BTW the camera in the store was broken.
I don’t know what the big deal about her knowing the winning numbers is about, everyone knows the numbers.
Oh. My mistake then. The stories I saw just said that she had a receipt that showed the date and time of the lottery ticket sale, but didn’t specify if it was for the ticket.
eg/ My mom usually buys a ticket at the same time that she’s paying for any other merchandise. So I thought it was just that the date and time of the run-of-the-mill receipt matched the date and time of the ticket, but wasn’t necessarily a receipt for the ticket.
Either way, even if it’s not the receipt specifically for the ticket, that proof is about as incontrovertable as you can get.
Methinks Battle didn’t play her usual numbers and is just really ticked with herself for not doing so.
Honestly, by this logic anyone can come forward and claim the prize.
12 - Month I was born
18 - Age I could finally by lotto tickets legally
32 - My house number.
36 - Birthday of Michelangelo (Mar. 6th)
49 - Age of my dog (in dog years, of course)
21 - Birthday of my ex-girlfriend (Feb. 1st)
So that ticket is mine! :rolleyes:
Battle is a nutsack. She might get cited for filing a false police report.
Haj
“It’s a thorny legal issue alright. I’m going to have to refer to the case of Finders vs. Keepers”
-Lionel Hutz
Sounds like Ms Battle is in a wee bit o’trouble. Rightfully so.
36 is the year her sister was born??
She is 27 years younger than her sister?? Possible, I suppose. Also pretty easy to prove/disprove. Wonder if “authorities” even bothered to look into it that much.
Also, wouldn’t a “found” ticket show some wear and tear after sitting in the snow for a few days?
Anyway, I would like to take this time to announce that I have lost next week’s winning ticket as well as the one for the week after that. As soon as the numbers are drawn, I will be able to prove that they are my numbers by making connections to birthdays and whatnot.
Who wants a new car?
“It’s a thorny legal issue alright. I’m going to have to refer to the case of Finders vs. Keepers”
-Lionel Hutz
Sounds like Ms Battle is in a wee bit o’trouble. Rightfully so.
36 is the year her sister was born??
She is 27 years younger than her sister?? Possible, I suppose. Also pretty easy to prove/disprove. Wonder if “authorities” even bothered to look into it that much.
Also, wouldn’t a “found” ticket show some wear and tear after sitting in the snow for a few days?
Anyway, I would like to take this time to announce that I have lost next week’s winning ticket as well as the one for the week after that. As soon as the numbers are drawn, I will be able to prove that they are my numbers by making connections to birthdays and whatnot.
Who wants a new car?
A-ha! I rescind my previous nit-pick!
From a Cleveland-based new source:
Battle deserves any nastiness that’s going on in the pit right now.
Back when the first Powerball jackpot was won in Minnesota, someone called the Lottery Office and claimed that her maid accidentally threw away the ticket and that she wanted to know how to claim the jackpot without the ticket.
A brief discussion of the consequences of fraud ensued, which discouraged the woman from further interest in claiming the jackpot.
Someone else did claim it a few days later.
Yeah, she had a freaking MAID and she’s trying to fraudulently claim the jackpot with NO TICKET.
I don’t think that anything other than actual possession of the ticket can matter.
He/she stole my ticket? I lost it and they found it? Whatever.
As jk1245 showed above with this: “Anyway, I would like to take this time to announce that I have lost next week’s winning ticket as well as the one for the week after that. As soon as the numbers are drawn, I will be able to prove that they are my numbers by making connections to birthdays and whatnot.”
Any proof other than actual possession leads to madness. Every drawing would be followed by dozens of lawsuits. The woman who presented the winning ticket should have had to prove nothing, other than that the ticket was in her hand when she presented it.
I’ve never bought a ticket, but I would hate to see all those who like to play the lotteries deprived of the opportunity to piss their money away.
No one’s been to The Smoking Gun yet?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html
Ms. “Battle” 's story is balogna. Her lawsuit will be dismissed in about 5 minutes.
As far as receipts go, I’ve never received a receipt when I purchased the lottery ticket, just the ticket. Even if I’ve purchased other items, I only get a receipt for the other items I’ve purchased. So if this situation ever happened to me, I wouldn’t even have the proof that Ms. Jemison had.
Ms. Jemison’s ticket showed no signs of having been blowing around on the ground in a wet, dirty parking lot, according to the paper today. And even though the security cameras were not working, Ms. Jemison had another lottery ticket, a non-winning Pick-3 ticket, that the computer shows was purchased at the same time as the winning Mega-Millions ticket. Also clean and neat from being tucked carefully in her purse.
I worry about Ms. Jemison coming forward publicly about the winning ticket. Not only does this open her up to unwanted attention from every hard-luck story and con artist, but now Ms. Battle, who seems to hold grudges and harbor delusions, knows who she is, where she works, and probably where she lives. If I am ever fortunate enough to win such a large sum (if I ever remember to buy a ticket) I’d have my attorney handle claiming it to get some anonimity. She says her firm has been approached once about forming a trust thingy to claim a winning lottery ticket, but the prize was only $100,000, so the fees were too high to be practical.
If it had been my ticket, these are what the numbers mean to me:
12-the age of my nieces, if I remember right
18-the age my son was last year
21-my daughter’s current age
32- age my daughter will be in a year-and-a-quarter, reversed
36-age I was last time I had sex, minus the number of blue cars I have owned in my lifetime
49-age my friend was when we started dating.