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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142 comments Add your comment
Diane price
April 6th, 2012
2:37 pm
Greedy is a sin as well as lying. If i was a winner with the ticket, i will share with my McDouald workers
Even if i did buy the ticket on my own. Reason why its plenty to share and still have some left to take care of my (price) family. But if she won maybe she going back hometown with her $cash.
dandaman
April 6th, 2012
2:40 pm
“Wilson told NBC ‘I did not make up no story to get no attention’.”
Wow! A rare triple negative. Don’t she aint no nothing?!?!
THE JUDGE
April 6th, 2012
2:50 pm
Send her back to Haiti she is a LIAR because anyone in their right mind would have just claimed the money and ran if they had no intentions of sharing remember when someone wins its not made public she just wants ATTENTION because a single woman with 7 kids and she is waitng for what even if she shares she will still be RICH!!!
tc
April 6th, 2012
2:54 pm
one word: HAITIAN ! ! nuff said.
Samantha
April 6th, 2012
2:59 pm
Wow…She LOST the ticket? First she ‘claimed’ that she stored it inside of McDonalds, now she says she lost it…I don’t believe she ever had the ticket! I find it even harder to believe that if she did have the ‘winning’ ticket that she would actually hide it at her job! That is crazy!!! Think about it she NEVER produced the ticket! She was lying from the jump! I’m certain that those employees tore up that place searching for an invisible ticket! She has 7 kids and now she is out of a job because she lied! Wow…if a person did throw away their ticket because she claimed she won and they actually had the numbers….they are crazy! There is no way I would have done that!
Samantha
April 6th, 2012
3:02 pm
Diane price…I’m not trying to be funny, but DANG..DID YOU EVEN PASS BY A LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH BOOK IN YOUR LIFE? I’m just sayin’…
Look before I leap...
April 6th, 2012
3:10 pm
Samantha
April 6th, 2012
3:02 pm
Diane price…I’m not trying to be funny, but DANG..DID YOU EVEN PASS BY A LANGUAGE ARTS/ENGLISH BOOK IN YOUR LIFE? I’m just sayin’
Your over use of exclamation points and questionable use of ellipses disqualifies you from commenting on someone else’s grammatical style.
tom
April 6th, 2012
3:12 pm
Although this women is a loser the real loser is the stupid media that stumbles over themselves to get a story any story.
Truthpaste
April 6th, 2012
3:13 pm
If this doesn’t convince the brainless compassionates that our country needs REAL IMMIGRATION REFORM NOW, then all hope is lost for the survival of the USA. This is what happens when you take the world’s tired and poor, you really get lazy, stupid and entitled!
The American Dream is becoming a joke when you can lie, cheat and steal your way to obtain it.
Jessie Al Jacksonton
April 6th, 2012
3:16 pm
Wutta Liar you are a prime example of a Democratic mindless fool that can’t think for themselves and people like this fraud with the supposed ticket are a prime example of Democratic mind tricks and leaches not Tea Party Patriots. YOu know nothing about other party affiliations just the lies of Dumocrats. Tea Party people want limited government and more personal responsibility, better education for children and reform the tax structure. Welfare and Democrats want government expansion and control of everything you own.