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Three Women Vying for Ownership of $1 Million Lottery Ticket

A winning $1 million lottery ticket picked out of a gas station trash can has become the subject of a three-way legal battle in Arkansas.

Sharon Jones was at a Super One Stop in July 2011 in Bebee, Ark., when she went to a trash bin to pick up a handful of discarded lottery tickets, as she had done many times before, according to her attorneys.

A program through the lottery commission website allows people to register non-winning tickets for points that they can use to work towards prizes.

"On Sunday, as was a routine, my client and her husband sit around and enter these tickets in the program," Jones' attorney Winston Collier told ABCNews.com. "[The program] wouldn't give them points on this one ticket in particular."

The couple realized the problem was that the ticket was not completely scratched off.

"It was, in fact, not a losing lottery ticket and not only that, but it's worth a million dollars," Collier said. "Thus a controversy was born."

Jones turned in the ticket and received a check for $680,000. After the check was issued, the lottery commission began the process of confirming all winning tickets and in the course of the investigation, surveillance footage showed Jones grabbing a handful of discarded tickets from the trash bin.

After seeing the footage, the store manager, Lisa Petriches, claimed that customers were not allowed to take tickets from the bin and that she had a deal with the manager that those tickets belonged to her.

A month after Jones collected her check, Petriches filed a lawsuit against her, claiming that the winning ticket was hers. Petriches also claimed that there was a "Do Not Take" sign on the bin.

"We really don't believe that Lisa Petriches has any claim whatsoever," Jones' attorney Jimmy Simpson told ABCNews.com. "She's saying those tickets were hers, but you've got all these people saying they weren't."

Simpson said several regulars from the store are willing to testify that it was common practice for customers to grab tickets from the bin and that that sign was not up at the time when Jones picked up the winning ticket.

"Our theory is that it was abandoned property," Collier said. "Once someone has abandoned it, it becomes the property of the first possessor."

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A third party entered the equation this week when Sharon Duncan claimed that she was the one who originally purchased the ticket and that the jackpot is rightfully hers. The attorneys are meeing with the lottery commission on Monday to determine if there is any way to confirm the ticket's ownership.

Duncan could not be reached for comment.

Read the full story here: Three-Way Dispute Over $1 Million Winning Lottery Ticket in Arkansas - ABC News
 

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I hope she wins the suit. They are wrong as hell for trying to take the prize from her. They have no right to it.
 

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They betta get the fµck outta here :knife: . That's what I would tell them. How can you throw your ticket away and then come from left field talking about its mine :stop: and that store owner need to just fall back and wait for her little prize to come in the mail for selling the winning scratch off.
 

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if they threw it away they no longer have ownership of the ticket

Damn Money really is the root of ALL evil
 

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Why can't things like this happen to me?

OAN, the store owner & the original ticket holder needs to suck it. Once you throw something away it's no longer yours. If someone finds it and uses it you can't come back and sue & if there wasn't a sign outside the store that says you can't dig through the trash or claim trashed lottery tickets the store owner has no case. Why would the store owner sue anyway? Don't they get a percentage of the winnings for selling the winning litter ticket?
 

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They need to fall back. You trashed it. That meant you did not want it. What you talking about "I had a deal with the store?" That clerk needs to be slapped in the mouth.
 

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Why can't things like this happen to me?

OAN, the store owner & the original ticket holder needs to suck it. Once you throw something away it's no longer yours. If someone finds it and uses it you can't come back and sue & if there wasn't a sign outside the store that says you can't dig through the trash or claim trashed lottery tickets the store owner has no case. Why would the store owner sue anyway? Don't they get a percentage of the winnings for selling the winning litter ticket?

They identify her as "the manager" and say she had a deal with "the manager" to keep any discarded tickets. I think they meant she had a deal with the owner. Other customers say she's lying.

Anyway, I still say, "you snooze, you lose" to her salty butt. :arrogant:

After seeing the footage, the store manager, Lisa Petriches, claimed that customers were not allowed to take tickets from the bin and that she had a deal with the manager [Do they mean "owner"?] that those tickets belonged to her.
 

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Finders keepers - Losers weepers.

They need to kick gravel - forreal.
 

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People will come up with anything to try to get somebody's $$. And its not like someone dropped it and she picked it up. Bish dug it outta the trash. Its hers.
 

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This woman is going to end up spending all her prize money on lawyers to defend her prize. It was in the trash, she dug it up, the money is hers. The store owner/ manager and the "ticket owner" need to just accept the loss and move on.
 

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I hope the person who found it in the trash wins the suit. The people suing them knows that they are wrong!
 

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Nope, once you throw something away, its no longer yours, too bad so sad. I collect thrown away tickets as well because they can be used on my tax return to deduct any gambling costs I have proof of when/if I ever claim any large lottery win. One man's trash is TRULY another man's treasure, that saying couldn't be any more true than now.
 

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I never have understood how dumb mofos can spend money on lottery tickets and not check them properly to make sure they are not a winner! That fool that threw away the ticket is dumb and I hope the ticket finder keeps all the money!
 

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Possession is nine tenths of the law. It was discarded, she retrieved it . . . it's hers. This case is BS.
 

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The store clerk and original purchaser need to have seats. The original purchaser threw away the ticket, it's no longer hers -- simple as that. If it wasn't the winning ticket, neither one of them would be getting their clown on about it.
 
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FINDERS KEEPERS b!tches.

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I thought if you were an employee of the store that sold the ticket, you aren't allowed to collect any prize money?! Anyway, they need to GTFOH with that BS. Why are they even entertaining this bullshi especially the woman who says the ticket belonged to her. There is video of the winner fishing the ticket out of the trash! You lost out, boo! Suck it up!
 

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They know darn well whatever surveillance camera they had in some little convenience store didn't have a telephoto lens to zoom in on the numbers on that lotto ticket so the bearer is the only one that can prove the ticket is theirs by possession.
 

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Congrats to her. I always hold onto and triple check my scratch offs. I can go through a stack of them and find a winner or two.
 

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Shall steal win ain't nar mfer gonna know. Got a pink long wig, glasses, fake nose, and fake teeth ready. along with ssn phone number on lock.
 

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