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Re: pulltab
If you tell me that a pulltab is worth $250, I'm gonna kill myself. Here and now.
If you tell me that a pulltab is worth $250, I'm gonna kill myself. Here and now.
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No, but I'm like Carl. If a pull tab is worth $250.00, I think I'll drop over too.
(blklab)
No, but I'm like Carl. If a pull tab is worth $250.00, I think I'll drop over too.
(blklab)
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I'm getting a little weak in knees already.
I'm getting a little weak in knees already.
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Re: pulltab
I hope you are not serious. I do pick them all up and of course where do they go in the trash. Made me think so I posted this. Hmmmmm. Thank god we are not her.
VFW employee charged with pull-tab fraud
Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:09 pm
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By DREW AMO
Staff Writer
WASECA — An Elysian woman has been charged with five felonies after an investigation into theft from a local club through pull-tab fraud and forgery.
Kathleen Ann Ritchison, 48, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment and a $20,000 fine if convicted.
She has been charged with one count of lawful gambling fraud — false information, one count of lawful gambling fraud — claims prize by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, and three counts of aggravated forgery.
On Oct. 11, 2007, Waseca Police Officer Larry Thornhill received a report of forgery from the VFW Sweet-Sommers Post in town.
He spoke with the gambling manager and one of the victims.
The victim told Thornhill on Oct. 3, 2007, she used $20 to buy pull-tabs and won $103.
According to the criminal complaint, anyone who wins more than $100 has to provide a driver’s license and sign a form that acknowledging receipt of the winnings.
The victim said that she provided her driver’s license, but the employee working the pull-tabs, who she identified as Ritchison, said the machine used to scan the license wasn’t working.
The victim was instead provided with a handwritten receipt.
A few days later the victim received a phone call from another VFW employee commenting on her winning $425. The victim told the employee that she had only won $103.
The employee told the victim there were five winning receipts in her name totaling $425.
The victim met with Thornhill at the VFW on Oct. 11. There she was shown the five receipts, but she said only the one for $100 was signed by her, according to the complaint.
The VFW performed an audit on its pull-tab games and learned that the games were short $3,000 in the past three months.
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The audit also showed that Ritchison was working on several of the machines that had shortages.
According to the VFW employee who performed the audits, there are two ways to validate pull-tab winners. The first, and preferred, way is to swipe the winner’s driver’s license since it prints a time stamp and date on the receipt. The other way is to give a hand written receipt, which lacks the time stamp or date on it.
The audit also showed that Ritchison gave handwritten receipts to many of the winners she claimed to have paid, according to the complaint.
On Oct. 18, 2007, Waseca Police Officer Steve Luther spoke with the VFW employee who performed the pull-tab audit. The employee said Ritchison had opened and closed a game during her shift, which he then audited due to the concerns about her pull-tab discrepancies.
The audit showed that game to be $1,900 short.
The Waseca Police Department, with help from the Minnesota Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division, installed cameras in the VFW to monitor the pull-tab area.
According to the complaint, on Nov. 14, 2007, Ritchison was seen taking pull-tabs and placing them in her back pocket on two separate occasions. She is later seen taking those tickets and validating the winners.
On Nov. 18, Luther spoke with Ritchison at the start of her shift. She said she knew that state law prohibited her from playing pull-tabs while she worked. She denied ever playing pull-tabs, putting them in her pants pocket or taking any pull-tab money, according to the complaint.
Luther then told her they had video cameras placed inside to record activity around the pull-tabs.
Luther asked Ritchison how much money she thought the VFW was missing from pull-tab gambling.
According to the complaint, Ritchison replied, “I try to pay it back,” and “It wasn’t that much.”
According to the criminal complaint, she admitted that by selling the pull-tabs, she could tell if a game would be profitable to play. She added that she couldn’t have stolen too much because she had only been doing it for a few months. She estimated that she stole around $1,000.
Luther asked Ritchison about winning receipts signed in her sister’s name. She admitted she obtained her sister’s driver’s license information and filled out winning receipts in her sister’s name, according to the complaint.
According to the criminal complaint, VFW records show 62 handwritten receipts bearing Ritchison’s forgery of her sister’s signature, totaling $6,947. Four forged signatures of the first victim totaling $322 and six from the second victim totaling $1,399 in pull-tab proceeds.
Her next court appearance will be on Oct. 14.
I hope you are not serious. I do pick them all up and of course where do they go in the trash. Made me think so I posted this. Hmmmmm. Thank god we are not her.
VFW employee charged with pull-tab fraud
Posted: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:09 pm
Email Print
By DREW AMO
Staff Writer
WASECA — An Elysian woman has been charged with five felonies after an investigation into theft from a local club through pull-tab fraud and forgery.
Kathleen Ann Ritchison, 48, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment and a $20,000 fine if convicted.
She has been charged with one count of lawful gambling fraud — false information, one count of lawful gambling fraud — claims prize by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, and three counts of aggravated forgery.
On Oct. 11, 2007, Waseca Police Officer Larry Thornhill received a report of forgery from the VFW Sweet-Sommers Post in town.
He spoke with the gambling manager and one of the victims.
The victim told Thornhill on Oct. 3, 2007, she used $20 to buy pull-tabs and won $103.
According to the criminal complaint, anyone who wins more than $100 has to provide a driver’s license and sign a form that acknowledging receipt of the winnings.
The victim said that she provided her driver’s license, but the employee working the pull-tabs, who she identified as Ritchison, said the machine used to scan the license wasn’t working.
The victim was instead provided with a handwritten receipt.
A few days later the victim received a phone call from another VFW employee commenting on her winning $425. The victim told the employee that she had only won $103.
The employee told the victim there were five winning receipts in her name totaling $425.
The victim met with Thornhill at the VFW on Oct. 11. There she was shown the five receipts, but she said only the one for $100 was signed by her, according to the complaint.
The VFW performed an audit on its pull-tab games and learned that the games were short $3,000 in the past three months.
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The audit also showed that Ritchison was working on several of the machines that had shortages.
According to the VFW employee who performed the audits, there are two ways to validate pull-tab winners. The first, and preferred, way is to swipe the winner’s driver’s license since it prints a time stamp and date on the receipt. The other way is to give a hand written receipt, which lacks the time stamp or date on it.
The audit also showed that Ritchison gave handwritten receipts to many of the winners she claimed to have paid, according to the complaint.
On Oct. 18, 2007, Waseca Police Officer Steve Luther spoke with the VFW employee who performed the pull-tab audit. The employee said Ritchison had opened and closed a game during her shift, which he then audited due to the concerns about her pull-tab discrepancies.
The audit showed that game to be $1,900 short.
The Waseca Police Department, with help from the Minnesota Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division, installed cameras in the VFW to monitor the pull-tab area.
According to the complaint, on Nov. 14, 2007, Ritchison was seen taking pull-tabs and placing them in her back pocket on two separate occasions. She is later seen taking those tickets and validating the winners.
On Nov. 18, Luther spoke with Ritchison at the start of her shift. She said she knew that state law prohibited her from playing pull-tabs while she worked. She denied ever playing pull-tabs, putting them in her pants pocket or taking any pull-tab money, according to the complaint.
Luther then told her they had video cameras placed inside to record activity around the pull-tabs.
Luther asked Ritchison how much money she thought the VFW was missing from pull-tab gambling.
According to the complaint, Ritchison replied, “I try to pay it back,” and “It wasn’t that much.”
According to the criminal complaint, she admitted that by selling the pull-tabs, she could tell if a game would be profitable to play. She added that she couldn’t have stolen too much because she had only been doing it for a few months. She estimated that she stole around $1,000.
Luther asked Ritchison about winning receipts signed in her sister’s name. She admitted she obtained her sister’s driver’s license information and filled out winning receipts in her sister’s name, according to the complaint.
According to the criminal complaint, VFW records show 62 handwritten receipts bearing Ritchison’s forgery of her sister’s signature, totaling $6,947. Four forged signatures of the first victim totaling $322 and six from the second victim totaling $1,399 in pull-tab proceeds.
Her next court appearance will be on Oct. 14.
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Coke contest
The statutes of limitation for claiming prizes has probably ran out. ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
Hopefully, not, tho!! 
Coke contest
The statutes of limitation for claiming prizes has probably ran out. Hopefully, not, tho!! 
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kdismuke1
Hope its credible congrats!
kdismuke1
Hope its credible congrats!
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thats interesting...
thats interesting...
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Re: pulltab
Hello,
I found one very simular about a year ago at the state fair grounds here. I had a post someplace here on tnet about it.........it was an old game running in the 70s if I remember correctly. I'll see if I can find my post about it, wonder if I still have it Maybe we have the matching peices?? Cheers, Shane
Hello,
I found one very simular about a year ago at the state fair grounds here. I had a post someplace here on tnet about it.........it was an old game running in the 70s if I remember correctly. I'll see if I can find my post about it, wonder if I still have it
Maybe we have the matching peices?? Cheers, Shane
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I think the article on pulltab fraud is in reference to the pull apart little cards found at bingo parlors, not the ones we so love to dig.
I think the article on pulltab fraud is in reference to the pull apart little cards found at bingo parlors, not the ones we so love to dig.
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Re: COIN. THE LAST I POSTED IT I GOT A SMART REMARK.
Way to go on half the pot, apparently the 250.00 left half was easy to get. Now all ya need to do is find the right half......NGE (T)
Way to go on half the pot, apparently the 250.00 left half was easy to get. Now all ya need to do is find the right half......NGE (T)
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Re: COIN. THE LAST I POSTED IT I GOT A SMART REMARK.
Darn, wonder what kind of a can that came off of? I have dug a million of those
darn things, never thought about looking at them.
Neat find!
HH, Ringfinder
Darn, wonder what kind of a can that came off of? I have dug a million of those
darn things, never thought about looking at them.
Neat find!
HH, Ringfinder
Re: COIN. THE LAST I POSTED IT I GOT A SMART REMARK.
the Left half probably got Saturated throught the Country.
then they Probably sent 10 Right Halfs to Korea or China
COOL FIND !
the Left half probably got Saturated throught the Country.
then they Probably sent 10 Right Halfs to Korea or China
COOL FIND !
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Smart remark? Here? On TNET!? NAAAHHHH.... 
That is cool - it's in perfect condition too. Score!
Bob
That is cool - it's in perfect condition too. Score!
Bob
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