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He won $125K at the Calgary Stampede but his ticket expired · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: A Calgary man is fighting back after a one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five thousand dollars winning fifty to fifty draw
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  Speaker 1: ticket that he purchased was declared worthless.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Geiger learned earlier this.
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  Speaker 1: Week that a ticket that he bought at the Calgary
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  Speaker 1: Stampede back in July was actually a winner. Now, he
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  Speaker 1: immediately emailed the organization, but he didn't get the response
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  Speaker 1: that he was looking for.
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  Speaker 2: The email said his forty eight hour window to claim
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  Speaker 2: that prize had expired.
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  Speaker 1: In a statement to CBC News, the Calgary Stampede acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: the disappointing situation, but said the forty eight hour claim
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  Speaker 1: period was outlined in a publicly available rules. Geiger says
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  Speaker 1: that he isn't satisfied with that response, and he's looking
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  Speaker 1: to pursue legal recourse. So now we're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: from the man himself. I want to bring in Curtis Geiger,
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  Speaker 1: that winner of the one hundred and twenty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars ticket that you can't be claimed, joining us from Calgary, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for your time. Hi, Sarah. Okay, so you found
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  Speaker 1: out on Monday that this was actually a winning ticket
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  Speaker 1: when did you buy this ticket?
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  Speaker 2: The Stampede's been over for a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit now, Yeah, I've bought the ticket on July eleventh
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  Speaker 3: in the afternoon. I was there with some friends from
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  Speaker 3: out of town. Purchased the ticket at the rodeo. The
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  Speaker 3: following day, I was on a trip to Greece that
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  Speaker 3: I've been planning for quite some time. It's a trip
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  Speaker 3: that I've been always wanting to go on. And I
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  Speaker 3: went to Greece for a few weeks, and when I
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  Speaker 3: came back, I was at work. And this week on Monday,
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  Speaker 3: I was going through some expense accounts for my work
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  Speaker 3: and I had my ticket in my wallet and I
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  Speaker 3: pulled it out and I scanned a QR code and
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  Speaker 3: it took me to the site and that's where I
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  Speaker 3: scrolled down. I looked at the process to claim, the
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  Speaker 3: process claim, how to go through it all. And I
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  Speaker 3: scrolled down and I looked at the July eleventh draw,
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  Speaker 3: and I was looking at the numbers and I compared
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  Speaker 3: it to my ticket and loan behold, the numbers match.
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  Speaker 3: So I was pretty excited.
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  Speaker 4: So I couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I brought in a couple. I brought in a
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  Speaker 3: couple co workers to verify that for me.
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  Speaker 1: So can you talk to me about that moment went
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  Speaker 1: through and through your mind when you thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you were one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars richer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I've never really want anything
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  Speaker 3: that baked before. I've played the lotteries many times over
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  Speaker 3: the years and never come close. So it was the
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  Speaker 3: high that I had. The uh, it was it was
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  Speaker 3: going back to like when my kids were born. So
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  Speaker 3: that experience and that over joy was it was, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to put into words until you actually have
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  Speaker 3: have it happened to you?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now I got to ask you about the low
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  Speaker 1: when you realized or you were told that the window
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  Speaker 1: to claim that prize was only well two days forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours, and of course you'd been in Greece, you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have made that claim and you hadn't checked before
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  Speaker 1: you got on that plane.
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  Speaker 2: What went through your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was It's the ultimate low that you can have, right,
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  Speaker 3: So you know. I sent the email off in the
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  Speaker 3: afternoon and by the time I got home later on
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  Speaker 3: after five o'clock, I received the disappointing email back from
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  Speaker 3: the gentleman from the Stampede.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, it's your heart drops. It's it's hard to
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  Speaker 4: put into words until it actually happens to you, but
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  Speaker 4: that that ultimate low is I couldn't sleep for the
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  Speaker 4: last couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: I think last night was the first time actually got
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  Speaker 3: to sleep a little bit, because it's it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: weighing on your mind, a lot of things going through
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  Speaker 3: your head.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, there's
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  Speaker 1: probably a lot of you were here thinking, oh, what
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  Speaker 1: would I do with that money? And I'm guessing in
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  Speaker 1: the time that you thought that you you had that money,
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  Speaker 1: you were thinking a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: What would you have spent it on?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you try, you try not to think through that
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  Speaker 3: because it's sometimes it's too good to be true. But
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  Speaker 3: I've just moved to Calgary a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 3: and I'm still renting, and I was looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: buying a home at the end of the year or
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  Speaker 3: early next year, and I thought this would be a
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  Speaker 3: great down payment for the house. I'm sure my financial
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  Speaker 3: person would also like me to benefit by putting it
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  Speaker 3: into my bench, but then I also have kids and
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  Speaker 3: an eighty five year old mom that I really wanted
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  Speaker 3: to take on a trip.
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  Speaker 2: Curtisis was a fifty to fifty draw.
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  Speaker 1: So the pot, you know, half of it goes to
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Stampede, you know, a nonprofit and the
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  Speaker 1: other half goes to the winner. So I'm assuming at
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  Speaker 1: the moment the one percent of it has gone to
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  Speaker 1: that nonprofit.
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  Speaker 2: Do things are you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you leaving things as they are or what's your
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  Speaker 1: plan moving forward here?
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  Speaker 3: No, So I've I retained a lawyer this morning, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm with the Baker Law Firm, and Roger's gone through
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  Speaker 3: all the situations and explained to me that we have
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  Speaker 3: a very good case. So we decided I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: move forward.
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  Speaker 2: And what is that case?
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  Speaker 1: The fact that it said you may claim within forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to get into some of the details
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  Speaker 3: because I it's I'm not allowed to really speak on
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  Speaker 3: everything from there, but basically, the ambiguity of everything that's
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  Speaker 3: on there. The ticket itself mentions nothing on one you
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  Speaker 3: need to claim it, so foll of those combined together
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  Speaker 3: is very confusing, I think for the consumer, the buyer,
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  Speaker 3: the ticket.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Curtis, Well, there's a lot of people who play
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  Speaker 1: the lottery. You're going to be following your story very closely.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Geiger, thank you for your time and good luck.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me on your program.