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

[sightless]

This joke to people who need money is very mean, and person who conducted it deserves a few shots in the kidney

[tshort]

The joke should have been revealed when they talk about using it to pay bills and debts so they won't have to struggle month to month.

This can be drawn out in a situation where the recipient plans on blowing it in Vegas on hookers and blow.

I think this is a dumb gift for a family gathering. I could see it in a gift exchange with friends that usually involves exchanging lots of alcohol.

[Dementia]

Sponger,

Maybe I have an odd sense of humor or lack of compassion. Either way, I don't think these tickets are a big deal or worthy of all this discussion. It's a joke, if one feels the urge to harm themself or cry over it they should seriously consider re-evaluating their life.

Again, it is tasteless if you know for a fact the person you give it to will react so emotionally. But you can't make that judgment on their credit score alone! Plenty of people in debt have a strong sense of humor and would not break down after receiving a freaking joke ticket.

[mikech]

i might just be a heartless bastard but i think the joke was REALLY funny. the guy who gave it didn't know who was gonna receive it, so obviously there was no malice behind it. if the couple who got the gag gift had no sense of humor, that's their effin problem.

[Sponger.]

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?

[Dementia]

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The lack of reading comprehension/common sense that you are displaying in this thread rivals your performance in the Britney Spears thread.

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You compared giving this ticket to a doctor playing a joke on a patient who is dying of cancer.

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Playing this prank on someone who is in serious debt is along the lines of a doctor telling a cancer patient that he is cured and then saying just kidding. Obviously it's not as serious as that, but it's the same idea.

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Those were your words, and that was in fact a ridiculous analogy which I processed correctly as such.

It was also equally as ridiculous to argue against giving such a ticket because of the fact that some people contemplate suicide to escape their piles of debt (again-your words).

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The person's financial status is incredibly relevant. Being in debt/not being able to make ends meet can put people into severe depression and even cause some people to commit suicide.

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[mikech]

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All we're saying is that it's an extremely dick move to give one of these to somebody who is having money problems.

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from later posts by the original poster:

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my cousin did not know who would end up with the tickets

it was clear that my cousin did not know the eventual ticket holder

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The lack of reading comprehension/common sense that you are displaying in this thread rivals your performance in the Britney Spears thread.

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pot, meet kettle.

[ridonkulous]

I wish I could see the ticket that was used, most of the backs are similar to this..

[Sponger.]

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the guy who gave it didn't know who was gonna receive it, so obviously there was no malice behind it.

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So tricking a random person into believing that they've won $10,000 doesn't have any malice behind it because they didn't know who would recieve it? Wow. Ok.....

[edfurlong]

Do you think it would be funny if they were close friends?

Hint: it would.