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I am  laughing sooooo haarrrd  tears are actually rolling down my cheeks.....;..) U R  No Good...I can't stopppp laughing....;...)

The lottery rules should not be like that because if Sharon Duncan originally purchased the ticket and did not realize it was a winner they should also be able to see that on the

video tape footage at the store as well. Lisa Petriches is a liar she was just probably suprise that Mrs. Jones pulled the ticket out of the bin and it was actually a $1million winning ticket.

This Mrs. Jones lady is just greedy I think that Mrs. Jones and Sharon Duncan should split it because rightfully Mrs. Duncan purchased the ticket ask yourself this question.

Would you walk away from the $1million prize if you were Sharon and you purchase the ticket with your money and be honest? 

Do you think Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Jones should split the ticket because Lisa is out of it she is just a greedy worker.

Thanks for the feedback libra926! Now only 58 day's to go, and we can mail that check back to the deserving soul who has been waiting so patiently.

I agree.  I also believe the store manager is a liar.  She needs to be fired.  Let the lady who picked up discarded property enjoy her good luck.  If you bought a winning ticket but threw it away, you threw it away.  You did not want it.  You don't get to claim its your just because you changed your mind after the fact.

People take tickets out of the garbage everywhere they have 2nd Chance Drawings and all the managers and employees know it. It saves them the work of hauling them out and the expense of more garbage bags.

Jones and her husband had been doing this for awhile and it's doubtful that management didn't know about it.

Now, they just have to deal with all the scammers and whiners who always come out of the woodwork.

I think common sense will prevail in this case unless the judge is a lib.

Sharon Duncan bought the ticket.  She threw it away.  Period.   There is no splitting it.  She did not want it.  She took her chance, she halfway scratched, trying to be clever and quick, she threw it away.  Sharon Duncan thought it was a losing ticket.  She does not get to a second chance because she threw away a losing ticket which turned out to be a winner.

This is not a case of someone who played for twelve years in an office pool and the one drawing they don't play because it was a choice between food on the table or lottery tickets, the pool won.   No splitting.  It belongs to Jones.

I agree with you that Lisa Petriches is a liar, though.   What a piece of work.   Sometimes I feel badly for attorneys.  They are required to represent their clients, even if their clients scum.  Then I remember they're attorneys, and they don't have to take on a case if they don't want to, so they figure there must be a chance at a payday for themselves in all this, so forget the attorneys, too.

Thanks TheRightPrice,

When youy boil it down to the core, it's a no brainer. 

It comes down to ticket purchaser Sharon Duncan.  The article and video don't indicate if Sharon Duncan used this "Super One Stop" lottery computer to scan this scratch off ticket that she had purchased -- either at this Super One Stop or a different Lottery Retailer.

If Sharon Duncan had indeed had her ticket scanned at the Super One Stop, and the scanner indicated that her ticket was "Not A Winner," then Sharon Duncan should ALSO be given the $1M prize from the Arkansas Lottery Headquarters.  Fortunately the store had a camera and that camera had working film in it.  That's a rarity, it's expensive.

Additionally, the Lottery Headquarters should repair any of their other MIS-DIRECTING lottery reader machines at all of their additional lottery retailer's stores.

I noticed that this article and video don't state if the trash bin was located inside or outside of the Super One Stop.  I think it is okay, in the future, for a store's inside bin to be changed to "Don't remove tickets."  And for, perhaps, a store's manager to have an agreement with the store's owner to be allowed to keep those discarded tickets (though I believe that the store's other employees won't necessarily go out of their way to enforce the sign's demand to store's greedy customers and/or visitors who are willing to pretend that they can't read and respect rules).

very true , i didnt pick up that the ticket may have been scanned and that it reported being a loser. so may have been discarded as a fault of the scan/ printing, or indeeed the incomplete dscratching of latex repoting it as a loser when infact it was a winner.

maybe the person scratches the rubber off the  bar code area until it scans to check and doesnt bother with the rest of the ticket.

remeber the garbage divers didnt know it was a winning ticket either, so  the lotto must make rather cryptic looking winners.

"It's whoever comes to the lottery claims office with their signature on the back". The problem is that the court system keeps allowing people to have these bogus lawsuits. Granted there might be a few out there that have merit but you know what, thats the original ticket purchasers fault. If someone is dumb,careless, stupid etc to not keep track of any lottery ticket(scratchoff, mega, powerball, etc) and not verify it from MULTIPLE sources, and lose it misplace it, allow someone else access to it, or (the one that takes the cake!) handing it over to a stranger to check to see if its a winner.............you deserve to lose winning the prize. The courts need to quit letting these things happen and take the same position as the lottery, whoever signs it gets to claim the prize.   And to the person that found those two twenty dollar bills in the supermarket parking lot last week, you need to return them because its in no way my fault that I left the zipper open on my jacket....LOL

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    The one who signs it and turns it in  has the right to receive the check.

Mrs. Sharon Jones rightfully yours!!!