Woman Says She Lost $162 Million Lottery Ticket

[Sinn Fein]

Woman Says She Lost $162 Million Lottery Ticket (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107454,00.html)

This is unreal. She might be legit or might just be a kook. The article says the ticket may have been destroyed due to the snowy weather after being dropped in the store parking lot. In that case, the money goes to the states who are part of the lottery after nobody claims it within the alloted time.

[wackadoo]

According to the police report, officers tried to see if Battle showed up on the store's surveillance cameras but the store owner said the cameras were broken.
she could be a candidate for the first "sucks to be you" of '04!

[Ballbuster1]

::hammer: Talk about being the winner of the "Unlucky Lottery"!

[MetalSign]

officers tried to see if Battle showed up on the store's surveillance cameras but the store owner said the cameras were broken.

Cue up Opie's HAHAHAHA sound bite.

[IRISHJERICHO]

Or stupid your so stupid:drunk:

[KaMoB]

Women turns in winning ticket... (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040106/D7VTEKI81.html)

Jan 6, 12:03 PM (ET)

By JOE MILICIA

CLEVELAND (AP) - A woman turned in the winning ticket for the $162 million Mega Millions multistate lottery jackpot, and it was not the one who claimed she lost it, lottery officials said Tuesday.

Rebecca Jemison, a hospital worker from South Euclid, turned in the 11-state jackpot at Ohio Lottery headquarters in downtown Cleveland, officials said. The lottery validated the sole winning ticket Tuesday morning for the drawing a week ago.

"I think I checked it about five or six times to make sure to see was it real," Jemison said at a news conference at lottery headquarters.

She said she told her mother even before telling her husband. "Being a mama's girl I wanted to share the news with my mama first," she added. She also talked to an attorney and an accountant.

"One thing I want to make clear: Luck had nothing to do with it. It was truly a blessing, truly a blessing," she said.

Earlier, a Cleveland woman, Elecia Battle, 40, filed a police report saying she lost the ticket last week. Police said her story was credible, but the Ohio Lottery said whoever turned in a valid ticket was legally entitled to the winnings.

About 30 people with flashlights searched for the ticket Monday night outside the suburban Cleveland store that sold the ticket after Battle's police report became public.

Jemison said she was angry and pushed to turn in the ticket after Battle's story was on the news. Jemison said she played the winning numbers occasionally over the past several years.

Battle's lawyer, Sheldon Starke, did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the lottery's announcement. He had said she intended to make a case that the winning ticket was lost property.

"This is a question of lost property, not abandoned property," he said earlier Tuesday. "If there is one type of property that is not presumed to be abandoned, it's money ... Anyone who finds it is not the owner."

Battle told police that the numbers - 12, 18, 21, 32 and 46 and Mega Ball 49 - represented family birthdays and ages.


I wonder if they are going to charge the other lady for filing a false police report.

[hairtussler]

This caption caught my eye and i had to read it what a fucking loser to the chick who said she lost the ticket. Sucks to be you winner of all time nothing will ever beat this.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040106/ap_on_re_us/mega_millions_lost_ticket

[hairtussler]

looks like the chick was trying to bullshit sorry if its not true im still on the morphine. i didnt read all the way to the bottom i got to excited about sucks to be you.

[IRISHJERICHO]

Money makes people act stupid as f@!k:drunk:

[blackout-]

yea this was on all the local news stations her in clev. what a dummy.

[RandomNY]

What gets me is that she already has a LAWYER.. I wonder how much they are going to try to sue for?

[Sinn Fein]

I think that lawyer is going to come in handy for dealing with the charges of filing a false report rather than staking a claim to the cash.

[Sinn Fein]

Gee, what a shocker. She's shady like an oak tree. (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/elecialotto1.html)

Lottery Loser's Shady Past
Ohio woman has fraud, assault convictions, uses alias
JANUARY 6--The Ohio woman who told police that she purchased--and then lost--the winning $162 million Mega Millions lottery ticket--has several arrests on her rap sheet, including convictions for assault and credit card fraud, The Smoking Gun has learned. In addition, Elecia Battle is using an alias and has falsely claimed to be married to the man with whom she now lives.

Battle, whose real name is Elecia Dickson, apparently has borrowed the surname of boyfriend James Battle. The 40-year-old pharmacy worker remains legally married to husband Keith Dickson, though the couple is in the middle of a divorce action pending in Cuyahoga County's Court of Common Pleas.

Using the Battle alias, Dickson this afternoon filed a lawsuit seeking to block the awarding of the Mega Millions jackpot to Rebecca Jemison, the woman who came forward today to claim the lottery jackpot (and who was declared the winner by Ohio state officials).

According to court records and TSG sources, Dickson's rap sheet dates back at least a decade and includes busts for aggravated menacing, assault, and credit card fraud. The latter conviction, according to a source familiar with the case, stemmed from a 1999 swindle Dickson orchestrated at a suburban Cleveland chain store. The below mug shot was taken following Dickson's September 1999 arrest in Cleveland Heights for misdemeanor assault.

The woman's estranged husband--who's been married to Dickson for 13 years--told TSG, "My wife can stretch things out of proportion." He added, "Looks like she filed a bogus police report."

When she went to cops with her tale of the lost lottery ticket, officers asked Dickson how she picked the six winning numbers. A couple of the numbers came from one son's birth date, while another number was her son's age flipped. As for why she picked the winning number 49, Dickson told cops that her "husband turns 49 this year." That came as a surprise to Keith Dickson, himself a dedicated gambler and lottery player. "I'm 44," he said. "I turn 45 in February."

[PrncssNikki]

Everyone around here knew she was a liar. You know something's up when the chick has Galmour Shots taken especially for her newspaper article.

[gasbuddah]

HA HA HA HA !!! THAT IS SOOO LAME!!!!

" No she's not retarded!"

nuff said!