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Alleged Maryland Lottery Winner: Won't share with McDonald's co-workers
MD happens to be one state in which you can remain anonymous - my thoughts:
A) If she won and didn't plan to share - she's a dumbass for coming out, apparently she's now back-pedaling but it's too late, her co-workers will likely sue her and may win since she apparently had some of the pooled numbers.
B)What comes first - the chicken or the egg? Is everyone greedy at heart, or do you get extra-greedy after you're in the top 1% 
Deja pool? Woman claims she won Mega Millions jackpot with her own ticket, not one from work pool
Mega Millions fever has barely cooled from Friday?s record-breaking $656 million jackpot but feuds are already heating up.
The New York Post is reporting, Mirlande Wilson, an employee at a Maryland McDonald?s claims she has a winning ticket from Friday?s historic lottery jackpot. The only problem ? Wilson?s coworkers at the McDonald?s allege her ticket was part of a work pool.
Wilson?s coworkers, who make little more than $7.50 an hour, say they each gave her $5 to buy tickets for the group. A list of the 15 contributors was tallied and the purchased tickets were placed in an office safe. A source also tells the paper Wilson bought the pooled tickets from a 7-Eleven in Milford Mill, where the winning lottery ticket was sold.
The owner of the McDonalds?s, Birul Desai said before the winning numbers were drawn Friday, he gave Wilson $5 to buy more tickets for the pool but those were not added to the office safe and instead went home with Wilson.
Wilson told the New York Post she did take part in the office pool but that her winning ticket came from a personal purchase. Lottery officials announced winning tickets were also sold in Illinois and Kansas.
If Wilson is indeed a winner, she stands to gain a lump sum of $105 million, or $5.59 million a year for 26 years.
Even in its earlier stages, Wilson?s predicament already resembles that of Americo Lopes ? a New Jersey man who took home a $24 million jackpot three years ago and was sued by five former coworkers for cheating them out of an office lottery pool. Lopes? luck ran out just weeks ago when a jury ruled in favor of his accusers, ordering he forfeit $20 million of his winnings.
Wilson may visit lottery officials as early as today to claim her alleged winnings ? a measure that is sure to be closely followed by contention from her coworkers.
Re: Alleged Maryland Lottery Winner: Won't share with McDonald's co-workers
This is why you make copies of those numbers that you pool and distribute those to the other people in the pool. Really, it's not that hard.
I bet all her money is blown within the first 2 years.
But the pooled tickets are in the safe?
Aside from whatever may have been purchased with the $5 someone else gave her later? Allegedly.
Eh, whatever. Sounds like the claims are flimsy. And, really who couldn't live off the $13 mill she'd get if she paid out the pool contributors?
That she April Fools'ed her fellow MickyD's workers (cuz that *** ain't funny) or the entire story?
That is how our office did it.
DD #1 passed away in January 2011 at 14 days old due to congenital heart disease
DD#2 lost in January 2012 at 23 weeks due to anhydramnios caused by a placental abruption
I will fess up to having the exact same thought.
Probably from all different men and she's probably on welfare
LOL
Save this for when we do our mom AE day. Cause my mama HATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTESSSS a chick with a whole buncha kids and no daddy no where to be found. She leans so right on this issue she hits left again.
We have an office pool, but the accounting dept. tracks it. To make sure things like this don't happen. If you buy in, you buy in by EOD on Thursday. If you forget, no dice. Or you could buy your own ticket and donate it to the office, but that's it, it then belongs to the office. Sometimes people donate extra tickets, especially with a big jackpot, but if you donate more than $1 in a week or more tickets, you don't get a bigger piece of the pie. We agree to split everything evenly.
On Friday, the list of everyone who bought in as well as a copy of the actual tickets is distributed via email. That's it. Last week on Friday we had 21 people buy in and a total of 64 tickets.
If we win a small amount (we won $5 on Friday, we won something like $40 the week before between all our tickets), we roll it over into ticket for the next week. If you buy in, say, this week, we win a few dollars, and then NEXT week we win big, but with a slightly different list of people buying in, there's an algorithm that determines how much money you get, depending on what weeks you participated. If we don't win anything this week and then win next week, nothing is rolled over, and therefore it's split evenly.
And stories like this are why we have a system.
40/112
Ding.
The story/woman being real.
I just heard it again on radio....MD Lotto officials are dismissing the story. So, I am not sure?
Eh, not really. If we have an odd number of tickets, like 36, we might have 7 sets of 5 numbers and then just 1 number on the last ticket. If that's what you're talking about? Or that the transaction itself was a single number? Maybe she paid for it separately for some reason, but that doesn't PROVE anything.
40/112
They said the winner just bought one ticket (one set of #s). It's just what I heard, and it stuck out to me because everybody they interview on the news said they bought multiple tickets.
Aaaaaaaaaaand working at McDonald's to boot.
There's a chick down the street with four or five raggedy ass, ashy kneed, hot mess headed kids. Only one of their daddies comes around and only long enough for her to be screaming at him in the middle of the street about how he doesn't pay child support.
To quote Chris Rock, Fee fie foe figga . . . .
Click me, click me!
I don't think they track that - they just track if a winning number was sold and where it was sold. The winning number may be on just one ticket, but that doesn't mean the winner only bought one ticket, they don't know that until the person officially comes forward and tells them so (and even then you really don't know). The MD lottery says they can't confirm anything because nobody officially came forward. It seems like this lady opened her big mouth in the excitement of the moment (if she is, indeed, the winner), and then thought about the ramifications afterwards and is now trying to figure out what to do. Like pps said, it will be blown in 2 years, if she is the winner, she's already displayed her stupidity.
I just shared what I heard on the local news, which has equal odds of being right or wrong, lol.
And now she's afraid to show anyone the ticket and claims that the coworkers all had copies of the tickets bought in the pool. Why did she even go public in the first place?????
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/03/10999000-woman-who-claims-winning-mega-millions-ticket-refuses-to-produce-it
I wish I could join the Kuuuuu Klux Klan!!