Michigan man almost threw out winning $500,000 lottery ticket

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Bleudog101 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:46:09 GMT

Several years ago found a $200 ticket in the trash...took it to another store to cash in and some guy said it was his. Said came from Pilot, not here. Should have just ignored him. Anyway I still dumpster dive to find non-winners to put them in for secondary prizes.

Pilot can't put their new tickets in the almost depleted IGT machine. Asked the clerk about it last night and said they have to get something from Corporate. Has something to do with security obviously, so if someone like that clo... [ More ]

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Tony Numbers — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 03:00:24 GMT

I'm gonna start going through the garbage!! That's where the winning tickets ate

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Mata Garbo — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:59:55 GMT

Where I used to live there was a lady who would go up and down the main roads every evening before the stores closed and collect as many losing tickets from inside the stores as she could get. My state has a system set up where you can replay losing tickets online and win big prizes. I can imagine her picking up the Jumbo Cash ticket that this guy threw away. No one would ever see her again.

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Bleudog101 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 01:20:37 GMT

Phenomenal payout for a FIVE dollar ticket...had to do double take.

Glad the ticket was checked again and Congratulations.

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noise-gate — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 01:20:08 GMT

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Michigan man almost threw out winning $500,000 lottery ticket

Lottery Post — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:57:54 GMT

It was worth a second glance

By Kate Northrop

Always double-check your tickets is probably what one lucky Michigan man would tell any lottery player after he nearly threw out a winning scratch-off ticket worth $500,000.

A Grand Rapids player thought he held a losing lottery ticket, but a second glance saved him from making a decision that would have cost him $500,000.

The player, who chose to remain anonymous, stopped at the Meijer gas station on Wilson Avenue Northwest in Gran... [ More ]