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Woman who tossed $1M lotto ticket wants money


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Updated: 5/21/2012 2:15 pm Published: 5/21/2012 2:14 pm

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) — Attorneys for an Arkansas woman who threw away a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million say another woman who plucked the ticket out of the trash and claimed the jackpot should be forced to turn the money over to the court.

Sharon Duncan's lawyers filed their formal request Monday, three weeks after a judge ruled that the money belongs to her, not Sharon Jones, who picked the ticket out of the trash.

Duncan's lawyers also said any vehicles or property purchased with the prize money should be seized and impounded.

Jones has said she bought a new pickup truck and gave her kids some of the $680,000 in prize money they received after taxes.

Jones' lawyers did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

 

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sparrowhawk60 - 5/21/2012 8:56 PM
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I agree with everyone else "finder's keepers loser's weepers" it's a lottery ticket. Maybe they could just share it atleast.

protector20 - 5/21/2012 5:08 PM
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She sounds like the type that would rip the shirt of your back if she thought you used "her" lottery money to buy it. People like this are too stupid to be protected by the courts. Hopefully some appellate judges will reverse the yahoo who ruled this way.

shorty loc - 5/21/2012 3:47 PM
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TO THE LADY WHO THREW THE WINNING TICKET "IN THE TRASH" YOU REALLY DONT DESERVE TO HAVE THE MONEY BECAUSE OF YOUR NEGLECT TO LOOK AT THE TICKET TO MAKE SURE WHETHER YOU WON OR NOT. SO ITS FINDERS KEEPERS LOSERS WEEPERS! HAHA LOL MRS. JONES SPEND THAT MONEY BEFORE THEY CAN TAKE IT FROM YOU BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T DESERVE IT ANYWAY
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