It makes naive people wonder . We have known what they do for a long time . <| sep |> Snowie with it is my fave <| sep |> how could you ? <| sep |> I think this story is framed wrong . This does much more than line their pockets . It ' s a good thing . <| sep |> I didn ' t say she was well off , I was just saying in the big picture of life that amount of money is pretty small , especially when it was money she won by luck anyway . The saying easy come , easy go exists for a reason . If she was struggling to feed her children or pay medical bills then she shouldn ' t be buying lotto tickets anyway , and then being careless enough to lose it . If the winnings were a lot to her then it shows a lack of empathy to take someone worse off to court over it . The homeless man likely didn ' t have the money to return even if he wanted to , so now he ' s facing more hardship trying to repay the money , all because he didn ' t turn in a lotto ticket with no identifying info to the police . Again , if it was thousands of dollars or more it would be different , but it was a couple hundred bucks there was a net loss to society with the amount of resources she used pursuing it . Think about the police involved , the judge , the bureaucrats , her own time , the journalists time , and our own time spent reading about it . Society wasted far more on that ticket then it was worth .