North Carolina man hides $2 million winning lottery ticket using a microwave as a safe

Comment #12

PrisonerSix — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:05:14 GMT

The last line is sad but true.

Comment #11

KY Floyd — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:34:46 GMT

It becomes false advertising at that point.

Interesting theory, but I'm pretty sure the lotteries are immune from laws against false advertising. FWIW, I once talked to a lottery security department about an issue and as long as I had him on the phone I asked if there were any official rules about what happens if a store accidentally prints two identical tickets when you're trying to buy one. There are none, at least in PA, and he specifically told me they don't consider it fraud if a retai... [ More ]

Comment #10

Lotterologist — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:40:41 GMT

I agree!

As the Hindu saying goes,

A friend in need is a friend indeed, although of different caste;

The world will be your anxious friend as long as riches last.

By the way...

Congratulations to the winner!

I'm always happy for those who win the lottery

Comment #9

Ranett — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:31:58 GMT

Yeah, gold diggers.

No thanks.

Comment #8

Ranett — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:28:53 GMT

Good for him.

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Artist77 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:49:14 GMT

Sounds like a good and down to earth person won and he only wants to help his mother and fix up his home. His family priorities say a lot about him.

Comment #6

Lotterologist — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:29:20 GMT

A man, his dog, and his mother...sounds pretty lonely.

Now that he's wealthy, he'll have a lot more friends in his life

Comment #5

noise-gate — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:34:48 GMT

* Perhaps his 4 legged friend cashed his last ticket and left the store with top of the line prime rib.

Comment #4

dickblow — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:39:08 GMT

who knew

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shy1979 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:37:49 GMT

The last item saying that players can still win the 2 nd and 4 th tier prizes while the games is still active gets me.

Long ago, I lived in Oregon where they pulled the tickets after all the top prizes are claimed, because they can t have a game advertising a $2m top prize when there are no top prizes left to win. It becomes false advertising at that point.

I now live in Colorado, where they just don t care. They ll sell tickets as long as people buy them, regardless if there are any top... [ More ]

Comment #2

Loteriaplayer1 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:29:21 GMT

Bad move

Comment #1

Tony Numbers — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:14:58 GMT

The next news story is Man eats 2 million lottery tickets in chicken sandwich

North Carolina man hides $2 million winning lottery ticket using a microwave as a safe

Lottery Post — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:09:09 GMT

Winner uses kitchen appliance as a safe to protect it from someone in particular

By Kate Northrop

To protect a $2 million winning lottery ticket from a certain four-legged friend, one North Carolina man hid it in the safest spot he could think of his microwave.

A North Carolina lottery winner used his microwave as a safe to hide a $2 million winning ticket while he figured out his plans for claiming the prize.

Cristen Breton of Salisbury could not think of a safer place to put $2... [ More ]