Winning $4.86 million lottery ticket recovered from store garbage

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CASH Only — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:19:41 GMT

Jimmy:Do you remember Hearts Diamonds, which was QP only

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JimmySand9 — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:16:44 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by CASH Only on March 20, 2005 I bet few pick their own cards for Quinto.I would. I'd pick all five plays.

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CASH Only — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:15:04 GMT

I bet few pick their own cards for Quinto.

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Maverick — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:24:02 GMT

Wow I saw this news 2 days ago at seattlepi. I would give the persons who found the tickets a nice tip

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ayenowitall — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:44:24 GMT

Thank goodness for Quick Picks! You just can't beat dumb luck. It's a good thing Mrs Garcia didn't outsmart herself by trying to convert those fortune cookie numbers into playing card symbols. That's probably what I would have tried to do.aye

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MADDOG10 — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:48:12 GMT

great ending to a good story.. thats what it's all about folks, helping others...

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dvdiva — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:36:00 GMT

No kidding. One wonders if she was kind enough to give the guy some cash. It would have been all to easy to cash a blank ticket in the trash.

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DoctorEw220 — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:14:52 GMT

if i were the winner, i'd tip the clerk generously.

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CASH Only — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:34:15 GMT

Jimmy:No other lotto game consists of all playing cards.

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JimmySand9 — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:18:33 GMT

No other pick-5 game can boast such a large jackpot.

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tg636 — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:46:45 GMT

Nice to have a lost ticket story that doesn't end with knuckleheads and greedy idiots suing each other. > I'm so used to being poor that I don't know what to do with this much money, she said.She can give some of it to the store workers who got the ticket back for her.

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konane — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:36:19 GMT

Yet another fortune cookie win..... Good for her!!Double kudos for the clerk

Winning $4.86 million lottery ticket recovered from store garbage

Lottery Post — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:15:00 GMT

Being a good Samaritan may not pay off in money, but doing a good deed is reward enough for one store clerk who rescued a nearly $5 million lottery ticket from the trash and returned it to its rightful owner. It didn't even cross my mind to keep it. I just knew it was hers, said Sherry Brust, a customer service cashier at a Fred Meyer store in Port Orchard. I'm just that type of a person. ... I like to help people. Brust and another co-worker at the store sifted through a trash can last week a... [ More ]