Posted on 05/20/2007 6:15:46 AM PDT by Muzzle_em
NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Kristina Schneider tried to persuade a customer at the BP station where she works to buy the last ticket on a roll of the Magnificent Millions lottery game.
"I always joke that the last ticket is the winning one, but he said he only had enough money for three tickets," Schneider said.
This time, her advice was no joke.
The single mother -- with nine maxed-out credit cards and $8,500 in debt for her associate's degree -- bought what turned out to a $1 million winning ticket with a $10 bill she found in the store Friday.
"I thought someone was playing a trick on me" when she found
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Try not pissing in your own corn flakes every morning.
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what a great story.
Here I have been wasting my time paying off bills and credit cards and I should have been buying lotto tickets. DOH!!
Sad, but most likely true with 9 credit cards already maxed out. It never ceases to amaze me how people can go through money like that.
To work at a gas station?
These state run SCAMS are a tax on the poor. While I am happy for this woman it will do nothing but get others like her to throw their money away at the false notion that they, too, will win.
“no idea of the lawsuits that are about to be filed to claim all or half of that prize.”............The $10.00 bill is back in circulation by now. How is anyone going to prove it was their $10? It won’t be worth the trouble. $1M isn’t what it was 50 years ago. Not only that, the IRS has a large portion of it before she gets to spend the first dollar.
Oh, my gosh, I hope she doesn’t get hit with law suits. She should have shut her trap and took the money and left town.
Glad for her short term windfall, really. However, given the proven axiom “you can’t make enough money to solve bad financial habits”, without a significant shift in financial literacy, this is a temporary fix for her.
“Can store employees even legally claim a lotto prize?”
Yes. No conflict of interest here since she doesn’t work for the state.
Happens all the time.
Where did she get the associate's degree from? Harvard?
“Where did she get the associate’s degree from? Harvard?”
Kinkos?
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Where did she get the associate's degree from? Harvard?
It is a great story. Good for her.
Is this a great country or what? I mean, what's left of it.
I read of a case where there was a contest with Pepsi, I think it was, where you could win a million dollars if you had the winning number under the label or some such. Anyhow, a restuarant employee sold a customer a Pepsi. The customer drank it and threw the empty container in the trash and left. The employee got it out of the trash and looked under the label and won the million. The customer sued her claiming it was her purchase that won the money. The court ruled in favor of the employee.
Oh nonsense, if someone can prove it was their $10 bill, she can give ‘em their $10 back.
Looks like they would have to prove that they would have purchased that last ticket with the 10 spot had they not lost it first. Pretty darn hard to do.
Yes, that would be near to impossible too. I was just telling the poster, quit carping.
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