Grandma’s joy over lottery ‘win’ short-lived

[rooster59]

Grandma’s joy over lottery ‘win’ short-lived

By The Nation

 

Photo from Facebook/@panunjewelry

 

A Phayao woman’s joy at winning Bt30 million in a lottery was cut short when it emerged that it was a prank conducted by her 13-year-old granddaughter.

 

On Friday evening, word spread like wildfire on social networks that Luan Thananchai, a resident of Phayao’s Chiang Muan district, had five winning tickets in the September 1 draw.

 

Facebook users shared a photo of her displaying the lottery ticket with a beaming face, and the news drew a lot of relatives to Luan’s house.

Her son, Sompol Thananchai, 35, an assistant chief of Tambon Ban Bang administration also rushed back home before the end of office hours on Friday.

 

Initially, Luan would not display her lottery tickets to her son, but she showed him later that night.

 

Once Sompol saw the tickets, he asked his mother who had checked the prizes for her. Luan said Sompol’s 13-year-old daughter did after Luan promised to buy her a new smartphone and motorcycle if she won a big prize.

 

Luan said the granddaughter disappeared for a while before she returned to tell her that she’d won the first prize. Luan said she then took a photo to share in a Line group of close relatives.

 

Sompol then told his mother that the lottery had not really won the first prize, because one number had been pasted over with a number from an old ticket.

 

On hearing this, the broken woman developed high blood pressure and had to be rushed to hospital. Her condition improved and was discharged on Saturday.

 

Sompol apologised to the community, saying his daughter simply devised a prank to share among her relatives, and she did not expect it would spread so widely on social media.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30325600

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-09-03

[harada]

Former granddaughter? 

[Thaiwrath]

30 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

did not expect it would spread so widely on social media.

 

You cannot fart nowadays, without someone reporting it on social media ! 

[sceadugenga]

We used to call it a slow news day....

[KunMatt]

So she got 5 out of 6 numbers right in that lottery, and she bought the whole book (5 tickets for that one number).

 

Doesn't she win anything?

[Briggsy]

One has to wonder who is the smartest? Granny, her son, the local politician's aide or the 13-year-old? I know who my money is on. (13-year-old; motorbike )

[scorecard]

2 hours ago, Briggsy said:

One has to wonder who is the smartest? Granny, her son, the local politician's aide or the 13-year-old? I know who my money is on. (13-year-old; motorbike )

 

Just wondering how / why the local politician's aide got into picture?

[Briggsy]

19 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

Just wondering how / why the local politician's aide got into picture?

Apposition (I thought the syntax could be problematic).

[cardinalblue]

Props to the grand daughter - lying to get what she wants...

 

another example of parent rearing look bad....

 

what comes around goes around....love it....

[oldgent]

what a dirty low down thing to play on your grandmother

guess what that little madam is going to grow up like.

[Ridge]

Let her have long black hair, sweet brown eyes. Give it another few summers and we know what's gonna happen. 

Oh wait they all have...

[MyFriend You]

9 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

You cannot fart nowadays, without someone reporting it on social media ! 

Tell me about it, think I'll take a break from this forum for awhile..........

[samsensam]

 

not really a prank, but a deceit to get a new smart phone and motorbike. 13 year olds on motorcycles, it just gets better.

[ripstanley]

1 hour ago, samsensam said:

 

not really a prank, but a deceit to get a new smart phone and motorbike. 13 year olds on motorcycles, it just gets better.

If you live in any small village in Thailand you will see children as young as 10 riding motorbikes 

[Skeptic7]

10 hours ago, KunMatt said:

So she got 5 out of 6 numbers right in that lottery, and she bought the whole book (5 tickets for that one number).

 

Doesn't she win anything?

Nope...we got 5 of 6 earlier this year. Thai lotto doesn't work that way. There are specific draws that are all 6 or nothing...nada..."soon"...zilch. Was pretty exciting though when GF was watching live and called me excitedly over. Our # was 6-6-9-9-6-6 and the winner for ß200,000 was 6-6-9-9-6-9. Losing ticket. Not 1 baht for 5/6. 

[ripstanley]

14 minutes ago, Skeptic7 said:

Nope...we got 5 of 6 earlier this year. Thai lotto doesn't work that way. There are specific draws that are all 6 or nothing...nada..."soon"...zilch. Was pretty exciting though when GF was watching live and called me excitedly over. Our # was 6-6-9-9-6-6 and the winner for ß200,000 was 6-6-9-9-6-9. Losing ticket. Not 1 baht for 5/6. 

If you have a lottery ticket whose number is  1 either side of the winning number you will win 100,000 baht. 

[4MyEgo]

 

[webfact]

GLO may take legal action against a prankster who faked First Prize lottery tickets for fun

By Thai PBS Reporters

 

 

The Government Lottery Office has warned that anyone who changed the digit numbers on lottery tickets even for fun and the have the falsified tickets posted on the social media may face charges of falsifying official documents and violation of Computer Crime Act.

 

GLO spokesman Thanawat Pholvichai said that GLO legal advisors were looking into the case in which a young girl in Phayao faked six First Prize lottery tickets for Septemver 1 draw from her grandmother’s tickets which did not win any prizes. Then the fake tickets were sent through Line application to the Line group in Chiangmuan district of Phayao, including a kamnan of Tambon Muang, to claim that her grandmother won 30-million baht First Prize.

 

However, the post turned viral among netizens, prompting many people to show up at the house of the grandmother, Mrs Luan Thananchai, to offer their congratulations or to ask for loans.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/glo-may-take-legal-action-prankster-faked-first-prize-lottery-tickets-fun/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-09-04

[BEVUP]

Doesn't take long for them to come out of the wood work

[Bung]

"and the news drew a lot of relatives to Luans house" 

 

I bet! ?

[meatboy]

what a shame,all those relatives have got to cancel those new pick ups.

[Beats56]

How can people even have the gall to show up and ask for money. If I won I would take a long vacation to avoid the money suckers.