Valid $179 Million Lost Lottery Ticket Turned In- Battle Looms Over 'Lost Property'

Detroit Free Press ^ | 1/6/04

[11th Earl of Mar]

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Someone turned in a valid ticket for the $162 million Mega Millions multistate lottery jackpot, the Ohio Lottery said Tuesday, a day after a Cleveland woman claimed she lost the winning ticket outside the convenience store where it was sold.

[dead]

Are you Ms. Battle?

I can't think of any other reason you'd be defending this obvious fraud.

She's not getting paid, she's going to jail.

[lelio]

I'm waiting for the newsflash "Pimp says that he dropped his hat at the South Euclid convience store and wants it back"

[SamAdams76]

I'm not buying this woman's story about how she picked her numbers. If I took the birthdays, birthyears, and ages of everybody in my family, and had the option of inverting them, I could come up with just about any combination of numbers I wanted. And any leftover numbers, I could use "for luck" as this woman did.

[mabelkitty]

Tell me somebody at the store or at the Commission leaked the day and time the ticket was sold. That coincidence, and the description of the people who were "around the store" give me pause.

However - if Battle and Jemison KNOW each other (which isn't out of the realm of possibility), well that will be even more fun. One works at Rite-Aid, one works at a hospital....Jemison told Battle the details, Battle used them to try to gain the money.....tin-foil ran out. I'll be back.

[dead]

It also helps if you have seven kids and three husbands!

[mabelkitty]

I am.
I was told I get half if I convince everyone on the internet to support her *snicker snicker*

Her husband works two jobs - one delivery newspapers. He's 48 years old. They married and he takes care of her kids from another marriage.

Get it now? It isn't about her.

[Sabatier]

"Battle, 40, filed a police report saying she dropped her purse as she left the Quick Shop Food Mart last week after buying the ticket. She said she realized after the drawing last Tuesday that the ticket was missing."

If you just spent money on a ticket wouldn't it be real fresh on your mind to make sure the ticket was still in that purse you just dropped?

Yet she didn't check at that point, only realizing later that the ticket was gone, so how does she know she "lost" it at the store and not somewhere else?

Maybe after she got home one of the kids took it, or hubby, or the dog ate it. She's saying she lost it when she dropped her purse but it could have been one of a hundred other scenarios. If she didn't check to see if she had it after dropping her purse she can't really say when or how it "disappeared".

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

You can always tell a person by what they wear.

They hat was a dead giveaway. That is not an honest hat.

[Chewbacca]

"Listen. All state lotteries have this policy and they do it for a very good reason: To avoid endless litigation and bickering over situations like this. Whether she genuinely lost the ticket or not, this woman doesn't have a leg to stand on. If you don't have the ticket in hand, then sorry, but you cannot claim your prize. End of story. "


Even South Park had an episode where the kids won a candy raffle but had to show the ticket to get the prize. I side with the woman who turned in the signed ticket.

[T.Smith]

"Yeh, Ms. Battle (appropriately named for this adventure) looks like a female pimp (is there such a thing?) ;)

Heidi Fleiss.

[boxerblues]

The other women could only give a window of 2 hours when she was in the store according to the report on smoking gun, not an exact time. Jamison's receipt would be proof positive that she was in the store at a specific time. She done, stick a fork in her

[mabelkitty]

I bet they do know each other....

[PBRSTREETGANG]

It isn't about her.

She just tried to steal $162 million.

It is now.

[Bikers4Bush]

Well now you're just being rediculous.

[gridlock]

Police Report is credible evidence.

Evidence of what? She came into a police station and claimed to have lost a winning lottery ticket after the drawing. All that proves is that she is willing to lie to the police.

Nice try, Ms. Battle. Now go away.

We can just thank our lucky stars that the true winner also turned out to be an African American female, so this will not turn into a racial CF as well.

[mabelkitty]

Yes, if she's guilty, she just made his life harder.
I was hoping he'd be on easy street. He's doing the right thing.

[Bikers4Bush]

It's a ho's hat and probably cost her more than the coats on her kids backs.

[mabelkitty]

No kidding.
The whole thing is ridiculous.

[boxerblues]

I doubt they know each other other than in passing in the corner store, even that is highly unlikely. Battles in in a heap of trouble, Jamison wants to relocate and probably with good reason after her name is now public.

[JENINMO]

I'm amazed she didn't pick the number 19. ;) WHY would she change 23 to 32? That doesn't make any sense. The 64 to 46 is a bit more believeable. Goofy. So this woman is out buying lottery tickets 12 days after giving birth? 12/18/03. This is a crock of doo doo............