News Forum - Woman steals 10,000 baht in lottery tickets from vendors in Isaan

[Thaiger]

A woman in the Isaan province Nakhon Ratchasima allegedly stole more than 100 lottery tickets, which cost a total of around 10,000 baht. CCTV footage from a local lottery shop shows a woman, who appears to be around 60 years old, talking tickets from the shop. The woman walked into the shop pretending to look at the numbers, but was she was actually stealing them, using a newspaper to cover her stash of tickets. The lottery tickets that were stolen were packed as sets of five and two. She reportedly got over 100 lottery tickets which cost around 10,000 baht. […]

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[Prosaap]

What are (talking tickets)?

[Santa]

21 minutes ago, Prosaap said:

What are (talking tickets)?

They are tickets that tell the buyer that they are the winning tickets. More expensive than the normal ticket but well worth the extra cost.   

[Prosaap]

Aah so thats why they are 100-120 bath 555

[kalyan]

at 60 years she is venturing to rob, which cannot be caught red handed, she would have made up her mind to this theft.  Poverty has no limits for age !

[Santa]

1 hour ago, kalyan said:

 Poverty has no limits for age !

We don't know if she was poor.

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Evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor – and shoplifting is only 'the first layer of the onion'

 

[palooka]

Might be an old bar girl down on her luck, or just keeping in practice on some old skills.

[Ackerman]

It is most probably that the woman wanted to check her luck even though it was an illegal way, heh :D
Some people want to make their way from scratch to cash even like this, which happens sometimes. Who knows, maybe if she would read some https://lottothrill.com/blog/lotteries/scratch-and-win-cash/ articles -- she would abandon her idea to steal, lmao. 

Edited March 13, 2022 by Ackerman
Grammar and punctual issues

[samiam123]

 

“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Edited March 13, 2022 by samiam123