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Originally Posted by jpops757
Why didnt they imediately pay the wager. They tried to deter the bettor by refusing to pay when the ticket initally, hoping that the bettor would exeept the excuse. Kinda like a insurance policy that refuses to pay until they are backed into a corner. When did they offer to pay? After the ,so called over zealous reporter reporting the facts. Do you think anyone other than this guy with the winning ticket ever got refunded there money? If you do. I have the next Derby winner in my backyard and will sell him to you for 50 bucks.
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What you are asking for is for every teller regardless of the circumstance to pay a ticket that they receive from a customer who is claiming it's a winner. When said teller put this man's ticket into the machine it gave him/her some sort of error message. He was probably then forwarded to the supervisor of that line, the supervisor probably called the mutuels manager, who eventually had to contact the VP of Operations. It is simply not a one-hour process. If you are expecting La Downs, or any track for that matter, to contact every patron who bought a ticket on a particular race where the money didn't make it into the pool and refund them, then I have something to sell you. A lot of times when these wagering hubs go down, and I know because Sam Houston is one for Scientific Games, it takes hours if not days for the system to get back to normal.
I can't speak for anyone who also bought a ticket because there hasn't been a groundbreaking story about that person in the Shreveport Times. I can't imagine Louisiana Downs, as it seems everyone here is so intent on proving, would legitimately attempt to keep people from getting money when they present their tickets. However, they have to present their tickets first. Now, with this information having been made public they can set up a window for refunds on bets made that particular day during the outage. That would be a good-faith effort at keeping everything fair.
NT