I'm not a real superstitious guy but I firmly believe that stealing money or taking a voucher will bring you miles of bad karma. You will lose photos, get shut out of winners, etc.
At the track this past month I went to use a self serve machine near the racing office. There are little wooden ledges in front of these machines. On the ledge just sitting there was a wallet. Someone had obviously gotten out their wallet to get out their voucher and rested the wallet on the ledge and forgotten.
I took it up to security and lost and found which is WAY down at the other end of the grandstand. It was stuffed with cash. I made the security guy count the cash in front of me and take down my name and phone number and address. I also wrote down the name and address on the guys liscense in the wallet. Old guy, from Massachusetts.
This past Monday I got a letter in the mail from the guy who said he had freaked out completely and had bad moments while he realized his wallet was gone. He said he had credit cards and bank cards and personal memento photos and thought for sure at the racetrack of all places that he was screwed for sure. He couldn't believe that someone turned it in with the money still in it. He also included a 100 dollar gift certificate to a restaurant in town here because he said anyone honest enough to turn in that wallet would probably not accept cash.
Quite frankly the letter itself was what was worth reading. I once had a scumbag steal an 800 dollar voucher in an OTB on me. The feeling is so sickening that it can't even be described.
It will never do anyone any good to steal money at the track, I'm convinced it comes back to them in spades. Just wait Kev, one day that guy will be alive in a DD and really need the cash. His horse will get steadied one million times or he will be dq'd or he will lose an agonizing photo. Those folks are the lowest possible forms of life.