Scum of the Earth

GPK · #1 09-14-2006, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by 2MinsToPost

did ya leave it, walk away?

made a couple bets...left it in there...was turned around for about 30 seconds before I realized it. I was no more than 15 feet from it...I went back...not there. I asked aloud to the people sitting around me and not one person uttered a word.

People have no morals..

The Bid · #2 09-14-2006, 07:01 PM

Well the good thing is it was just 50 dollars. The guy who took your ticket wont hit a dollar exacta for a week.

2MinsToPost · #3 09-14-2006, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

made a couple bets...left it in there...was turned around for about 30 seconds before I realized it. I was no more than 15 feet from it...I went back...not there. I asked aloud to the people sitting around me and not one person uttered a word.

People have no morals..

thats bad

if you left and was gone for say a couple minutes i could "sorta" understand

The Bid · #4 09-14-2006, 07:08 PM

Ill let someone hold 50, if they are bold enough to ask, they are bold enough to hold.

Gander · #5 09-14-2006, 07:12 PM

Last race of this past Saratoga meet I go to the window and this guy that was ahead of me walks away really quickly leaving behind a ticket which I now have in my hand. I look at it, its a $250 win ticket, twice, on which horse I didnt really remember. I get out of line and yell to the guy and give him his ticket. I get back in line and bet $160 win on "D Money". Y'all know how this ends and what my point is. Do the right thing.

randallscott35 · #6 09-14-2006, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Gander

Last race of this past Saratoga meet I go to the window and this guy that was ahead of me walks away really quickly leaving behind a ticket which I now have in my hand. I look at it, its a $250 win ticket, twice, on which horse I didnt really remember. I get out of line and yell to the guy and give him his ticket. I get back in line and bet $160 win on "D Money". Y'all know how this ends and what my point is. Do the right thing.

Yep. Karma is a real thing. Always tip well and don't mess with peoples vouchers. Words to live by.

ninetoone · #7 09-14-2006, 07:21 PM

I think I would have been lurking by those machines for awhile waiting for that SOB to show back up...

2Hot4TV · #8 09-14-2006, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

Yep. Karma is a real thing. Always tip well and don't mess with peoples vouchers. Words to live by.

Agree with you on this Tip well and you will be rewarded.

packerbacker7964 · #9 09-14-2006, 09:12 PM

I know at Great Lakes Downs here in Michigan if you lost/forgot your ticket in the machine you can tell someone and they'll cancel the ticket for you. They'll ask you what machine you lost it in and refund your money. They'll ask you question's like last track bet and what it paid and were any more bets made. I lost a $25 voucher and got my money back the same day. I've seen as high as a $700 dollar one returned before there.

2MinsToPost · #10 09-14-2006, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by packerbacker7964

I know at Great Lakes Downs here in Michigan if you lost/forgot your ticket in the machine you can tell someone and they'll cancel the ticket for you. They'll ask you what machine you lost it in and refund your money. They'll ask you question's like last track bet and what it paid and were any more bets made. I lost a $25 voucher and got my money back the same day. I've seen as high as a $700 dollar one returned before there.

they refund your money the same day?

2MinsToPost · #11 09-14-2006, 07:21 PM

try working as a teller and accidently handing back the wrong change on a busy saturday. think you will see that money back? not

and you as the teller are responsible for the loss on the till.

GPK · #12 09-14-2006, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by 2MinsToPost

thats bad

if you left and was gone for say a couple minutes i could "sorta" understand

there is no "sorta" about it Curt....the money did NOT belong to the person that took it....plain and simple.

I have had many times that I have turned a voucher in or asked who was at the machine last....I found a voucher for $200+ one time and not one time did the thought ever enter my mind to take that money. The first words out of my mouth were "who was at this machine last??"

It's called honesty and integrity

2MinsToPost · #13 09-14-2006, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

there is no "sorta" about it Curt....the money did NOT belong to the person that took it....plain and simple.

I have had many times that I have turned a voucher in or asked who was at the machine last....I found a voucher for $200+ one time and not one time did the thought ever enter my mind to take that money. The first words out of my mouth were "who was at this machine last??"

It's called honesty and integrity

i hear ya man - but - i gotta be honest here. if you find a voucher ok, let me back up. last year i found a voucher in a machine that was for $78. so, I did not know who was before me so i rolled to the office and asked them if anyone had reported it. no one had. so i held onto it, letting nancy know i had it. came around 4pm and no one had made a report. nancy told me to keep it because there was little they could do if it was reported at this point.

bout a week later i again asked the office if it had been officaly reported and she told me no. dude, yes it is called honesty but in reality a voucher sitting in a machine that no one knows whoo it belongs to is like a $50 bill laying on the floor.

the cat that took it, based on your time frame, had to know it was yours. thats bull - we all know that. but...................................

if you walk up to a machine and find a voucher and no one was before you that you could see all you can do is let management know. then, if no one reports it in a couple hours kevin it is a $50 bill on the street!

i agree, that was a bad deal but it is the truth...............

GPK · #14 09-14-2006, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by 2MinsToPost

i hear ya man - but - i gotta be honest here. if you find a voucher ok, let me back up. last year i found a voucher in a machine that was for $78. so, I did not know who was before me so i rolled to the office and asked them if anyone had reported it. no one had. so i held onto it, letting nancy know i had it. came around 4pm and no one had made a report. nancy told me to keep it because there was little they could do if it was reported at this point.

bout a week later i again asked the office if it had been officaly reported and she told me no. dude, yes it is called honesty but in reality a voucher sitting in a machine that no one knows whoo it belongs to is like a $50 bill laying on the floor.

the cat that took it, based on your time frame, had to know it was yours. thats bull - we all know that. but...................................

if you walk up to a machine and find a voucher and no one was before you that you could see all you can do is let management know. then, if no one reports it in a couple hours kevin it is a $50 bill on the street!

i agree, that was a bad deal but it is the truth...............

I simply disagree Curt.....

2MinsToPost · #15 09-14-2006, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

I simply disagree Curt.....

I see both sides of this, honestly. Just having worked as a Teller makes me see a different side is all. Fact is honesty is honesty and what is yours is yours - somebody knew that was your $50. All I am saying is if a voucher is laying around and no one knows who it might belong to and the owner is not savy enough to track their money within a couple hours of losing it, well, you know.

GPK · #16 09-14-2006, 07:55 PM

plain and simple....if it ain't mine...I don't want it.

ninetoone · #17 09-14-2006, 07:58 PM

It sounded to me like the perp would have been within earshot by the time GPK got back and said something (30 seconds, right?)...something tells me there was no report filed to the track office

2MinsToPost · #18 09-14-2006, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I get what you are saying here, but I doubt when people lose a voucher they go up and tell someone. Most people let it go, or try by themselves to see who might have taken it. In GPK's case, he was making it very obvious he was the one, and whomever took it knew it. They're just a scumbag. Seriously, I've brought up a voucher I have found to the teller, and there is no doubt in my mind the teller took it, so I do get what you are saying, it's a tough call.

exactly because what the teller can do is just pocket that money - and it's not a problem with management! if ya turn it into the head teller - they should hold onto it until the close of the business day and then guess what - somebody gets some cash. no win