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Ohio Woman Claims She Lost Winning Ticket By JOE MILICIA, Associated Press Writer CLEVELAND - Using flashlights and braving the winter cold, several people scoured a convenience store parking lot in hopes of pouncing on a $162 million Mega Millions lottery ticket a woman claims she lost there. The free-for-all was sparked when Elecia Battle, of Cleveland, filed a police report saying she dropped her purse as she left the Quick Shop Food Mart last week after buying the ticket. She said she realized after the drawing Dec. 30 that the ticket was missing. After news of Elecia Battle's police report spread Monday night, people walked through snow and frigid temperatures to try to find the ticket in the store parking lot. "I decided to come back to see if I could find the winning ticket," said LaVerne Coleman, 57, who says she would keep the winnings if she found the ticket. Battle, 40, would not talk about the specifics of when she bought the ticket, how she lost it or even if she was a regular lottery player. She planned a news conference Tuesday to announce a reward. "I'm praying that someone finds the ticket, brings it forward and gets rewarded and from there we all live happily ever after," said Battle, who cried as she talked to The Associated Press at her home Monday night. Police say Battle was in tears when she came to the station Friday to file the report and did not hesitate when asked to write down the winning numbers. "We don't believe that she's fabricating it, but there's no real way of knowing other than going on her word," Lt. Kevin Nieter told Cleveland's WEWS-TV on Monday. Nieter said information Battle knew about when the ticket was bought and how the numbers were picked make her story credible. She told police that the numbers — 12, 18, 21, 32 and 46 and Mega Ball 49 — represented family birthdays and ages. The Ohio Lottery said the winning ticket was sold at the store in suburban South Euclid, about 15 miles east of Cleveland. The winning ticket was sold to someone who chose the numbers, not someone who let the machine pick. "To have something in your hand and have it slip out is a tough thing to swallow," said Elecia's husband, Jimmy Battle, who has two jobs. The couple have seven children, some from previous marriages. Nieter said the Battle family may be out of luck if someone else picked up the lone winning ticket for what was the largest lottery jackpot in state history. "Whoever has the ticket has the right to stake the claim to the winning jackpot. You can file all the police reports you want, but it's not going to help," he said. According to the police report, officers tried to see if Battle showed up on the store's surveillance cameras but the store owner said the cameras were broken. Ohio Lottery spokeswoman Mardele Cohen said that if someone else came in with the ticket, Battle could try to get a temporary restraining order in court to block the winnings from being paid. If the jackpot isn't claimed by June 27, the money goes to Ohio and 10 other states that participate in the game. |
I just heard on NPR that an Ohio woman has turned in the winning ticket to the Lottery Commission to claim the prize.....BUT ITS NOT ELECIA BATTLER! :eek: the lady that bought the ticket.
I was some lady that FOUND the ticket! :eek: Ohio laws states that whoever TURN IN the ticket gets the prize (not who bought the ticket). |
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Winner Claims $162M Lottery Ticket Said To Be Lost
POSTED: 7:21 a.m. EST January 6, 2004 UPDATED: 12:06 p.m. EST January 6, 2004 SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- The Ohio Lottery says a South Euclid woman turned in the winning ticket for a $162 million Mega Millions lottery, not the Cleveland woman who claims she lost the ticket last week. Rebecca Jemison turned in the ticket for the 11-state jackpot at Ohio Lottery headquarters in downtown Cleveland. She and her husband appeared at a news conference Monday morning to claim the prize. Jemison has a husband, Sam, and a 12-year-old daughter. Officials say Jemison is taking the lump-sum cash payout, worth about $95 million before taxes, which is worth $67.2 million after taxes. "I've been playing these numbers for approximately two years," Jemison said. But she said she only plays them when the jackpot is high. She told reporters, "I guess it paid off." She said she picked the numbers randomly. She said it took her so long to come forward because she's been working with an attorney and an accountant. "Luck had nothing to do with this, this was truly a blessing," Jemison said. Jemison said now that she's won the lottery, she's "going to Disneyworld." The announcement came after Elecia Battle, (pictured, left) said that she dropped the winning ticket in the parking lot outside the South Euclid store where she bought it. Jemison said she felt "anger" when she heard that someone else claimed to have bought and lost the winning ticket. She said she'll "let the authorities handle her." Battle told police she dropped her purse and didn't realize the ticket had fallen out until after the drawing. Police said it's too bad because whoever turns up with the ticket is considered the winner. Millionaire wanna-bes gathered outside the store Monday searching for the ticket. People looked under bushes and in trash. "For $162 million, yeah, it's worth being out here probably all night," said Jim Allen. However, Battle believes the ticket still belongs to her. "It's my ticket. I lost it. I will be more than glad to reward you," Battle said. Battle's attorney is expected to make a statement about the reward on Wednesday. After the final tally, officials said the ticket is worth $162 million and a one-time cash payment of $95 million. Battle said the numbers are significant in her life. 12-18 is her son's birthday. 32 is her other son's birthday reversed. 36 is year her sister was born. 49 is her husband's age. 21 was picked for luck. Copyright 2004 by NBC4.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed |
If I found the ticket, I would return it. I would pray that she would bless me with a portion of it but I would return it. It would be hard as all get out but I would return it.
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Ms. Jemison, who has the ticket, also has proof that she has played the same numbers in the past.
From another message board: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/st...OSTP&SECTION=US She says that winning was not luck, it was a blessing! (I too would tithe!) |
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I would return the ticket, but I DEFINITELY would work with a lawyer and have a contract drawn up which stipulates a percentage that she would have to give me. Because in all fairness, the old saying still stands, "Finders keepers, losers weepers." Just because she says that she will give someone a reward, she doesn't have to follow through. Even if she does come through, what if it's like fifty dollars or something? No way! I think I would flip out on the person!
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OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — Police charged a woman Friday with stealing 50 antique glass eyes from a hospital display case on Christmas Eve. Melissa Jane Wink, 36, of Owensboro, was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $300. A surveillance camera recorded the theft from an exhibit of medical artifacts at Owensboro Medical Health System. A picture of the suspect was publicly released several days later. The eyes were valued at $2,500. The hospital had mistakenly reported the eyes were worth $100,000, which was actually the value of the exhibit collection. The eyes were recovered at a house Wink was staying in. Police Detective Ed Krahwinkel said he wasn't sure why someone would steal the eyes; there isn't high demand on the black market for them. "Honestly, I don't think she knew what to do with them," Krahwinkel said. "Being a high profile case — and a used item — I think she was stuck with them." The glass eyes were a gift to the hospital from Owensboro physician Barney Elliott, who bought the glass eyes from a dealer in South Carolina about 10 years ago. He said they were most likely made at the beginning of the 20th century or earlier. The eyes came in a variety of colors and even included bloodshot or jaundiced tints so they would match the wearer's other eye. "I'm glad to hear they're back," Elliott said. "It's a good display, and I think the public will enjoy them." |
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THIS LITTLE BOY would STIIIIILLLLL BE GETTING A WHOOPING!!!!!!
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Boy Stuck in Arcade Machine Appears on ABC's "Good Morning America" Email to a Friend Printer Friendly Version Timmy Novotny Photo courtesy: Sheboygan Press By Lisa Manna A seven-year-old boy and his Sheboygan family appeared on ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday to tell their side of a story that has a nation buzzing. He is the boy who got stuck inside a grocery store arcade machine. It was an act worthy of a Las Vegas magic show. While his dad was on a phone nearby, Timmy Novotny somehow squeezed inside a machine at a Piggly Wiggly supermarket last Sunday. Once he crawled through the small opening for dispensing stuffed animals, he realized the door only opened one way. He was stuck inside the glass enclosure. "I just wanted to go in there 'cause I thought I could slip back out, but I couldn't," Timmy explained. "I looked around and he was halfway in and his feet were sticking out," his father, Frank Novotny, recalled. Monday Timmy and his family left for New York City to be interviewed on Good Morning America on Tuesday. "I couldn't believe what I was hearing, because just to get in there in the first place was amazing. As you can see he's not really small, a two-year-old or a small kid," his mother, Gina Speckman, said. His mother now calls him "Little Houdini." Like all good magicians, Timmy won't reveal exactly how he squeezed through the eight-inch by ten-inch opening. He'll only say that he just wiggled in. The Sheboygan Fire Department is still baffled. "The locksmith came and in no time at all he was able to pick the lock and the entire front door opened up and he came right outside. Never in my 29 years have I seen anything like this," Mark Zittel of the Sheboygan Fire Department said. And likely he won't see it again. Timmy said he wasn't scared, even though he spent an hour in the glass case. But the first thing he did when he got out was ask to go to the bathroom. http://wbay.static.worldnow.com/images/1589771_BG1.jpg http://wbay.static.worldnow.com/images/1589771_BG2.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` I wOOOOOOsh my child WOULD!!! |
Hey, how do you wind up azz-out in the Piggly-Wiggly?
I'm glad it worked out and little man is safe, but you KNOW if his name woulda been "Rashaan", they'd still be frisking him for toys from the machine before they let him go home. ;) |
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After reading the last 10 posts, I am officially done.
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This was naturally front page in the Metro insert in our paper today, as Sheboygan (sheh-boi-gan) is not too far from Milwaukee. You'll be pleased to know that little Timmy got no toys from the machine, and trust me - no Rashaan would be going up to Sheboygan, they aren't friendly to folks with melanin there.
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Burglar Delivers Himself to House in Box
Wed Jan 7,10:32 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - A young Colombian thief hid in a parcel delivered to a wealthy home but his planned burglary went wrong when suspicious security guards called in bomb disposal experts, police said on Tuesday. Guards at the condominium in the city of Medellin feared the strange, heavy package dropped off by a private vehicle could explode and phoned for help in Monday's incident, a police spokesman said. Police got a shock when a hand holding a knife punched through the cardboard as the panicked thief shouted he could not breathe. LMAO LMAO LMAO Police unpacked the parcel to find the gasping 24-year-old criminal, together with a gun, ropes and a ski mask. The house's owners fired their maid, to whom the box had been addressed, police said, although she has not been charged with being an accomplice. |
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This man got squished by his magazine collection. :eek: COLLECTORS SQUISHED by Ben McGrath Issue of 2004-01-12 Posted 2004-01-05 In retrospect, it almost has the ring of a creative-problem-solving challenge: can you fit more than fifty industrial-size trash bags’ worth of junk in a ten-by-ten room? As we now know, thanks to Patrice Lumumba Moore, the answer is yes—but barely. Moore, who is forty-three, returned from the corner store on the Saturday after Christmas and squeezed, as usual, past the nearly barricaded door to his tiny but stuffed-to-the-ceiling Bronx apartment, which implausibly housed perhaps the city’s largest and most varied private collection of magazines: Advertising Age, Ebony, Harvard Business Review, Penthouse. Moments later, he heard an ominous noise overhead. It was the beginning of a domestic avalanche. “Books were falling everywhere, and I tried to catch some—that’s where I cut my knees,” Moore recalled last week, from a bed in the intensive-care unit at St. Barnabas Hospital. “I had crates up top. Had my books in crates—you know, them metal crates. I’m lucky I was standing up. If I was down, I’d have been crushed. So I’m a lucky guy.” Moore was trapped by his own abundant belongings for two days, before a team of neighbors and firemen, with the help of a crowbar, rescued him, and discovered that he was not merely an eccentric pack rat; he had apparently never thrown anything out. “Compulsive hoarding” was how the Times described Moore’s behavior. “Disposophobia” is Ron Alford’s preferred term. “It’s an affliction, it’s really a disease,” Alford said last week. “It starts in the head of the people and manifests somewhere on the floor and on horizontal surfaces in their dwelling units.” Alford, who is sixty-three, runs Disaster Masters, Inc., a Queens-based “crisis management” service specializing in, among other things, abnormal clutter. He is the author of such articles as “How to Manage Your Disaster Recovery Misery Index” and “Counter-Terrorism for Consumers Against Big Business with Strategic Media,” and he is now at work on a book called “Disposophobia: The Fear of Getting Rid of Stuff.” Alford had recently returned from an emergency decluttering mission in San Francisco. “A guy’s wife left him,” he explained. “She moved out of the house because the bed couldn’t be used, you know, for its intended purpose.” Now, thanks to Ron, the couple was back together. As for Moore’s case, Alford was unimpressed. “Oh, it’s chump change,” he said. “I’m not being derogatory about it. It’s just that this is what I do for a living. What doctors do for broken bones and stuff I do for people who suffer massive clutter.” He paused a moment, then added, “And I only deal with people who are at least a 5-plus on the Clutter Scale.” (Alford assigns all potential clients a score between 1 and 10, using photographic evidence.) “I’m on my way to the Lower East Side right now to go look at a project where this gal is up to her armpits in stuff,” he said. “And she just doesn’t know how to deal with it, but we do. We know that the National Geographics are never going to be worth anything.” To those less familiar with today’s messmakers, Moore called to mind Homer and Langley Collyer, the Hermit Hoarders of Harlem, who in 1947 were discovered dead in their Fifth Avenue mansion amid a hundred and eighty tons of car parts, musical instruments, newspapers, and orange peels. The Collyers, though, were famously shy of publicity. Not so Patrice Moore. “Is there big money in this?” he asked hopefully, still on his back, covered by a hospital blanket. “It’s a big story, right?” A St. Barnabas staffer had just promised to make copies of Tuesday’s Post for him—the headline was “bookworm squished.” “Fifty bags,” Moore said, shaking his head. “There’s still more. I got some stuff in the closet. I don’t know if they checked the closet.” He amassed his collection of magazines, he explained, simply by calling up circulation departments and requesting subscriptions—which he never paid for. “Essence, In Style—they know me,” he said. “All the magazines know me. Vogue. Vogue know me, too. Lucky.” Moore was hoping to stay on at St. Barnabas for another week. He was enjoying the bedside visits: “I thank all the magazines, all the newspapers.” When he got out, he said, he was planning to use his newfound fame to jump-start a rap career. “I do beat box,” he said. He closed his eyes and began making a series of percussive noises with his mouth. A hospital employee came in to see if everything was O.K. “I learned that from Biz Markie and Doug E. Fresh,” Moore said. He was less clear about his future hoarding plans. “I retired from the books” was all he’d say. “The books almost got me.” Should he run into trouble, he might give Disaster Masters a call. Ron Alford offers one-on-one coaching, including diet modification and even hypnosis. “We give them some serious mental tools to use so that they don’t repopulate their place with a bunch of s***,” Alford said. http://www.nypost.com/photos/news12300307.jpg |
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