The good guys lost. In the end, the bad guy lost worse though. ;)
Posted on 04/02/2012 8:30:50 AM PDT by rawhide
Employees at a McDonald’s in Maryland are outraged at a co-worker who claims she won $105million in Mega Millions which she is not planning on sharing - despite the fact they had pooled their money for tickets.
Workers at the fast food outlet bought a number of tickets together for the biggest lottery in world history but Wilson claims she separately bought one of the three tickets nationwide that will split a record $656 million payout.
'We had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The ‘winning’ ticket] wasn’t on the group plan,' Wilson told The New York Post.
The group’s tickets —along with a list of those who contributed to the pool — were left in an office safe at the fast food outlet..
Then, late Friday, before the night’s drawing, the owner of the McDonald’s, gave Wilson $5 to buy more tickets for the pool on her way home from work, and she went back to the 7-Eleven and bought them.
Wilson took those tickets home with her.
According to the Post, when she found out she had the winning ticket, she called coworkers and told them she - rather than they - had won.
'I won! I won!' she told a colleague.
'She said, "Turn on the news". She said she had won.
A man identifying himself as (Allen), the boyfriend of a McDonald’s manager named Layla, then went to Wilson's home to question her about the winning ticket. Though she first refused to come out, they banged on her door for 20 minutes until she finally relented.
'These people are going to kill you. It’s not worth your life!' Allen said he told her.
'All right! All right! I’ll share, but I can’t find the ticket right now,' she said, according to Allen.
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The good guys lost. In the end, the bad guy lost worse though. ;)
I’ve never understood the concept of pooling tickets. If you want to win the money, buy it yourself. I’d never give somebody else money to act as a third party in a lottery purchase, no matter how trustworthy they may appear. Something about instant money changes that trust in a jiffy.
Typical lotto winners..never fails.
-Retired millionaire doctors/surgeons.
-Elderly people with one foot in the grave.
-The very poor.
-A large group of office/factory workers who will all end up suing each other for various reasons for years after the drawing.
We used to do this every week in Texas. Had a neat little program. Out of the 50 numbers, we ‘picked’ a group of ~30. Then, we ‘wheeled’ combinations of those numbers. If we got 3 numbers out of the 5 in our ‘big pool’; we’d win a bunch of $3 numbers. If we got 4 numbers out of the 5, we’d have a 4 number winner, and a bunch of 3 number winners.
We never managed to get all 5 numbers in our pool of 30 numbers - but if we did - we’d clean up with scads of 4 numbers and 3 number winners combined with the winning number.
I’m surprised office’s don’t do this more often. Better odds than a bunch of random numbers.
It does not matter that she bought “additional, other tickets” outside of the pool tickets. Once you have entered into a contract, witnessed by multiple participants, the contracted behavior if any one of the parties wins, the contract stands. So is the problem with entering into contracts. You must follow through.
For my area, signed tickets are a requirement. No Sig, no cash.
It increases your chance of winning for less out of your pocket. I would rather give out $5 than $200 and get something rather than nothing.
I’d never give somebody else money to act as a third party in a lottery purchase, no matter how trustworthy they may appear. Something about instant money changes that trust in a jiffy.
We photocopied the sheets and everyone received a copy with all the other employee names who participated.
Big lottery winnings bring out the worst in people, and more often than not, make the lives of the winners worse. This case is not going to end well.
Rule #1: Never tell anybody you won until.
1. You’ve changed your phone number.
2. Hired a lawyer.
If I had won I would have stuck the ticket in a bank's safe deposit box, hired a lawyer to prepare to collect it and a tax advisor to tell me whether I could sell my house and move to an income tax free state before signing the ticket to avoid losing an extra 7% to taxes. It would probably be at least a couple of months before I would be ready to claim it.
OMG, everyone is all for sharin’ unless they don’t want to.
That’s what they do at my husband’s work (engineers). Where I’m at (retail) we do random. But both “sets” xeroxed!
They need to tack your post above every lottery counter.
It would be a wise thing to do.
Nope. Exactly the same odds. You just have slightly less chance of winning one or two small prizes at a time and a greater chance of bunching them together on a single drawing.
How’s this for a simple solution:
If you’re the one assigned to buy “pool tickets” at work, just put the betting slips into an envelope and leave that envelope at work. Heck, lock it up in the company safe if that makes everyone feel better.
Then you can buy all the “personal” tickets you want and they can’t claim that you improperly kept the winner for yourself.
Yep, we get copies of the tickets emailed to us before the drawing. Sounds like the group tickets were kept in the safe at McDonalds for this deal. She better be able to show that she had the $5 ticket that the manager sent her for PLUS another $5 ticket of her own, or I think she’ll be sharing, and also using a bunch to pay her lawyer.
1 - Haitian immigrant
2 - Mother of Seven
3 - Home-made name (Mirlande)
She can claim anything but the facts will tell the true tale.
The details about the ticket such as the time it was sold and if it was sold as one of a group or sold as a single ticket will determine if she is lying or telling the truth.
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