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LOSER: Woman claims $162 million Mega Millions ticket lost..

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Waluigi

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CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland woman has told police she picked the winning numbers for the $162 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot but lost the ticket before the drawing, according to a police report.
Elecia Battle told police she dropped her purse as she left the Quick Shop Food Mart in suburban South Euclid last week after buying the ticket. She said she realized after the drawing last Tuesday that the ticket was missing.
The Ohio Lottery said last week that the winning ticket was sold at the store, about 15 miles east of Cleveland.
“I feel like crap right now,” said Battle, who cried while speaking to The Associated Press at her home Monday night.
Police say Battle also was in tears when she came to the station Friday to file the report and did not hesitate when asked to write down the winning numbers.
“We don’t believe that she’s fabricating it, but there’s no real way of knowing other than going on her word,” Lt. Kevin Nieter told Cleveland’s WEWS-TV on Monday.
Nieter said information Battle knew about when the ticket was bought and how the numbers were picked make her story credible. She told police that the numbers — 12, 18, 21, 32 and 46 and Mega Ball 49 — represented family birthdays and ages.
The winning ticket was sold to someone who chose the numbers, not someone who let the machine pick.
Messages seeking comment left Monday with the police department were not immediately returned.
Battle, 40, is a pharmacy trainer for Rite-Aid. She would not talk about the specifics of when she bought the ticket, how she lost it or even if she was a regular lottery player. She said her attorney, Sheldon Starke, would have a news conference Tuesday to announce a reward.
“I’m praying that someone finds the ticket, brings it forward and gets rewarded and from there we all live happily ever after. I’m just praying it has a positive ending,” she said.
Her husband, Jimmy Battle, has two jobs, including a paper route. The couple has seven children — some from previous marriages — ranging in age from 13 to 30.
“To have something in your hand and have it slip out is a tough thing to swallow,” said Jimmy Battle, 48.
Nieter said Elecia Battle may be out of luck if someone else picked up the lone winning ticket.
“Whoever has the ticket has the right to stake the claim to the winning jackpot. You can file all the police reports you want but it’s not going to help,” he said.
After news of Battle’s police report spread Monday night, about 30 people wielding flashlights walked through snow and braved frigid temperatures to try to find the ticket in the store parking lot and nearby bushes.
“I decided to come back to see if I could find the winning ticket,” said LaVerne Coleman, 57. The South Euclid woman said she would keep the millions if she found the ticket.
The police report says officers tried to see if Battle showed up on the store’s surveillance cameras but the store owner said the cameras were broken.
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--Waluigi
 
If it fell on the store's floor, it's probably at the local dump.

Not many people would bend down to look at the crap they're sweeping up, especially when it gets wet from the snow -- unless it look's like money.

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Is this a couple big Mega Millions Jackpots that'll likely unclaimed. ;)
 
“I decided to come back to see if I could find the winning ticket,” said LaVerne Coleman, 57. The South Euclid woman said she would keep the millions if she found the ticket.
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Ah. A woman after my own heart....:rolleyes:
 
Its like a bad nightmare - you picked the winning numbers, bought the ticket, yet you lost it.....

And it probably won't ever be found and the whole bit will be rolled back into the MegaMillions game in 180 days....

Sad - and you have to feel for her a little, but damn, talk about two extremes of luck - the good, the bad - ugly would be all the hoards of people descending on the town hoping to find the ticket in the dumpsters, dump and everywhere in between...:rolleyes:

D
 
Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Its like a bad nightmare - you picked the winning numbers, bought the ticket, yet you lost it.....

And it probably won't ever be found and the whole bit will be rolled back into the MegaMillions game in 180 days....

Sad - and you have to feel for her a little, but damn, talk about two extremes of luck - the good, the bad - ugly would be all the hoards of people descending on the town hoping to find the ticket in the dumpsters, dump and everywhere in between...:rolleyes:

D
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It's almost like the urban legend where the guy buys a lottery ticket and wins, but loses the ticket.

His wife berates him and calls hima failure, and he ends up hanging himself.
 
Hahaha, damn....this could get really ugly....I wonder what the person with the winning ticket will have to say for themselves....;)

D
 
At least there's some time before the money gets put back into the pot. But still, it's going to be a very interesting case to see.
 
The lady has produced a receipt for her purchase so it would seem that she would have the upper hand. You also have to see when she contacted the attorney and accountant.

From what I've read I'm going to side with the lady who presented the ticket.... for now.
 
"This is a question of lost property, not abandoned property," he said earlier Tuesday. "If there is one type of property that is not presumed to be abandoned, it's money ... Anyone who finds it is not the owner."
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If you drop a $100 bill -- how much effort do you expect somebody to make to find you?

If you drop a $1 bill -- would you expect somebody to look for you? No...

So this -- I lost a $1 ticket, and now expect somebody to give me 160 million for the utter stupidity.

If she knew she dropped the ticket, she could have went out bought a new one -- it was only a $1.

Face it the ticket is only worth $1 until the drawing, maybe less -- unless you can find somebody who likes the numbers on it.

After the drawing the found tickets are usually worth nothing.

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If you buy a ticket and want the money, be the first to sign it.
 
Originally posted by Juventuz
She should receive some sort of punishment.
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Funniest thing I'veheard today.

Truth is though, what she's going through right now probably outweighs any punishment anybody could give her.

I think Homer says it best to describe her situation (and I dont mean the poet)

DOH!
 
Originally posted by agreenster
Truth is though, what she's going through right now probably outweighs any punishment anybody could give her.
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Hell yeah it is. It wouldn't surprise me to see a judge give no sentence for it, but for her to live with the embarrassment.
 
I'm glad she wised up and didn't pursue the case. I don't know what the penalty for filing a false police report is, but I think that is the most she can be charged with. Hopefully, the DA has better things to do than prosecute such a case. She had her 15 minutes of fame, time to move on.
 
Originally posted by Sayhey
I'm glad she wised up and didn't pursue the case. I don't know what the penalty for filing a false police report is, but I think that is the most she can be charged with. Hopefully, the DA has better things to do than prosecute such a case. She had her 15 minutes of fame, time to move on.
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The report that I read said that Elecia Battle was arrested for credit card fraud, as well as assault. Tack on filing a false police report on top of this, and being a general scum-sucking loser.

Lotto Losers

Here is the loser in full color.
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And her mugshot.
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I guess she got more than her 15 minutes of fame worth. :p
 
Originally posted by Frohickey
The report that I read said that Elecia Battle was arrested for credit card fraud, as well as assault. Tack on filing a false police report on top of this, and being a general scum-sucking loser.

I guess she got more than her 15 minutes of fame worth. :p
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She finally admitted it was all a lie.

Hopefully they send her ass to jail, after spending he 15 minutes in front of the judge.

The $300 Million Lottery idiot Jack Whittaker was arrested for threatning to kill a bar employee, and his entire family. :p

So there was quite a bit of Lottery stupidity this past week, though Jack has been enjoying a life full of stupid human lottery tricks since he won.
 
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