This past Christmas, a man in Vacaville, California, learned a grim, but useful, holiday lesson: Sometimes, don’t spread glad tidings. Suspecting that one of his roommates had purloined the winning ticket while he was sleeping, the man went to the local police department, which recounted the episode Tuesday on Facebook. The following day, on Dec. 22, the man’s 35-year-old roommate, Adul Saosongyang, attempted to cash in on a winning scratch-off ticket at the same lottery office in Sacramento, police said. But the winning ticket wasn’t worth a meager $10,000, the roommate was told. He had purchased a similar scratch card, and then swapped it out for the winning ticket while his unsuspecting roommate was sleeping.

Source: National Post January 09, 2019 13:30 UTC