So what's your take on the $162 million lottery ticket winner(s)?

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The woman who claims she bought the ticket and lost it has now filed suit to block the payout of the lottery proceeds to the woman who stepped forward with the winning ticket. According to the Smoking Gun (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html), Elecia Battle (who sez she lost the ticket) has a history of criminal behavior in her past, plus if you read her rationale for ostensibly picking the numbers she did, her story begins to not check out. E.g. she has a sone who's 23, so she "turns the numbers around" to get 32, but why not just pick 23?

And I've read that the winner who stepped forward has a "receipt" for the ticket, but I don't know if that means she has a receipt for goods bought at the store or an actual receipt for the lottery ticket. So, the odds of her going to the store and finding both of these things in the area seem pretty small.

I'm going with the convicted criminal lying here, but you almost have to admire the stones it takes to file a police report and then continue with a lawsuit...

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't really care that she has a criminal history. i think that if she dropped it, she's a huge idiot and she doesn't deserve to win.

although the facts are a little confusing to me. like had the lottery commission already announced that the winner had been sold at the mini mart when elica made the claim? or did she go to the police before that? because if it was before that, i guess it makes her story a little more believable...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Finders keepers, thats what I say. Tough shit.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

agreed, unless she can prove it obv. - but even then it's up to the finder, not some stupid court of law

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet she settles.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

After reading that little thing on the smoking gun i have to agree that she is completely full of shit.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

still, I smell a settlement!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

because if it was before that, i guess it makes her story a little more believable...

In what dimension? Sounds like Elicia has a simple case of sour grapes; she's a fool that is kicking herself for being clumsy. A criminal history never stopped anyone from cashing in to possible chi-ching (Michael Milken, speak up).

Someone on a talk show said she would have had a better case for court if she'd signed it, otherwise she's stuffed. (That's WHY they have all those rules on the back.) She just wants to grab her 15 seconds, it sounds like.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I shop at that store where the lottery ticket was sold!! That should've been me with the winning ticket.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

If it was, would you still be here?;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd buy my own message board and post nothing but Jan and Dean lyrics all the live long day! So long suckers!!!

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What, no mansion, country or 20 foot limo? Where the hell are your priorities?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be doing it for the kids.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oh im sorry lawrence but i bought that messageboard a long time ago and it got lost in cyber space. I chose Jan and Dean because my kids names are Naj and Nead.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

another dream dashed, another hope drowned. won't come back from dead mans curve.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

shge's a moron

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, she's a moron, and a liar, too:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040108/D7VUP7IO0.html

"Battle said she wanted to use the money to help her family and recently laid-off Cleveland police officers. She apologized to Jemison, her lawyer and her husband."

Yeah, I'm sure she was going to use the money to help recently laid-off police officers. No, really.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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