Cafe worker finds $100,000 lottery ticket

[rainbow4321]

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Karrie Jeremiah pulled a discarded lottery ticket from a restaurant trash can and hit the jackpot.

Two other people had purchased the $5 Hoosier Lottery scratch-off ticket last week at the Chaperral Cafe. When a clerk at the downtown cafe told them it wasn't the $40 winner they were hoping for, they threw it away, lottery officials said. It wasn't a $40 winner - it was a $100,000 winner.

Lottery security director Ellen Corcella said the cafe clerk had not checked for any winning combinations other than for $40. Lottery officials on Feb. 10 issued Jeremiah a check for $71,600 - the amount after taxes were withheld.

Mark McNeely, an attorney for cafe owner Shirley Bailey, said lottery officials had been negligent by not providing adequate training. "Let's focus on the real issues and not try to cast all of our blame on this little merchant here in Shelbyville when the lack of training may have been the issue that caused the problem to begin with," he said.

[GregW]

1. Shelbyville?!? Now they can build a monorail!

:evilgrin:

[msanthrope]

2. Monorail! Monorail!

Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken!
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken.
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!

[flygal]

4. This is why I love this site!!

Like minds :toast:

[Squatch]

3. What are the odds of that happening?

:evilgrin: