Very sad story.... $35,000/yr. net is good money. 

as Redd Foxx would say [may he RIP] "YOU BIG DUMMY!" why in the hottest of hell would you buy a ticket and NOT check it? I got some nerve, I take my 'knowingly losing' tickets and STILL insist my local corner store clerk check it - we go through it all the time him "Sandy, this ticket clearly is not a winning ticket!" -- me "just check it! you never know!" ..
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Whoevers ticket it was, is going to lose out on a nice amount of money.

The largest unclaimed Oregon Lottery prize ever was a $3.5 million Megabucks jackpot for a ticket purchased in Tualatin in June 1996.

Tualatinouttaluck hehehehehe.

It would be great if they put up this story a month or two after the ticket won, to give the winners more opportunity to know there's an unclaimed ticket floating around and lessen the chance that it got discarded. One time I saw a stray Mega ticket *under a parked vehicle* and *at night* at a local Supermarket and out of sheer curiosity reached under and took it and saw it was for an *upcoming* drawing and I turned it in at the Courtesy desk but I remembered the numbers and turned out it *matched 3 of 5*! I don't know if the person who lost it ever got it back. 

I have all of mine scanned.   Just incase it turns into a winner after I check it.

Smart person!  Then again, maybe too smart. History has shown that the dumber you are the greater your chances of winning a large amount.  This stary proves the theory is 100% correct.  Only an idiot would buy a ticket, not know how to read it, loose it, or just forget they bought it.  Those are exactly the type you see stand in front of the press and plan on buying a refrigirator with a $250M jackpot!  I-D-I-O-T-S !  These are the same persons who drive into store front windows.  They pre-plan nothing.  Anything beyond the length of their nose are beyond their perception.