This story gets stranger and stranger. I predict the woman, if her story is true, will be forced to share the winnings with everyone in the pool.
If her ticket doesn’t get really stolen in the end.
I still think it’s an April Foo Day joke that hasn’t reached it’s expiration date quite yet....
And she will have nobody to blame but herself. If you manage a pool, and want to bet on the side too, you have to have a way of proving which tickets were pool tickets and which were your own. A simple copy of the pool tickets distributed prior to the drawing would have done. It doesn't appear that she did that, so she should split the funds.
Who stores their private tickets in McDonald's safe anyway? I don't believe her.