Winning Lottery Ticket!
 

just saw it on the news she scanned the ticket and it did not say it was a winner. Should you trust the lottery to do its job?

Woman who lost Ark. lotto ticket entitled to $1M

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) ? An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 million lottery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it, according to a judge's ruling Tuesday.

The judge decided that Sharon Duncan was entitled to the prize money, not Sharon Jones, who claimed the prize money after she took the ticket from a trash can of discarded lottery tickets at a convenience store in Beebe, a city about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock.

Jones' attorney, James Simpson, said he plans to appeal. Jones had testified that she already spent some of the money on a new truck and cash gifts to her children.

Simpson noted that Duncan testified she threw away the ticket after the read-out on a ticket scanner said, "Sorry. Not a winner." The attorney argued that people shouldn't be allowed to throw items away and then say, "'ooh, I want to un-abandon it.'"

"We'd have garage-sale law all over the place," he said. "It became trash when someone threw it away."

White County judge Thomas Hughes, however, said Jones never met the burden of proof that Duncan abandoned her right to claim $1 million.

"The $1 million was never found money," Hughes said.

Earlier Tuesday, Jones testified that she gathered a handful of discarded tickets from the trash can ? as she had done many times before ? and said there was no sign alerting customers not to take tickets.

That contradicted Super 1 Stop store manager Lisa Petriches' earlier testimony that she had taped a sign that read "Do not take" on the can. But a former store clerk testified that Petriches posted the sign only after Jones claimed the prize.

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Petriches brought the lawsuit against Jones, and Duncan joined it after the judge said at a January hearing that she may be the true owner of the ticket. Hughes ruled that Petriches and the store's owner, Louie Dajani ? whose corporation, Summer One LLC, joined the suit ? weren't entitled to anything.

The judge instructed the winning side to write the judgment for his signature, and it will become official once Hughes signs it. Jones' attorneys will then have 30 days to file an appeal.

Hughes found that the evidence weighed in Duncan's favor that she bought the winning ticket, even though lottery records and store security video didn't synch up to the precise timing of the purchase.

Arkansas Lottery Security Chief Lance Huey testified that he investigated the circumstances of the ticket falling into Jones' hands. He said the lottery was satisfied with the investigation and awarded the prize.

Duncan's attorney, James "Red" Morgan, argued that she simply made a mistake by throwing away a $1 million ticket and that the only right she willingly parted with was to enter the ticket for the possibility of a secondary prize.

The lotto should eat this one and pay them both. Problem solved. They fucked up, they should have to pay.

they won't do it. :2 cents:

What evidence could their possibly be other than the video? If the times don't match up then there is no proof.

Even so, the women tossed it in the can. Sorry lady but that's your fuck up. She probably didn't even scan the ticket as she is claiming.

Reads to me like the store clerk and the Duncan are trying to pull some crooked shit together. Fuck em both.

It actually happened to me twice that I scanned a ticket in the little machines they have and it said not a winner, but I always have the old tickets scanned by the agent when I play my new ticket.

In this case they should pay the $1M to the two people.

The fuck they should. If you have a 1mil lottery ticket, take some personal responsibility and check the numbers yourself. :2 cents:

In NY, I dunno about Ark., lottery tickets are bearer instruments, which means whoever has it, owns it. There is a signature line on the back for a reason. You have to sign those damn things to cover your ass, and do not rely on some scanner. Look up the winning numbers online or catch your local news cast. When you win, call the number and have them verify it and let them instruct you. For large winnings you should drive to the capital where the main lottery headquarters are anyway to have your photo taken with a giant novelty check.

I don't get these folks who buy a ticket then just trust the stores machine and clerk and then just toss it away. There's been so many cases of clerks lying and trash picking.. so dont ever do that.

I would say if her name is on it, it should be up to lotto rules who wins, otherwise she put it in the trash, too bad for you.

The purchaser should get the money.

It said not a winner. It's the lottos fault.

I think that it should be split between them. The first woman was at fault for not double checking the numbers and tossing it. The second lady shouldn't have been going through the trash but she found it so she should get a portion of it.

My question is if the first lady threw it away how did she know that the ticket was a winner? Did it have her name on it? Or did she just remember the numbers that she used or whatever?

yep people trust the lotto to do their job. :2 cents: i won a grand on bingo. :1orglaugh thought it was 50 bucks she said take it over to tempe i said wtf for? she said its a $1,000 man i needed that money.