Mega Millions ‘winner’ a loser of winning ticket
Imagine the joy of winning millions in the lottery.
Mirlande Wilson, center, will be able to afford even fancier hats if she finds the 'misplaced' winning Mega Millions ticket. (AP Photo)
Now imagine losing that winning ticket.
Now imagine lying about everything to any reporter who will listen.
That would seem to be the case of alleged Mega Millions winner Mirlande Wilson, 37, of Maryland, who’s claimed to have won a third of the world record $656 million lottery jackpot.
As you’ve doubtless read before, Wilson refused to share her presumptive millions with her McDonald’s co-workers, whom she had purchased tickets with in a pool.
Wilson, a Haitian immigrant and mother of seven, quit her fast-food gig by calling in to tell her former friends she was a millionaire and would not be sharing because she purchased the winning ticket separately from the office pool.
Today, NBC News reports Wilson has “misplaced” the ticket.
When asked if she was a teller of tall tales, Wilson told NBC “I did not make up no story to get no attention.”
Even her own attorney has never seen the alleged winning ticket, which makes me wonder about his mental state as much as his client’s.
So far, winners in Kansas and Illinois have yet to step forward. Baltimore must be full of tricksters — another man there claimed to have been the Maryland winner, but it was a cruel joke that made his mother cry instead of laugh.
Maryland lottery officials are urging people who bought tickets to check their numbers again to make sure they don’t have the winner. The fear is that the real winner may have thrown out a ticket worth millions because they thought someone else had already won the big prize.
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April 6th, 2012
4:38 pm
I feel sorry for the real winner in that area, this Hate-ian is going to put a McLien on anyone with the ticket even if it is a pool of GOP/FBI jer-ks.
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April 6th, 2012
4:39 pm
Those seven kids are running, scooting, jumping, farting, walking, and yelling in that house. Why would anyone working at McDonalds lift and spread to birth seven kids?
Contractor
April 6th, 2012
4:44 pm
You can only laugh at this situation. The woman is lucky enough to win over $200 million dollars, has the nerve to tell her co-workers she isn’t sharing a penny with them (even when they may have rights to it if indeed she actually bought the winning ticket alone), and then this idiot loses the ticket. I am wondering if she is still trying to claim this prize, and that the lottery owes her this money? Boy, you just can’t get any more dumb than this. I guess some people are just born to lose and live in mediocrity/failure. Nah, I just think it’s the choices she has made that allowed for something like this to actually happen, instead of being organized and educated about her decisions. Thanks for the laugh, because this is pretty great.
Courtney
April 6th, 2012
4:45 pm
Deport her as$ back to Haiti. We do not need the likes of her in this country.
TK1
April 6th, 2012
4:47 pm
Mirland to Mc Donald Mgr over phone: “Ummm Sir, I was wondering if I can have my old job back?”
Mgr: “Sure Come on down, you were always a good worker”
Mirland: “Are you serious? thank you very Much, you will not regret this, see you in 10 minutes”
Mgr over heard in back round Yelling at Ashton Kutcher: “Ashton! Hurry up you and the camera crew go hide, she’s on her way down!”
TK1
April 6th, 2012
4:48 pm
LOL
Ghost
April 6th, 2012
4:49 pm
Call her what she is, a lying sack of crap. I knew from the beginning she never had the ticket.
TK1
April 6th, 2012
4:56 pm
@ Ghost: Correction- She never had the Mc Ticket (lol)
William J. Simmons
April 6th, 2012
5:01 pm
Trayvon be stoled my tiket
Billy
April 6th, 2012
5:05 pm
LOL, a low class liar and with a loudmouth lawyer to boot. Go back to McDonald’s, Mirlande; save up for that needful orthodontist work…