By Todd Northrop
The final claim date is quickly approaching for the owner of a $250,000 second-tier Mega Millions ticket purched in Maryland at the end of March.
The ticket must be claimed by Friday, September 28, 2012 at 4:30 pm.
The winning ticket was from the $656 million Mega Millions drawing on Friday, Match 30, 2012, and was purchased at 7-11, located at 9709 Beaver Dam Road in Timonium.
The winning numbers for the March 30 Mega Millions drawing were 2, 4, 23, 38, and 46, with Mega Ball number 23. The unclaimed $250,000 winning ticket matched the first five numbers, but not the Mega Ball number.
If the $250,000 winning ticket is not redeemed by next Friday, it becomes a worthless piece of paper.
Somebody in Maryland better WAKE UP!!!
You got 1 week to cash a $250,000 check!!!
Check your pockets, desk drawers, check your purse, husbands
check your wife purse, wives check your husbands wallet, look
behind your ears!!!
Dang I wish they had lottery ticket sniffing dogs!!!
This is crazy to me. If you're going to the trouble of buying a ticket to win the lottery, how do you just misplace your tickets before verifying them???
It was probably a ticket bought while passing through. Thrown in the glove box. Thrown away when cleaning out the glove box.
I'm hoping that the owner cashes on time or the ticket is never found and the owner never knows they won because it would hurt hurt hurt
Probably was won by someone who so disappointed at coming so close to winning the largest jackpot ever that they weren't interested in collecting a mere $250K.
Can you blame them? I would be ashamed and humiliated to come so close. Better to just let that $250K roll back into the next jackpot.
Not much you can do with that chump change nowadays anyways.
It happens when someone frequently buys tickets and cant keep them sorted out. lol. lol.
Or the car was wrecked and sits permanently in the wrecking yard. Talk about bad luck???
Was thinking about the thread 4 hrs. ago when I was digging through my garage trashbag looking for a receipt,
the receipt you need is always the one you can't find,
now is there a way to turn that into a winning formula ?
I throw receipts away all the time so finding one I need is like winning the lottery. lol. lol.
Thats kinda like what i was getting at,
the elusive ticket, is like the
elusive receipt, the one you're looking for.
Ashamed and humiliated to win $250,000??
$250,000 chump change??
GREED is an ugly thing!!!
I bet it was the lady who said she had the winning ticket...those McDonald's managers and employees might want to scour the restaurant she used to work! LOL
I am guessing the title should read "$250,000 Mega Millions ticket SOLD in Maryland expires next week"...now that is solid!
Nikki you have a very poor sense of humor. You need to get out more often, lighten up and let loose once in a while. Are you always so serious?
Wow!! So that winning ticket wasn't sold after all. Nice catch OSP.
Then what's all this fuss about?
There is no expiration on a solid ticket, that I'm aware of.
That's great news for the lucky ticket holder!
The owner of the winning ticket may have used one of those self checking machines that sometimes tell you that your ticket is NOT a winner.I think that the lottery's make a lot of extra money with those machines.
This happens a lot of time. Maybe the holder of this ticket forgot to check the winning numbers. I just hope that he/she would be able to get the prize before its to late.
To the person who win on this Mega Ball Ticket just about 7 month ago, go back to the purse , the wallet, the drawer , over the sunviser in your car, ect. It is time to backtrace. It would be ashame for the Maryland Lottery to get this money back.
They put it back in the prize pool.......... Dont they??
Yes, they put it back in the pool. But I'm not sure it the entire amount . I think it just a percentage of the win money.
Looks like the "solid" MM's ticket was myseriously transformed back to a "sold" ticket.
Must have been a bad dream, all is good now.
I never noticed a thing, so it was always a "sold" ticket to me ..... lol.
OldSchoolPa noticed the word solid earlier this morning, and the word suddenly and without warning, re-transmigrated itself back to sold.
Simply amazing how that works! They say God works in mysterious ways........and now I'm a firm believer.
Too funny mcginnin56, Im a believer also. Now if we can just get a wine dispenser that only require a water supply I think we will really be onto something......... (only the best wine though, please...)
But of course, only the best that money can buy. 20/20, Mad Dog, Thunderbird and Boone's Farm come to mind as some of the classics I have
sampled as a young lad. As a fine connoisseur of wine yourself, I'm sure you can immediately appreciate these world class vintages.
Ah yes, I was an MD man myself when I wasn't drinking the Schnapps.
Can always spot those MD men out of a crowd. They are the classiest, most savvy gentlemen on the planet.