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09-14-2006, 11:56 PM
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I try to be honest at the track. Not because I wouldn't want your money, but it has to do with karma. It's hard enough to make money at the track without losing it in the machine.
Sorry Kev. Luckily, there is ball cancer for folks who steal your cash. -TF 
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#2
09-15-2006, 10:05 AM
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As a fool who has done the same thing more than once, I sympathize with you, but it is your own fault.
People at OTBs aren't going to help you often, and many watch for that kind of thing. They have pretty much replaced the "stoopers" and "flippers" of the old days. As a long-timew player, I assume, you should pay more attention. But you already know that.
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09-15-2006, 10:19 AM
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I'm not a real superstitious guy but I firmly believe that stealing money or taking a voucher will bring you miles of bad karma. You will lose photos, get shut out of winners, etc.
At the track this past month I went to use a self serve machine near the racing office. There are little wooden ledges in front of these machines. On the ledge just sitting there was a wallet. Someone had obviously gotten out their wallet to get out their voucher and rested the wallet on the ledge and forgotten. I took it up to security and lost and found which is WAY down at the other end of the grandstand. It was stuffed with cash. I made the security guy count the cash in front of me and take down my name and phone number and address. I also wrote down the name and address on the guys liscense in the wallet. Old guy, from Massachusetts. This past Monday I got a letter in the mail from the guy who said he had freaked out completely and had bad moments while he realized his wallet was gone. He said he had credit cards and bank cards and personal memento photos and thought for sure at the racetrack of all places that he was screwed for sure. He couldn't believe that someone turned it in with the money still in it. He also included a 100 dollar gift certificate to a restaurant in town here because he said anyone honest enough to turn in that wallet would probably not accept cash. Quite frankly the letter itself was what was worth reading. I once had a scumbag steal an 800 dollar voucher in an OTB on me. The feeling is so sickening that it can't even be described. It will never do anyone any good to steal money at the track, I'm convinced it comes back to them in spades. Just wait Kev, one day that guy will be alive in a DD and really need the cash. His horse will get steadied one million times or he will be dq'd or he will lose an agonizing photo. Those folks are the lowest possible forms of life.
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09-15-2006, 10:32 AM
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I was at the track at Laurel once and this guy Kevin, found out his name later was betting in front of me. He left his $732.00 voucher in the machine I calmly took it out of the machine and kept in my hand,,,walked over to his table and threw it down to him and he says " oh thats a ticket that had already been cashed" I said you better check again dude because that is the ticket you left in the machine, man the look on his face was priceless he wanted to buy me a beer and I told him I dont drink beer and he said I have done that before only never to see my money again I cant believe you did that I told him that " people that cheat and steal never win" later that day I had the first 3 in the super but my 4th horse got nosed out at the wire and this was going to be a huge super but low and behold they flashed the results up and the super paid all in the 4th spot and I cashed for $2600.00 so I am a firm believer in karma!!! also I found out later he owned some horses that ran in NY and he gave out his horse to one day and the damn horse paid like $32 to win so I made my that money and more just from my interaction with him.
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#5
09-15-2006, 11:53 AM
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quit blowing smoke up our asses, just say you kept the cash
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09-15-2006, 11:21 AM
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GPK,chesepeke? Done the same thing there, many times however did lose once about hour or so later this comes up tells me that guy found your voucher. What can you do? I'll tell you I asked the little sob,of course hesaid he found nothing so Isaid find your teeth! Probably the same little pri**k that got you.the fu**ing scumbag,he is. must need to go to the dentist again.
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#7
09-15-2006, 11:47 AM
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I was at the Hampton OTB, not Chesapeake. Hampton is closer for me now that I am living in Yorktown.
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#9
09-15-2006, 11:52 AM
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if you left it its your fault, id do the same thing and cash the voucher or bet on it. Its just like if someone left some cash on the floor.
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09-15-2006, 04:33 PM
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09-15-2006, 05:14 PM
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lets not bull**** each other here, you find a 100 dollar bill on the street dont tell me you will not pick it up.
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09-17-2006, 12:36 AM
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damn this post! it made me have a conscience
 
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09-17-2006, 01:39 AM
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09-15-2006, 05:40 PM
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About 2 weeks ago I went to lone star and while making a bet at tote machine I cashed out. I noticed about $70 more than I had. I lingered around the machine and looked for someone looking for the abandoned voucher. I returned to my seat and called the tote tech. Explained that I claimed voucher and pointed the machine out. I didnt tell the tech how much and didnt make a big to-do, Thinking if I made the anounce ment that there would be several that would be making the claim. At LS they can track the vouchers and stop the use of a lost voucher. Sure enough the tech returned with a patron that had all the right info and I returned the money. Later in the day I hit an almost $500 pk-3 and a $3000 pk 4. I feel the searching for the owner of the 70 buck voucher was the key to my nice day.
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09-15-2006, 06:16 PM
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If I bet down where vouchers got stolen I would worry about it. If for some reason someone did get ahold of a voucher of mine and tried to cash it. I would find out who did it, and I would pay someone 500 to go break their nose
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09-14-2006, 09:25 PM
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Sorry.
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#17
09-14-2006, 09:29 PM
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Kev, I feel for you but you have to let it go now. No good can come out of being upset about it now. Know what I mean.
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09-14-2006, 09:32 PM
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I'm not upset anymore....upset was what I was at the OTB 
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#19
09-14-2006, 09:47 PM
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Basically as a rule, people suck. I agree kev, if its not mine, I wont take it. I dont care if i find it somewhere. I will turn it in to somebody because i didn't earn it in anyway. People don't need to take advantage of other people especially when its as blatant as this. This guy can't be happy with his life. Stealing money from a somebody he doesn't even know. I almost feel sorry for him how empty his life must be.
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#20
09-14-2006, 09:51 PM
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Sorry to hear about that. It's really sad the amount of scumbags that are out there. They all seem to end up at the racetrack or OTB as well. I could care less if it's a $1.50 and been sitting there for 3 days. If it's not mine, I want no part of it.
The good news is that there's a neat little trick that you can do to f#ck with these degenerate morons. It's fun and I make a point of doing it anytime I'm at a racetrack. As we all know, there are people that love to just wait and watch to see if someone leaves anything in a betting machine. Sometimes there's 2 or even 3 guys watching so they can make their move. So what I like to do is screw with them beyond belief. You need to have some change on your voucher. It can be $.10, $.20, $.30, whatever. Go up to a machine and proceed to punch in a monstrous superfecta ticket. In a 10 horse field there's 5040 combinations. Punch in an all/all/all/all, but use the actual numbers so they show up on the screen as opposed to the asterisks which denote use of the all button. $5040 shows up in the upper right corner of the machine for the bet amount. You'll see these ba$tards fly to the machine thinking they struck gold or something because all they see is the $5040. When they realize that's the bet amount and the actual voucher amount is only like $.30 or something they get angry, punch the machine, and look like your typical degenerate loser. Their dream of shoes without holes in them has just been dashed. It takes 10 seconds to do and is well worth it. Just take a few steps away from the machine and enjoy their pathetic nature. It's especially hysterical when you get a couple of them do their slow little walk toward the machine, and then literally buck elbows at each other trying to be the first one there. Is it a little sick and twisted? Sure, but it's a nice little way to throw a big ol' GFY right back at them. Good luck. Last edited by Mike_79 : 09-14-2006 at 09:54 PM.
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