saying "gotcha!" Okay, it's not quite that bad but it's pretty bad.

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Would this really be that bad? I don't recall specific instances, but I'm pretty sure whenever I experienced first worry/grief/whatever negative emotion, and then relief, I felt better afterwards then before. In fact, I think the relief would feel immensely good, like one of the best moments in my life good, if the news was really really bad. No?

[tom10167]

Hey Jeff, Jeff I have some really good news!
Really what?
Your grandma's getting released from the hospital today, they didn't think she was going to make it, but she did!

Oh my god! Really? That's amazing!!! *starts cying*
No! She died! Get it? AHAHAHAHAHAHA