Posted on 04/06/2012 7:12:45 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The flaky McDonald's worker who claimed she had one of the winning Mega Million Lottery tickets now says she lost the slip.
When asked by NBC News if she was going to ever to ask for her share of the dough, Mirlande Wilson replied, "If I find it (the ticket).
The NBC reporter then asked if she had lost the ticket, to which the 37-year-old Baltimore woman replied, "I misplaced it."
She insisted she didnt make up the story though.
I did not make up no story to get no attention, she told NBC.
The strange conversation is just the latest mind-boggling twist thrown by the supposed newly minted millionaire. Earlier this week, she called a press conference only to have her lawyer, Edward Smith Jr., ask for the journalists gathered to go away.
"(Wilson) would like all of you to go home," he told the bewildered crowd. "This needs to stop so she and her children can go back to a normal life."
He added he hadn't seen the winning ticket either and "cannot say with any certainty this ticket exists."
Wilson has also been sketchy in her tale of how she had a winning ticket for the record $656 million drawing in the first place.
She first said she bought the ticket at a 7-Eleven for herself, then said a co-worker purchased one for her while buying tickets for a group of McDonald's employees.
She has also claimed to have hidden the ticket at McDonald's a claim her co-workers have said is dubious.
"She could not have hidden any ticket here," one employee told the Daily News this week. "She hasn't been back and she doesn't have any locker to hide it. She would not hide it in the bathroom or anything."
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
You can only vote once.
Do you think Mirlande Wilson won the lottery?
Yes -- she could have misplaced the ticket. | 7% | |
No way, she's totally lying. | 83% | |
I'm not sure. | 10% |
Mirlande Wils has been drinking too much coke: TOO MUCH SUGAR has muddled her brain.
No bull.
...drinking too much coke....
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I agree about the coke part. Drinking it??? Not so sure. More like smoking it.
She’s at 14 minutes and 25 seconds........
I would shoot myself in the head if I misplaced the ticket.
“I did not make up no story to get no attention.”
Sigh. There’s a member of Mensa right there.
The lottery authorities announced shortly after the Mega Millions drawing that one of the winning tickets was sold in Baltimore County. If this woman doesn’t have the ticket, then someone else in the Baltimore area has it.
I hope the person who actually won the ticket has a lawyer with them when they go to cash it in. I have a funny feeling Mirlande Wilson will attempt to claim it was stolen from her.
Good luck. I also suspect that Maryland will look closely at whoever turns in the ticket to see if there is any connection with any McDonald's employee.
Just passed 15mins; she’s over.
THAT, of course, was my first thought.
However, it's Easter Sunday and I thought I'd put away my fangs for a few hours. :o)
I do find it odd that as of just a few hours ago none of the three winning tickets have been redeemed.
How does an unmarried woman with 7 kids have time to work at McDonald’s?
Stupidity should be painful, and hopefully this woman is in a world of pain that she richly deserves. She has managed to alienate her friends, neighbors, and her co-workers who will never neither trust her, nor likely associate with her again.
If you should win a lottery, a smart person would quickly call a lawyer and form a corporation, legally managed and ran anonymously, if possible. The goal it to keep the winnings ‘secret’ as possible. That way, you don’t find people crawling out of the woodwork, demanding “loans”, “investment opportunties” and outright “gifts”. If something gets botched, they can sue the Corporation, not you. Then, you can proceed on to the other necessities, such as insuring yourself such that if you should die, your heirs have enough insurance coverage to pay the IRS the taxes on their inheritance - because the IRS is going to want to be paid. You do not open your mouth and say “I won” ... it’s amazing no one has killed her for the ticket already.
I would shoot myself in the head if I misplaced the ticket.
Come on already,,, just get her a gig on DWTS, the View or the Today show and be done it already !!!
Dem kids be takin care o demselves...
If Obama had an older daughter...
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