Would you trust anyone THAT much???

Lets say you buy several lottery tickets to your States lottery. Or you have bought tickets where several States lotteries are grouped together in a Mega lottery jackpot. The jackpot is at a whopping 200 million dollars. (it has happened many times) Now lets say when buying these tickets you went in with a bunch of friends from work, to increase your chances of winning.  First, who gets to hold the tickets before the actual drawing? If that ticket actually won, WHO would you trust enough to hold it till you could get to the lottery office?  Secondly, if you find YOURSELF holding the WINNING ticket, would you trust yourself to share the jackpot?  Do you trust yourself to share with your co-workers? That kind of money makes people do all sorts of things they would normally not do. Do you trust your co-workers or ANYONE that much? More importantly, do you trust yourself that much?  Looking for some interesting replies.                  All in Fun...PMM2008                                   

When I use to work (long time ago...now I am just a lowly stay at home Mom...haha), We had an office pool lottery just like you are describing. To alleviate any problems of the nature that you are describing, everyone who was in on the pool got a photocopy of the tickets for that week and written on those photocopies was the name of the person holding the tickets for the week. We also drew up a letter in the very beginning stating the terms of the lottery and how we all were entitled to an equal share of any pot won. We all signed it, had it notorized and everyone got a copy of that also so that if something like a big win happenned it would be very hard for whoever held the ticket to put claim to the entire jackpot. You have to protect yourself in situations like this because when there is a significant amount of money involved, everyone goes just a litle bit insane! MONEY MAKES PEOPLE DO CRAZY THINGS!!!!!!!! Never won though.....I am still poor  :'(

Tracey G