The one who claims to have lost the winning ticket? She has absolutely no physical evidence and most importantly, she’s a freakin’ grifter for God’s sake!! She doesn’t just have a criminal record, she has a history of commiting fraud, scams, and using aliases (she’s sort of using one right now!)
Does anyone think she has even the tiniest bit of credibility?
(And thank God the other woman is also black, otherwise Al Sharpton would be involved by now ;))
I think she’s full of it personally. The winner had a ticket from the previous drawing w/ the exact same numbers too, the way alot of people try to win.
Grem
Is anyone still listening to her? Besides the press, I mean (obviously they shower attention on her because it makes for a zippy story.)
She initially fooled the cops with a very convincing story, so she’s coasting on that publicity.
i think this is a load of crap, she has no evidence to prove it was actually hers, and any loser could claim they lost a winning ticket, besides… finders keepers, losers weepers. haha
Not only did the lady with the winning ticket have a ticket from a previous weeky with the same numbers, she had another ticket bought at the same time, same place as the winner. I don’t seem to remember the con artist saying anything about loosing two tickets…
And she saved her receipt! Good for her.
How long do you think it’ll be before the woman that claimed she lost the ticket gets her own talk show or is on Celebrity Mole?
I may be mistaken, but I thought that when you bought a lottery ticket, the numbers were stored and the lottery officials were able to determine if any winning tickets were sold for that specific lottery round. If you pick your own numbers do they not get entered into the system that way or something? I could swear that I’ve seen reports claiming “One winning ticket was sold in <city, state>, but no winners have come forward yet.”
If this is the case, how come the lottery system did not show that two winning tickets were actually sold. It seems they could have very easily put an end to this much earliear by saying “Look, this lady has a receipt, a winning ticket, and a ticket with the same numbers on it from a previous week. Therefore it is definitely hers. According to our system, there were no other winning tickets sold here or anywhere, so you, Miss Battles, are full of crap.”
Instead it looks like the lottery officials waited for her to admit she was lying before they said they knew all along that she was lying. Am I missing something about knowing the number of winning tickets and where they were sold before actual winners come forward? Thanks in advance for any info.
Ms. Battle was claiming that the sole winning ticket was one SHE bought, and subsequently lost. In other words, the ticket that Ms. Jemison had and presented was the same one that Ms. Battle lost.
I imagine Ms. Battle didn’t think things through, because the truth of Ms. Jemison’s claim was buttressed by her possession of another ticket bought at the same time, and of previous tickets with the same number.
I guess this is the new way to gain celeberty status…
This is not a factual question. I don’t know if you wanted to start an opinion poll or a rant, so I’ll close this thread rather than move it.
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