A guy who owned/owns a store where they sell Lottery tickets, said a couple of his Employees stole a bunch of Lottery scratch off tickets and when confronted, they claimed they would pay him back with the winnings. :/ He had an ingenious idea. He acted like he wasn't all that mad and got them to sign a paper promising to give him back the stolen lottery money with the winnings. He turned that signed paper into the court and got them prosecuted.

They were idiots to first steal lottery tickets from their Employer and then basically sign a confession of theft thinking their boss was going to be okay with them for promising to pay him back with the stolen winnings. They had no idea the boss was going to turn in that signed confession of theft to the court and get them prosecuted.

Smart people would have refused to sign anything. They were most likely caught on camera signing that confessional paper AND stealing the lottery tickets in the first place. Being caught on camera stealing the Lottery tickets is bad enough but to also be seen signing the confessional paper made matters even worse.