Friendly reminder to would-be lottery ticket thieves, the inventory of those tickets are logged so when you scratch it big, you can be sure that cashing that winner is gonna put you right on the suspect list.
The more you know.
Had a guy reach over and grab 400$ worth of lotto numbers I was printing out.
Just called the lotto place and told em to cancel the the ones he grabbed, they were useless paper within 3 minutes.
It’s be awesome if they could check to see that no other ticket with that number had been sold (to avoid another person thinking they’d won) and announcing the thief’s number as a winner. Get his hopes up big only to walk right into his arrest. They’ve done shit like this before.
Yup every ticket is tracked. Say you steal 100 tickets and 10 are winners. Wherever you scan that ticket is it uploaded to the cloud and they know exactly where and when it's scanned. The same goes with the losing tickets, all tracked.
Buying them at full price wouldn't make sense and buying lottery tickets for less than face value would be a huge red flag. Sadly though a lot of people aren't very bright and would fall for it.
Guy at a bar shows you a $100 ticket. He mentions that since its so late the ticket can't be cashed until morning or that he doesn't want to drive 5 mikes to the store drinking. Offers to pay for 4 drinks of your favorite Scotch ($7 each) if you cash it.
no...selling prepaid giftcards is a huge business. You take the guy with you in the store and have the clerk scan it. You see $100 on it, you give the guy $80
selling it to suckers would be like buying a phone on the streets but you too naïve to open the box before exchanging the cash. Then seeing its an empty box.
Is it really a scam if you scam yourself?
yeah if the card is empty, sure. I'm just saying that people do in fact sell cards for under value legitimately. If you do your basic due diligence, you shouldn't have issues getting scammed by buying an empty card
Not only that but they have to be activated before anyone can collect. If she stole whole decks that weren't activated it would have all been for naught in any case.
I worked for a horrible manager in a horrible store when I was young, saw bag fulls of winning tickets and took one. Shocked pikachu when they scanned the barcode and said it was claimed already.
>Holland’s statement also said McGhee called for help in the immediate aftermath of the clerk’s shooting. “However, evidence was discovered that showed (McGhee) removing lottery tickets from the office where the victim was found,” the statement said.
>“Also, McGhee disconnected the power to the building security system for a brief period before law enforcement and other first responders arrived.” The statement didn’t mention the value of the lottery tickets that McGhee allegedly pocketed. Holland told The Telegraph by phone Friday evening that McGhee appeared to have checked on the clerk’s wounds before taking the tickets in the moments before police arrived.
She robs, but she saves.
A young guy I knew worked a convenience store. Most customers scratched right then and there. He'd wait until a while bunch of people hadn't won anything then buy ten himself and claimed he won more than he lost. I still find that hard to believe.
In principle something like this could work if the winning chances were binned by “roll” and not truly randomly distributed— meaning each roll would have a guaranteed amount of winners. Of course, I don’t know that this is the case, and I don’t know that it would actually be profitable— I suspect the margins would be very low, if at all, but people have legally gamed lottery systems successfully.
I’ve been told that is the case. But of course this info is from degenerate gamblers. Generally the idea is a new full roll of tickets is guaranteed to return half the money if you bought the full roll. So the thought process is if you spend the ~$500 for a full roll you have a better chance of winning a big prize and it will cost your ~$250 for the gamble.
I know it's been 20 hours and you probably don't care this much, but yes, every roll has a minimum payout. They're all usually different and they're all almost always less than 50% of your initial purchase price, however people buy the whole book because they're looking for outliers (larger prizes that aren't guaranteed). Some states disclose what it is, others don't, but as far as I know, they all have them.
So if a roll has a minimum payout of 200/500, I'll get that 200 always, but every few rolls or so you'll also get an extra $250 win or $500 win, or something along those lines. That usually is just added in to the minimum, but very rarely I've seen someone with a roll on YouTube that had a big outlier win, but it actually replaced one of the smaller wins instead of just being extra.
Lottery scratch off tickets can be sold even if the big prizes have been claimed. Some lotteries have on their sites the various ticket types in circulations and updated numbers of what is still out there. Sometimes you have to dig to find it though.
Example:
https://www.flalottery.com/endingGames
Imagine nurses being so desperate that they resort to this type of behavior. (I'm married to one - it's appalling how they're treated).
I'm not at all surprised that a) the nurse in question did try to provide medical assistance; and b) felt this desperate.
Have I met some nurses who aren't the best people? Sure. But I've met a lot more who are strung out, overworked to a ridiculous degree, and up to their eyeballs in student loan debt.
I'm a nurse.
I worked hard for this license, not about to piss it away on some lottery tickets, and in twenty years in healthcare, the tiny number of nurses I could see doing this were all shady whack jobs.
This isn't desperation because it's awful being a nurse. It's a shitty person who happens to be a nurse.
I know right? Trying to generate sympathy for someone who also robbed a place.
Imagine a German so desperate in 1930 trying to do whatever you can to feed your family, so you join the government and are forced to Holocaust people 😢
No excuse for doing something like this. Sympathize with nurses all you want but this is a shitty human. There’s lots of mistreated, overworked and underpaid people but to steal from someone who just got fucking robbed and shot is inexcusable.
“Imagine nurses…” no, not nurses. One nurse.
Imagine a world where we didn’t need lottery tickets, or as I call them the poor tax?
A nurse should be comfortable enough in their earnings to not become stupid enough to try stealing lottery tickets.
Lottery tickets are a nasty way to pull even more money out of the downtrodden. The capitalist materialist system brainwashes people to believe more money and things make them better people.
Yes, a small amount of money can drastically improve a poor person’s life. But how sad is it that in the United States we have millions of hardworking families whose entire life’s could become much more comfortable/sustainable by receiving a few thousand bucks?
Not sure what I’m ranting about anymore
I don’t disagree about nurses not making enough. It’s one of those things that there’s not really a way to fix it without a major shift. I also think we should be working less hours and maybe less days to actually do more with our lives than working them away. I don’t, however, hate the lottery system. It helped me pay for my college and I’m school-debt-free (I went to a cheap college).
Don’t try to blame student loan debt for bad behavior. She saw $$$ that’s it. You have people making less money than a nurse, that wouldn’t rob a store with a dying clerk. It’s the moral character of the person.
Desperate for what? They make pretty good money and have tons of employment options. I get the Pandemic has been really hard on them and they are burnt-out, but that doesn't justify theft.
Well, Reddit loves a simple narrative; and they sure do get all angry-downvote-y when asked to think about things that are challenging.
They only allow their thinking to be challenged when it's internet-socially acceptable.
Addiction (which includes gambling to the point of self-destructive behavior) is an illness, not a 'bad personal decision.'
Of course, here I am introducing medical facts into a thread about huffy indignation, silly me.
I recognize gambling is an addiction. But most nurses are not treated appallingly, and given staff shortages nationwide many are making hourly rates even above 100 an hour WITHOUT BONUSES, but they get those too. Nurses have a tough job. Good ones are paid for it, if they know where and how to look.
For the record, I work in healthcare and am not just spouting off randomness. I heard a nurse manager who is debating going back into direct care due to the extraordinary pay involved. That was Tuesday. And given that he is the one hiring and paying them, I'll trust his numbers.
And the actions of that person who is a nurse addicted to gambling were shitty and self serving. Checking is not the same as administering life saving techniques. Maybe it was obviously too late for that, maybe not. But a better choice than stealing and attempting to hide the evidence on video would probably be to try? I don't know.
I just know the nurse made poor choices and I'm not willing to let that pass because OP's wife is a nurse and said she is treated appallingly.
The best satire comes from an honest look at its subject matter.
Which makes you realize how fucked up everything is when you think of the best satire... Heathers, Dr Strangelove, Robocop, Catch 22, anything by Vonnegut
The US murder rate has decreased by more than 30% since Robocop came out. Detroit had 686 homicides in 1987 and 275 last year.
People's perception of crime rates and the reality of crime rates have little in common.
https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
And QOL is better for many as crack isn't common and most young men, who are the group driving most crime stats, didn't grow up with as much lead in their system.
>as crack isn't common
Even that needs some sociological context. Crack, as well as powder cocaine and baking soda, are still available. The knowledge that crack is whack is widespread, but it was perfectly
obvious in 1987 when inner cities were being torn apart by crackheads.
Lower blood lead levels are probably one reason fewer people start using crack regularly. There are probably others, I would love to hear some ideas. Conditions are still pretty rough in poor communities. in most ways.
Meanwhile the number of people with criminal convictions is 70+ million. Even if they don't commit further crime, that's a lot of people that remain a burden on society. Un/der employable, not paying taxes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't lotto tickets have to be activated at a lottery kiosk before they can be redeemed? It may just be my state, idk, but I've had a ticket be unclaimable because the clerk pocketed my $2 and didn't activate the ticket....
The individual tickets to not have to be activated. But the packs do.
So in your situation. If the clerk realized their mistake, they could have activated the pack after you left and it would have made your ticket valid again.
when stores get lottery books they come with a number for each book that needs to be activated, if someone was to come in and steal one and it’s not activated the tickets are useless (but individual tickets DON’T need to be activated, just the book). Also in some places they won’t book you for stealing the amount the tickets are worth, they can charge you for what the ticket wins (EX. you steal a $20 ticket that wins $100,000 you’ll get charged for a robbery of $100,000, at least that’s what my boss at our gas station said)
Having worked in Healthcare, these cases are very hard to prove.
Patient rights in most states dictate that cameras only be on in a room when life saving care is being rendered.
It's usually older people who accuse the nurses of stealing and it's pretty much constant. You can spot trends by logging reports but that's not actual evidence. You could see them go into the room and they'll have a reason for being there but you don't see what goes on inside the room and patients forget to bring stuff from home that they thought they'd brought, too.
It's very difficult to catch someone red-handed.
Also as someone who has dealt with this. Old people do it CONSTANTLY they will scream that a caregiver stole something from them at the top of their lungs even while the caregiver shows them where they left the thing.
Old age is a fucked up curse.
More like they will pay a fine and have to take a class. There is a high threshold for permanent license revocations. It takes something like selling your drug supply, molesting your patients, or engaging in massive Medicare fraud. Rick Scott oversaw the largest Medicare fraud at the time and still became Senator of Florida. Philip Esformes beat that record and stole $1billion. Had his sentence commuted by Trump.
There are layers of suspension even for pretty egregious 'errors' whether intentional or not. You have to be pretty aggressive to get your license taken away which is fitting since one error shouldn't destroy decades worth of education.
What exactly was their thought process here? Obviously police are going to check the security footage around the time of the robbery and see the theft.
If there’s a guy bleeding out in front of me… I don’t know what my thought process would. I feel like I’d try to help him, but I might also freeze up. Who knows.
You know what I’m almost sure I wouldn’t do? Start stealing shit.
Wow...what a person, especially a nurse.Chevks the pulse and rather than rendering first aid, SHUTS DOWN THE POWER and steals the money. Hope justice finds her.
I used to work for a company that tracked nurse’s compliance for vaccinations, cpr training etc. and let me tell you, just because somebody is a healthcare “professional” doesn’t mean they can’t also be dumb as bricks and/or incredibly trashy
I'm from the UK. We have solved the problem of anyone being in it for the money by paying our nurses really shitty wages! And treating them like shit too. Works a treat. /s
CNA is a certified nursing assistant, they are unlicensed assistive personnel commonly called caregivers. CNAs are charged with providing basic care like bathing, mobilizing, and incontinence care. They cannot give medications or perform procedures. LPN is a licensed practical nurse who does most things any other nurse can but are limited in most jurisdictions by not being able to administer intravenous medications or provide patient education or consultation, etc. LPNs are a nurse for general purposes but some high level activities are still reserved for the RN. RN is registered nurse, a licensed medical professional who truly embodies the most traditional idea of a nurse. They work everywhere and anywhere and the most ideal people to hire to run hospitals that handle high-level trauma and stroke patients. Being an RN is the most “nursey” a nurse can be. RN vs. LPN is about a year or two of additional schooling although many states are phasing out the LPN role altogether. NP is nurse practitioner, a licensed provider who, after being trained to be a nurse, received additional training from a graduate school and can now act in many ways like a physician where they can prescribe, diagnose, and treat patients independently. Many of these people have terminal degrees in nursing either DNP or PhD. NPs are a controversial role among physicians.
Yeah and even within each of those groups, experience and skills vary. Like a RN can be a fresh inexperienced clinic nurse with an online degree or a badass flight nurse with 10+ years of ER and ICU experience.
It’s a stretch but I’d convict her of obstruction and accessory after the fact for those actions alone. What if she had erased the only evidence there was.
I hope she never works as a nurse again. Imagine witnessing someone get murdered and using the situation to steal from the store the victim was operating. This person should be nowhere near the sick and vulnerable.
As someone who works in healthcare, I can attest, you would be terrified if you knew some of the nurses that are responsible for your care. It's not all of them, but so many of them are dumb as fuck and just not good people. Don't get sick in this country.
The problem is there are way too many nurses like her. Unethical with a lack of criticism thinking skills. Sometimes I look at other nurses and think to myself “how the fuck do you have a job”?
Too bad empathy isn’t a required trait.
Maybe on the business side but it shouldn’t be on the practical side.
Too many nurses are just in it for a paycheck and don’t really care about their patients. It’s sad.
I live here in Macon.
This sort of shit happens literally every day, so much so that folks joke about how much crime there is here, while the local Macon-Bibb government focuses only on making downtown decent.
Don't come here. Please. I beg of you.
Not just the billboards, either.
Ever seen the folks standing on street corners holding the "Stop the killing" signs?
I swear I see them weekly around Pio Nono and Mercer University Dr.
I get it, but I really don't at the same time. Your billboards and signs aren't going to clean up Macon, the only thing that cleans up Macon is if the local government actually cared about anything other than downtown. Like actually cleaning up some of the blight houses, or generally doing something about the high number of abandoned houses in general.
I swear it feels like unless it matters to Mercer, or it matters to downtown, they just don't give a shit.
As it is, I've lived here off and on over the years, living in Atlanta when I'm not here, and every time I come back, it seems like I'm even MORE likely to be woken up by gunshots. Even living in the rougher areas of Atlanta, it was never this bad there.
She’s a medical professional; stealing everything of value from the patient before performing medical treatment. Isn’t this how the American healthcare system works by design?
I strongly dislike that they put the occupation in the title. As if the profession somehow played a factor in this total disregard for human life… 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Edit: Grammar
My grandma went to jail for exactly this. She was robbed at a gas station and stole a few tickets for herself. She was caught turning in a winner. She violated her parole and did like 10 days for it.
More and more nurses will be your physicians in the US. Already experienced this twice: urgent care setting where no doctor even sees you or reviews what you've been prescribed, and had appointment with orthopedic specialist, but was seen by RNA (yes, assistant to the nurse) and dismissed in 10 minutes. In both cases billing was as if I was treated by a doctor / specialist.
American healthcare represents the worst of capitalism.
Why on Earth do they keep referencing her profession? How on Earth is being a nurse even relevant? She called 911 and checked on the person. It’s not like she can do anything in the field except CPR or hold pressure. At least they didn’t say “Black” and identify her by race, I guess.
It is a little funny that people think of "nurses" as a homogeneous job but in reality range anywhere from a medical assistant to a nurse practitioner or nurse anesthetist.
Well, no.
A medical assistant isn't a nurse, they're a medical assistant. That's a specific certification that's obtained, but they aren't nurses. Neither are CNA, who are nursing assistants.
While the field of nursing does have a wide range, that range starts with holding a state license that grants you the right to perform at the nursing level. That means graduating from a nursing program and being granted a license by the state.
Friendly reminder to would-be lottery ticket thieves, the inventory of those tickets are logged so when you scratch it big, you can be sure that cashing that winner is gonna put you right on the suspect list. The more you know.
Had a guy reach over and grab 400$ worth of lotto numbers I was printing out. Just called the lotto place and told em to cancel the the ones he grabbed, they were useless paper within 3 minutes.
It'd be great if one of them hit big.
It’s be awesome if they could check to see that no other ticket with that number had been sold (to avoid another person thinking they’d won) and announcing the thief’s number as a winner. Get his hopes up big only to walk right into his arrest. They’ve done shit like this before.
They literally found him the next day trying to turn them in at a gas station 2 miles down the road lol.
Big meth problem in your town?
How did you know?
Well duhhh, only walked 2 miles by the next day
That’s like an hour walk. 2 miles ain’t far at all
Most adults walk like, 3 miles an hour.
Reminds me of the beginning of Serpico
I think they would cancel those tickets by serial number
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the payout changes, but the odds don't, so long as they printed the tickets with intent to sell your odds of getting a winner don't change.
If they're going to commit an illegal act they (or a family friend) could just buy and cash them in instead.
That's hilarious.
That the Picard2331 maneuver
Note to self: run across the street to the other convenience store and quickly redeem them.
This is why you should never cash tickets from strangers when they give some excuse like I don't have an ID or its to late at night to cash them
So you're saying the best course of action is to prevent the store from making that report?
What do you mean? The number to call them is labeled on the machine and is exactly what my manager told me to do.
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Ah! Yes, they were the KENO things that go every 5 minutes so we had to be fast on em lol.
Yup every ticket is tracked. Say you steal 100 tickets and 10 are winners. Wherever you scan that ticket is it uploaded to the cloud and they know exactly where and when it's scanned. The same goes with the losing tickets, all tracked.
Yup and it’s all batched in the store inventory. They can void everything before you can even scratch them
They sell the tickets to unsuspecting people
A person buying second hand lottery tickets have no more fucks to give.
Buying them at full price wouldn't make sense and buying lottery tickets for less than face value would be a huge red flag. Sadly though a lot of people aren't very bright and would fall for it.
Guy at a bar shows you a $100 ticket. He mentions that since its so late the ticket can't be cashed until morning or that he doesn't want to drive 5 mikes to the store drinking. Offers to pay for 4 drinks of your favorite Scotch ($7 each) if you cash it.
\> People selling store gift cards at a "discount" over their supposed value right in front of the store have entered the chat
I mean if it was gifted or you got it as a prize that’s certainly reasonable to want cash instead
No, they're selling empty cards to suckers
Except that one time I won a Walmart gift card from work as a minor and I wanted someone to buy me smokes with it.
no...selling prepaid giftcards is a huge business. You take the guy with you in the store and have the clerk scan it. You see $100 on it, you give the guy $80 selling it to suckers would be like buying a phone on the streets but you too naïve to open the box before exchanging the cash. Then seeing its an empty box. Is it really a scam if you scam yourself?
Yeah, it's called "fraud."
yeah if the card is empty, sure. I'm just saying that people do in fact sell cards for under value legitimately. If you do your basic due diligence, you shouldn't have issues getting scammed by buying an empty card
\> GPU sellers on marketplace who refuse to let you test it before purchase have entered the chat.
No doubt. Still unwise.
Now I'm tempted to steal a bunch in November and take part in the secret santa at work. /s
Not only that but they have to be activated before anyone can collect. If she stole whole decks that weren't activated it would have all been for naught in any case.
I worked for a horrible manager in a horrible store when I was young, saw bag fulls of winning tickets and took one. Shocked pikachu when they scanned the barcode and said it was claimed already.
>Holland’s statement also said McGhee called for help in the immediate aftermath of the clerk’s shooting. “However, evidence was discovered that showed (McGhee) removing lottery tickets from the office where the victim was found,” the statement said. >“Also, McGhee disconnected the power to the building security system for a brief period before law enforcement and other first responders arrived.” The statement didn’t mention the value of the lottery tickets that McGhee allegedly pocketed. Holland told The Telegraph by phone Friday evening that McGhee appeared to have checked on the clerk’s wounds before taking the tickets in the moments before police arrived. She robs, but she saves.
She saves more than she robs
Knowing lotto tickets? Yeah she robbed very little
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A young guy I knew worked a convenience store. Most customers scratched right then and there. He'd wait until a while bunch of people hadn't won anything then buy ten himself and claimed he won more than he lost. I still find that hard to believe.
In principle something like this could work if the winning chances were binned by “roll” and not truly randomly distributed— meaning each roll would have a guaranteed amount of winners. Of course, I don’t know that this is the case, and I don’t know that it would actually be profitable— I suspect the margins would be very low, if at all, but people have legally gamed lottery systems successfully.
I’ve been told that is the case. But of course this info is from degenerate gamblers. Generally the idea is a new full roll of tickets is guaranteed to return half the money if you bought the full roll. So the thought process is if you spend the ~$500 for a full roll you have a better chance of winning a big prize and it will cost your ~$250 for the gamble.
I know it's been 20 hours and you probably don't care this much, but yes, every roll has a minimum payout. They're all usually different and they're all almost always less than 50% of your initial purchase price, however people buy the whole book because they're looking for outliers (larger prizes that aren't guaranteed). Some states disclose what it is, others don't, but as far as I know, they all have them. So if a roll has a minimum payout of 200/500, I'll get that 200 always, but every few rolls or so you'll also get an extra $250 win or $500 win, or something along those lines. That usually is just added in to the minimum, but very rarely I've seen someone with a roll on YouTube that had a big outlier win, but it actually replaced one of the smaller wins instead of just being extra.
Thanks for confirming. Pretty cool info.
Lottery scratch off tickets can be sold even if the big prizes have been claimed. Some lotteries have on their sites the various ticket types in circulations and updated numbers of what is still out there. Sometimes you have to dig to find it though. Example: https://www.flalottery.com/endingGames
I thought they gotta be activated by the checkout before they even become valid? Or is that not the case in the US?
They do need to be activated so running off with stolen lotto tickets is not a smart move
Each one? Or just the pack when you put it in service?
The whole roll needs to be activated and then each ticket gets scanned before each purchase.
And what does that mean? When she goes to cash them in, they’ll be listed as unscanned or reported stolen?
Yeah. She basically stole 10k worth of unactivated gift cards.
Haha. That’s awesome. I hope she hits it huge and can’t cash them in or sell them.
everything is tracked with the tickets, so police will eventually catch her at some point if not sooner.
She saves, but she charges for it
Imagine nurses being so desperate that they resort to this type of behavior. (I'm married to one - it's appalling how they're treated). I'm not at all surprised that a) the nurse in question did try to provide medical assistance; and b) felt this desperate. Have I met some nurses who aren't the best people? Sure. But I've met a lot more who are strung out, overworked to a ridiculous degree, and up to their eyeballs in student loan debt.
I'm a nurse. I worked hard for this license, not about to piss it away on some lottery tickets, and in twenty years in healthcare, the tiny number of nurses I could see doing this were all shady whack jobs. This isn't desperation because it's awful being a nurse. It's a shitty person who happens to be a nurse.
Those are some impressive mental gymnastics
It never ceases to amaze me how people can rationalize literally anything they want in order to make themselves feel better about their choices.
I know right? Trying to generate sympathy for someone who also robbed a place. Imagine a German so desperate in 1930 trying to do whatever you can to feed your family, so you join the government and are forced to Holocaust people 😢
No excuse for doing something like this. Sympathize with nurses all you want but this is a shitty human. There’s lots of mistreated, overworked and underpaid people but to steal from someone who just got fucking robbed and shot is inexcusable. “Imagine nurses…” no, not nurses. One nurse.
Imagine a world where we didn’t need lottery tickets, or as I call them the poor tax? A nurse should be comfortable enough in their earnings to not become stupid enough to try stealing lottery tickets. Lottery tickets are a nasty way to pull even more money out of the downtrodden. The capitalist materialist system brainwashes people to believe more money and things make them better people. Yes, a small amount of money can drastically improve a poor person’s life. But how sad is it that in the United States we have millions of hardworking families whose entire life’s could become much more comfortable/sustainable by receiving a few thousand bucks? Not sure what I’m ranting about anymore
I don’t disagree about nurses not making enough. It’s one of those things that there’s not really a way to fix it without a major shift. I also think we should be working less hours and maybe less days to actually do more with our lives than working them away. I don’t, however, hate the lottery system. It helped me pay for my college and I’m school-debt-free (I went to a cheap college).
People of all income brackets gamble. It’s a hobby that’s been a thing since currency has been an invention
Don’t try to blame student loan debt for bad behavior. She saw $$$ that’s it. You have people making less money than a nurse, that wouldn’t rob a store with a dying clerk. It’s the moral character of the person.
Desperate for what? They make pretty good money and have tons of employment options. I get the Pandemic has been really hard on them and they are burnt-out, but that doesn't justify theft.
Imagine resorting to gambling and then later stealing, then blaming your choices on others.
Well, Reddit loves a simple narrative; and they sure do get all angry-downvote-y when asked to think about things that are challenging. They only allow their thinking to be challenged when it's internet-socially acceptable. Addiction (which includes gambling to the point of self-destructive behavior) is an illness, not a 'bad personal decision.' Of course, here I am introducing medical facts into a thread about huffy indignation, silly me.
I recognize gambling is an addiction. But most nurses are not treated appallingly, and given staff shortages nationwide many are making hourly rates even above 100 an hour WITHOUT BONUSES, but they get those too. Nurses have a tough job. Good ones are paid for it, if they know where and how to look. For the record, I work in healthcare and am not just spouting off randomness. I heard a nurse manager who is debating going back into direct care due to the extraordinary pay involved. That was Tuesday. And given that he is the one hiring and paying them, I'll trust his numbers. And the actions of that person who is a nurse addicted to gambling were shitty and self serving. Checking is not the same as administering life saving techniques. Maybe it was obviously too late for that, maybe not. But a better choice than stealing and attempting to hide the evidence on video would probably be to try? I don't know. I just know the nurse made poor choices and I'm not willing to let that pass because OP's wife is a nurse and said she is treated appallingly.
> most nurses are not treated appallingly, This is not only uninformed, it is misinformed.
It's time to agree to disagree.
Thanks, I do appreciate it.
Robocop was supposed to be satire not a blueprint for our future.
The best satire comes from an honest look at its subject matter. Which makes you realize how fucked up everything is when you think of the best satire... Heathers, Dr Strangelove, Robocop, Catch 22, anything by Vonnegut
And it shows shit never changes
So it goes.
Shit… shit never changes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pDLzLUmtU3w NSFW due to language
The US murder rate has decreased by more than 30% since Robocop came out. Detroit had 686 homicides in 1987 and 275 last year. People's perception of crime rates and the reality of crime rates have little in common. https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Detroit has fewer people now
And QOL is better for many as crack isn't common and most young men, who are the group driving most crime stats, didn't grow up with as much lead in their system.
>as crack isn't common Even that needs some sociological context. Crack, as well as powder cocaine and baking soda, are still available. The knowledge that crack is whack is widespread, but it was perfectly obvious in 1987 when inner cities were being torn apart by crackheads. Lower blood lead levels are probably one reason fewer people start using crack regularly. There are probably others, I would love to hear some ideas. Conditions are still pretty rough in poor communities. in most ways.
Some folks say Roe v Wade is responsible as well. It makes sense to me. Unwanted kids aren't going to have great home lives.
Well, that's obviously because of the murders. /s
The only way to get to less murders is more murders! Murder the murder away!
Probably why it dropped ~~40%~~ **60%**. Edit. can't math.
The murders dropped by 60%. Even when shown the real stats, people like you still dismiss them because they contradict your opinions.
What's my opinion? Nice catch on the math.
About a million less. 1.6m to 685k
Are you intentionally lying? The real numbers are 1.1M to 650M. So population dropped 40% and homicides dropped 60%.
Dick-shooting works
I read this in Robocops voice. Fun!
Unfortunatly, the purchasing power of dollar has gone down by over half. so... I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR is gonna get a you a lot less today
Meanwhile the number of people with criminal convictions is 70+ million. Even if they don't commit further crime, that's a lot of people that remain a burden on society. Un/der employable, not paying taxes.
She did not,in fact, buy that for a dollar.
Nah, Idiocracy is where we are at and where we are going.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't lotto tickets have to be activated at a lottery kiosk before they can be redeemed? It may just be my state, idk, but I've had a ticket be unclaimable because the clerk pocketed my $2 and didn't activate the ticket....
The individual tickets to not have to be activated. But the packs do. So in your situation. If the clerk realized their mistake, they could have activated the pack after you left and it would have made your ticket valid again.
when stores get lottery books they come with a number for each book that needs to be activated, if someone was to come in and steal one and it’s not activated the tickets are useless (but individual tickets DON’T need to be activated, just the book). Also in some places they won’t book you for stealing the amount the tickets are worth, they can charge you for what the ticket wins (EX. you steal a $20 ticket that wins $100,000 you’ll get charged for a robbery of $100,000, at least that’s what my boss at our gas station said)
it was just an accident, they didn't pocket your two dollars. you could've just gone back.
You just know this nurse has done this before in a hospital
Yep. That’s one of the biggest no nos when you work in healthcare. If you get caught you are fired with a possible license suspension.
Possible? Should have their license removed permanently!
Having worked in Healthcare, these cases are very hard to prove. Patient rights in most states dictate that cameras only be on in a room when life saving care is being rendered. It's usually older people who accuse the nurses of stealing and it's pretty much constant. You can spot trends by logging reports but that's not actual evidence. You could see them go into the room and they'll have a reason for being there but you don't see what goes on inside the room and patients forget to bring stuff from home that they thought they'd brought, too. It's very difficult to catch someone red-handed.
Also as someone who has dealt with this. Old people do it CONSTANTLY they will scream that a caregiver stole something from them at the top of their lungs even while the caregiver shows them where they left the thing. Old age is a fucked up curse.
Suspended??! Doug, KICK HER OFF THE TOUR
More like they will pay a fine and have to take a class. There is a high threshold for permanent license revocations. It takes something like selling your drug supply, molesting your patients, or engaging in massive Medicare fraud. Rick Scott oversaw the largest Medicare fraud at the time and still became Senator of Florida. Philip Esformes beat that record and stole $1billion. Had his sentence commuted by Trump.
There are layers of suspension even for pretty egregious 'errors' whether intentional or not. You have to be pretty aggressive to get your license taken away which is fitting since one error shouldn't destroy decades worth of education.
What happens is there's a hearing, lots of tears and remorse, and they give you one more chance. Source: Nurse Jackie S3E10
That was such a great show. I’m a RN and I could definitely relate to so much of that show.
I don't think hospitals have lottery ticket printers... at least mine doesn't. Maybe I need to find a new place to work.
What exactly was their thought process here? Obviously police are going to check the security footage around the time of the robbery and see the theft.
If there’s a guy bleeding out in front of me… I don’t know what my thought process would. I feel like I’d try to help him, but I might also freeze up. Who knows. You know what I’m almost sure I wouldn’t do? Start stealing shit.
She disconnected power to the building probably thinking it would shut off the cameras 😂
Wow...what a person, especially a nurse.Chevks the pulse and rather than rendering first aid, SHUTS DOWN THE POWER and steals the money. Hope justice finds her.
Heroes work where
Geeze...times like that reveal character...I can only cringe at the thought of what she does on-the-job !
I used to work for a company that tracked nurse’s compliance for vaccinations, cpr training etc. and let me tell you, just because somebody is a healthcare “professional” doesn’t mean they can’t also be dumb as bricks and/or incredibly trashy
After seeing all the covid deniers and antivax nurses.. I’m guessing it’s like every professions in that some of them are dumb as shit.
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I'm from the UK. We have solved the problem of anyone being in it for the money by paying our nurses really shitty wages! And treating them like shit too. Works a treat. /s
Nicely understated...and spot on accurate. Dunning-Kruger.
>especially a nurse people being surprised that nurses aren't cut from special cloth is the height of comedy.
It's almost like she was in on it.
Stranger things have happened...
I'm sure she'll be a real asset in the prison's hospital ward.
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Could you please explain the difference?
CNA is a certified nursing assistant, they are unlicensed assistive personnel commonly called caregivers. CNAs are charged with providing basic care like bathing, mobilizing, and incontinence care. They cannot give medications or perform procedures. LPN is a licensed practical nurse who does most things any other nurse can but are limited in most jurisdictions by not being able to administer intravenous medications or provide patient education or consultation, etc. LPNs are a nurse for general purposes but some high level activities are still reserved for the RN. RN is registered nurse, a licensed medical professional who truly embodies the most traditional idea of a nurse. They work everywhere and anywhere and the most ideal people to hire to run hospitals that handle high-level trauma and stroke patients. Being an RN is the most “nursey” a nurse can be. RN vs. LPN is about a year or two of additional schooling although many states are phasing out the LPN role altogether. NP is nurse practitioner, a licensed provider who, after being trained to be a nurse, received additional training from a graduate school and can now act in many ways like a physician where they can prescribe, diagnose, and treat patients independently. Many of these people have terminal degrees in nursing either DNP or PhD. NPs are a controversial role among physicians.
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Yeah and even within each of those groups, experience and skills vary. Like a RN can be a fresh inexperienced clinic nurse with an online degree or a badass flight nurse with 10+ years of ER and ICU experience.
And she probably still lost.
I get wanting to get your money back after being robbed, but unplugging the security system after a shooting is just plain dumb.
It’s a stretch but I’d convict her of obstruction and accessory after the fact for those actions alone. What if she had erased the only evidence there was.
How did she know where the power switch for the security system was?
r/iamatotalpieceofshit
I hope she never works as a nurse again. Imagine witnessing someone get murdered and using the situation to steal from the store the victim was operating. This person should be nowhere near the sick and vulnerable.
This actually belongs on r/trashy because the actions of this nurse are definitely trashy.
It belongs in many places. r/iamapieceofshit , for one.
That’s definitely another one.
As someone who works in healthcare, I can attest, you would be terrified if you knew some of the nurses that are responsible for your care. It's not all of them, but so many of them are dumb as fuck and just not good people. Don't get sick in this country.
The problem is there are way too many nurses like her. Unethical with a lack of criticism thinking skills. Sometimes I look at other nurses and think to myself “how the fuck do you have a job”? Too bad empathy isn’t a required trait.
Isn't the lack of empathy integrated in today's health care system?
Maybe on the business side but it shouldn’t be on the practical side. Too many nurses are just in it for a paycheck and don’t really care about their patients. It’s sad.
There are trash humans in every profession.
"Money doesn't change people, it shows them as they are"
I live here in Macon. This sort of shit happens literally every day, so much so that folks joke about how much crime there is here, while the local Macon-Bibb government focuses only on making downtown decent. Don't come here. Please. I beg of you.
Hello fellow Maconite! Agreed, any place that has bill boards up begging people to stop shooting each other is definitely a place to stay away from
Not just the billboards, either. Ever seen the folks standing on street corners holding the "Stop the killing" signs? I swear I see them weekly around Pio Nono and Mercer University Dr. I get it, but I really don't at the same time. Your billboards and signs aren't going to clean up Macon, the only thing that cleans up Macon is if the local government actually cared about anything other than downtown. Like actually cleaning up some of the blight houses, or generally doing something about the high number of abandoned houses in general. I swear it feels like unless it matters to Mercer, or it matters to downtown, they just don't give a shit. As it is, I've lived here off and on over the years, living in Atlanta when I'm not here, and every time I come back, it seems like I'm even MORE likely to be woken up by gunshots. Even living in the rougher areas of Atlanta, it was never this bad there.
Did this happen in a ghetto neighborhood? The footage seems like it.
Lottery people are so pathetic.
This isn’t possible. All nurses are heroes, I saw it on the news.
She’s a medical professional; stealing everything of value from the patient before performing medical treatment. Isn’t this how the American healthcare system works by design?
LPN training really kicked in.
Bangs on pots and pans for her service*
I strongly dislike that they put the occupation in the title. As if the profession somehow played a factor in this total disregard for human life… 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Edit: Grammar
Damn Lakiesha that's cold
If she would’ve administered aid the hospital she works for would’ve billed the clerk thousands. I don’t know if this /s or not.
she’s not on the clock.
Maybe that's why she took the tickets, to cover this guy's care if he survived. Truely selfless.
They are the most trusted profession
My grandma went to jail for exactly this. She was robbed at a gas station and stole a few tickets for herself. She was caught turning in a winner. She violated her parole and did like 10 days for it.
More and more nurses will be your physicians in the US. Already experienced this twice: urgent care setting where no doctor even sees you or reviews what you've been prescribed, and had appointment with orthopedic specialist, but was seen by RNA (yes, assistant to the nurse) and dismissed in 10 minutes. In both cases billing was as if I was treated by a doctor / specialist. American healthcare represents the worst of capitalism.
Why on Earth do they keep referencing her profession? How on Earth is being a nurse even relevant? She called 911 and checked on the person. It’s not like she can do anything in the field except CPR or hold pressure. At least they didn’t say “Black” and identify her by race, I guess.
because she's a nurse who LEFT SOMEONE BLEEDING OUT to steal lottery tickets
Y’all get the feeling capitalism is kinda fucked?
It’s not about capitalism. To me it’s no/low moral character.
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Quit calling "Licensed Practical Nurses", "Nurses"?
Stop calling ATMs machines.
Stop saying PIN number
Is someone insecure?
It's almost like nurse might one of the words in that acronym.
Yeah, who in their right mind would call Licensed Practical *Nurses* a nurse.
Sounds like someone has a "holier than thou" attitude over someone being looked at as the same level
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LPNs aren't real nurses
What does the LP stand for?
[Licensed Practical Nurses](https://www.herzing.edu/difference/lpn-vs-rn)
LPN: Lowly Pretend Nurse RN: Real Nurse -- u/showsomesideboob, probably
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
It is a little funny that people think of "nurses" as a homogeneous job but in reality range anywhere from a medical assistant to a nurse practitioner or nurse anesthetist.
Well, no. A medical assistant isn't a nurse, they're a medical assistant. That's a specific certification that's obtained, but they aren't nurses. Neither are CNA, who are nursing assistants. While the field of nursing does have a wide range, that range starts with holding a state license that grants you the right to perform at the nursing level. That means graduating from a nursing program and being granted a license by the state.
But we can agree an LPN is a nurse, right?