Brickbat: O Lucky Man

Mickey Stone faces up to a year in jail for buying a lottery ticket. Stone won $900 on the ticket, which he said he bought at a store in Huntington, Indiana. But he actually bought the ticket at the liquor store he works at in Winchester. He has been charged with violating a state law banning employees from buying a ticket from the store in which they work.
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Ah.
...ha!
A man of few words.
Yeah, "bought"...that's a funny one. Probably scratched off 600 bucks worth of "free tickets" before he "won", more likely.