Mega Millions winner won’t share with McD’s co-workers
McDonald’s workers in Baltimore are serving Unhappy Meals today after a co-worker, who claims to have won a third of the world record $656 Mega Millions lottery jackpot, says she won’t be sharing.
Stephen Martino, director of the Maryland Lottery, speaks to reporters outside a Baltimore 7-11 store where Wilson purchased tickets. (AP Photo)
The New York Post reports that Mirlande Wilson, 37, says she has a winning ticket, but that she bought it with her own money, not that of her co-workers, who had pooled their resources in an attempt to win the big Friday prize.
“We had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The ‘winning’ ticket] wasn’t on the group plan,” Wilson told the Post.
Winning tickets were sold in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas.
According to the article, Wilson ran the McDonald’s office pool that fateful day, getting $5 from 15 co-workers. She purchased the pool tickets and left them at the restaurant in a safe place, according to the article.
Just before closing shop Friday evening, however, the owner of the fast food restaurant says he gave Wilson another $5. Wilson bought more tickets after leaving work and took them home, but she claims the winning ticket was not purchased with the final $5 contribution.
After Wilson called in to work Saturday to say she’d no longer be peddling fried taters, a couple of co-workers went to her home and beat on the door until she answered.
“These people are going to kill you. It’s not worth your life!” said one after she opened the door.
As of Monday afternoon, no one had claimed the prize, worth an estimated $105 million after taxes.
Wilson may be fibbing. When pressed to produce the winning ticket she told the newspaper “I don’t know if I won. Some of the numbers were familiar. I recognized some of [them].”
The McDonald’s owner declined to comment except to say, “It’s all [BS], if you ask me. It’s speculation.”
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April 2nd, 2012
3:20 pm
As messed up as it is Possession is 9/10’s of the law! This is why our office scanned our tickets and all who participate get copies. Greed is something else!!!
Robyn
April 2nd, 2012
3:26 pm
if she bought her own separate ticket later then they’re not going to make her pay, if the money was won from one of the groups tickets then she’ll have to share, that’s it, if she won on her own it’s her own money
Nothie
April 2nd, 2012
3:33 pm
Enter your comments here
prettygurl1908
April 2nd, 2012
3:50 pm
Wow! Really now!??? She works at McDonald’s for minimum wage; seven darn children who the state pays for; and she lives in squalor (according to the article)? Ugh, I’m so over the underclass and their foolish mentality. Boo Boo, technically, your foolish tail should first have to pay the State of Maryland the thousands that you have received in food stamps, medicaid, welfare checks, and subsidized housing and any other assistance that you have gotten since you started having that litter of children. Second, you need stop moving your lips because you are a liar on a whole other level! See, this is why stupid people should not win large amounts of money because if she had any sense, she would realize that her share is roughly seven million dollars. Now color me stupid, but 7 million is way more than the “fry girl” is making now…hell, it is way more than I’m making now and I have 2 college degrees! I’m just saying ya’ll!
The MAN
April 2nd, 2012
3:53 pm
Child please..I’m tard of people being greedy…she could at least take them to Goodwills and get em some new threads!! She stingiee!!
Super Tex
April 2nd, 2012
3:54 pm
If she doesn’t share her winnings, she will regret it, its all about the conscious, you can live with it, but it wont let you live without it. So with that said BOO YOU DODO!!!
C
April 2nd, 2012
3:54 pm
I think Spike Lee should publish this person’s address on Twitter so we can all personally tell her where to stuff that ticket.
OMG
April 2nd, 2012
4:05 pm
What do you expect from the “fry guy” at a McDonald’s? She’s a piece’o work.
It’s obvious she’s lying … she called in to say she quit, but doesn’t know if she has the winning #s? How stupid does she think her pool group is….
This is a prime example of greed at its worst.
tina
April 2nd, 2012
4:14 pm
When u are in a group lottery pool, make copies of all tix for the pool and give said copies to all participants. that way everyone will know what numbers belong to the group. go one step further. on back of group tix, write GROUP LOTTERY POOL. on the back of your own tix, sign your name. that will stand up in a court of law.
work pool
April 2nd, 2012
4:23 pm
I’m the coordinator for the work pool at the office. Everyone always waits until the last minute to give me money, so I’m buying tickets on my way home and am unable to make copies which frustrates me. Anyway, to avoid this type of conflict, I always bought the tickets for the work pool at one of 2 gas stations enroute to work or home. At either 7 AM or 5 PM. I would have the hubby buy our personal tickets at a gas station completely off my route at a time that I would be in the office. That way if my personal ticket hit, I would be able to prove it wasn’t a work ticket. You can successfully coordinate a work pool and have personal tickets. You just need to be smart about it.