$105million is all MINE: McDonald’s 労働者 scoops Mega Millions jackpot… but 辞退するs to 株 it with her 同僚s

  • Mirlande Wilson, 37, pooled money with 同僚s at Maryland burger 共同の
  • (人命などを)奪う,主張するs she bought one of the three winning tickets for herself
  • Winning numbers were 46, 23, 38, 4, 2, and 23

従業員s at a McDonald’s in Maryland are 乱暴/暴力を加えるd at a co-労働者 who (人命などを)奪う,主張するs she won a $105million Mega Millions jackpot which she is not planning on 株ing - にもかかわらず the fact they had pooled their money for tickets.

労働者s at the 急速な/放蕩な food 出口 bought a number of tickets together for the biggest 宝くじ in world history but Mirlande Wilson, 37, (人命などを)奪う,主張するs she 分かれて bought one of the three tickets 全国的な that will 分裂(する) a 記録,記録的な/記録する $656 million payout.

'We had a group 計画(する), but I went and played by myself. [The ‘winning’ ticket] wasn’t on the group 計画(する),' Wilson told The New York 地位,任命する.

Lucky winner? Mirlande Wilson, said she bought the winning ticket with her own money rather than the pooled money 
with co-workers at McDonald's in Maryland

Lucky 勝利者? Mirlande Wilson, said she bought the winning ticket with her own money rather than the pooled money with co-労働者s at McDonald's in Maryland

Not lovin' it: Davon Wilson, left, and Suleman Ousman Husein - McDonald's workers who were in the Mega Millions pool with 13 colleagues, including Mirlande Wilson

Not lovin' it: Davon Wilson, left, and Suleman Ousman Husein - McDonald's 労働者s who were in the Mega Millions pool with 13 同僚s, 含むing Mirlande Wilson

Not happy: The Maryland McDonald's wh
ere Mirlande Wilson works and took part in a pool for lotto tickets for Friday's Mega Millions Jackpot

Not happy: The Maryland McDonald's where Mirlande Wilson 作品 and took part in a pool for lotto tickets for Friday's Mega Millions Jackpot

Lucky store: The Millford 7-Eleven where Wilson said she bought the winning ticket with her own money and not the pooled money - it will received a cash bonus for selling one of the winning tickets

Lucky 蓄える/店: The Millford 7-Eleven where Wilson said she bought the winning ticket with her own money and not the pooled money - it will received a cash 特別手当 for selling one of the winning tickets

Mystery: The Milford, Maryland, 7-Eleven store is proudly displaying that they sold one of the winning tickets but the identity of the winner is not known

Mystery: The Milford, Maryland, 7-Eleven 蓄える/店 is proudly 陳列する,発揮するing that they sold one of the winning tickets but the 身元 of the 勝利者 is not known

'I was in the group, but this was separate. The winning ticket was a separate ticket,' the 選び出す/独身 mother of seven said as she and her fianc? left her home.

The Haitian 移民,移住(する) who has seven children (人命などを)奪う,主張するd she had hidden the winning ticket and would 現在の it to 宝くじ 公式の/役人s today.

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES...?

A Kansas man was struck by 雷 hours after buying three Mega Millions 宝くじ tickets on Thursday, 証明するing in real life the old 説 that a gambler is more likely to be struck 負かす/撃墜する from the sky than 勝利,勝つ the jackpot.

法案 小島s, 48, bought three tickets in the 記録,記録的な/記録する $656 million 宝くじ Thursday at a Wichita, Kansas grocery 蓄える/店.

On the way to his car, 小島s said he commented to a friend: 'I've got a better chance of getting struck by 雷" than winning the lot tery.

Later at about 9:30pm, 小島s was standing in the 支援する yard of his Wichita duplex, when he saw a flash and heard a にわか景気 -- 雷.

'It threw me to the ground quivering," 小島s said in a telephone interview on Saturday. 'It 肉親,親類d of 緊急発進するd my brain and gave me an 不規律な heartbeat.'

小島s said doctors 手配中の,お尋ね者 to make sure his heartbeat was 支援する to normal. He 苦しむd no 燃やすs or other physical 影響s from the strike, which he said could have been worse because his yard has a 力/強力にする line 政治家.

But later she started to backtrack 説 she wasn't sure whether she had won or not.

'I don’t know if I won. Some of the numbers were familiar. I 認めるd some of them,' she said. 'I don’t know why' people are 説 異なって. 'I’m going to go to the 宝くじ office today. I bought some tickets 分かれて.'

With winning tickets also sold in Illinois and Kansas, a 選び出す/独身 Maryland 勝利者 would get an after-税金 lump sum of $105 million, or $5.59 million a year for 26 years.

Wilson’s co-労働者s ― who make little more than $7.50 an hour ― are furious at her (人命などを)奪う,主張するs she bought the winning ticket with her own money.

'She can’t do this to us!' said Suleiman Osman Husein, a 転換 経営者/支配人 and one of 15 members in the pool. 'We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!'

A man identifying himself as the boyfriend of a McDonald’s 経営者/支配人 指名するd Layla, who was part of the pool, said Wilson bought tickets for the group at the 7-Eleven in Milford Mill, where the winning ticket was sold.

The group’s tickets ― along with a 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる) of those who 与える/捧げるd to the pool ― were left in an office 安全な at the 急速な/放蕩な food 出口, said the man, who gave only his first 指名する, Allen, as he stood next to Layla. She 拒絶する/低下するd to comment.

Empty: The Brooklyn, Maryland, home where Ms Wilson is thought to live with her seven children, though no one was home today when reporters called

Empty: The Brooklyn, Maryland, home where Ms Wilson is thought to live with her seven children, though no one was home today when reporters called

Store: Wilson told the New York Post she stopped by the Milford Mill 7-Eleven after work to buy tickets for herself with a friend and not with the pooled money from work

蓄える/店: Wilson told the New York 地位,任命する she stopped by the Milford Mill 7-Eleven after work to buy tickets for herself with a friend and not with the pooled money from work

Denise Metzger, manager of a store in Red Bud, Ohio where a winning ticket was bought, poses with a novelty cheque - but the store will get a real pay-out of $500,000

Denise Metzger, 経営者/支配人 of a 蓄える/店 in Red Bud, Ohio where a winning ticket was bought, 提起する/ポーズをとるs with a novelty cheque - but the 蓄える/店 will get a real 支払う/賃金-out of $500,000

Stephen Martino, director of the Maryland Lottery, speaks outside the 7-Eleven store in Baltimore where a winning ticket was bought

Stephen Martino, director of the Maryland 宝くじ, speaks outside the 7-Eleven 蓄える/店 in Baltimore where a winning ticket was bought

Then, late Friday, before the night’s 製図/抽選, the owner of the McDonald’s, Birul Desai, gave Wilson $5 to buy more tickets for the pool on her way home from work, and she went 支援する to the 7-Eleven and bought them, Allen said.

Wilson took those tickets home with her, Allen said.

But the mother-of-seven 主張するd yesterday that the (製品,工事材料の)一回分 with the winning ticket in it was bought 分かれて by her while she was with a friend.

によれば the 地位,任命する, when she 設立する out she had the winning ticket, she called coworkers and told them she - rather than they - had won.

Will lightning strike twice? Selling lottery tickets at the Baltimore store which produced a winner on Friday

Will 雷 strike twice? Selling 宝くじ tickets at the Baltimore 蓄える/店 which produced a 勝利者 on Friday

'I won! I won!' she told a 同僚.

McDonald's 労働者 Davon Wilson said he was there when Wilson called.

MEGAMILLIONS IN NUMBERS

Three - 勝利者s who matched six numbers

1.5 billion - Dollars spent on Mega Millions tickets

429 million - Dollars spent on tickets on Friday alone

161 - Number of people who matched five numbers and won $250,000

897 - Number of people who matched four numbers and won $10,000

18 - Times the jackpot rolled without a 勝利者, 主要な to Friday's 記録,記録的な/記録する of $640 million

12 million - 量 in dollars of this Tuesday's jackpot

100 million - Americans who played Megamillions

182 - Days the Maryland 勝利者 has to come 今後

365 - Days the Illinois and Kansas 勝利者s have to come 今後

20,000 - Times more likely to die in a car 衝突,墜落 than 勝利,勝つ the lotto

2,600 - Dollars 価値(がある) of tickets one man bought in Arizona

'She said, "Turn on the news". She said she had won. I thought it was a joke or something. She doesn’t seem like a person who’d do this,' he said.

Allen told the 地位,任命する he and Layla then went to Wilson's home to question her about the winning ticket. Though she first 辞退するd to come out, they banged on her door for 20 minutes until she finally relented.

'These people are going to kill you. It’s not 価値(がある) your life!' Allen said he told her.

'All 権利! All 権利! I’ll 株, but I can’t find the ticket 権利 now,' she said, によれば Allen.

A clerk at the 7-Eleven where Wilson bought the tickets said they believed it was a man who had bought the winning ticket and 疑問d that Wilson's story was 現実に true after 宝くじ 公式の/役人s reviewed the 蓄える/店’s CCTV (映画の)フィート数.

Carole Everett said they had no (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) about the Maryland 勝利者 and whether it was a man or a woman who bought the winning ticket.

She said: '権利 now, everything is just 憶測 and gossip. Until someone comes through that door and 手渡すs over the winning ticket we will not know who the 勝利者 is.'

If Wilson won, and if it was with a pooled work ticket, the 状況/情勢 would be very 類似の to that of New Jersey man Americo Lopes, who was 告訴するd by his former 同僚s after he (人命などを)奪う,主張するd he was the 単独の 勝利者 of a $38.5 million Mega Millions 宝くじ jackpot.

The five construction 労働者s say they and Lopes were members of a we ekly 宝くじ pool, each person 与える/捧げるing $2 and Lopes would buy the tickets.

He (人命などを)奪う,主張するd he played the 宝くじ both by himself and as a member of the pool and that the winning ticket in the November 2009 製図/抽選 was one he bought for himself.

Lopes chose the lump-sum 支払い(額) 選択 and received $24 million.

A woman buys Mega Millions lottery tickets at a shop on New York City's upper west side of Manhattan

A woman buys Mega Millions 宝くじ tickets at a shop on New York City's upper west 味方する of Manhattan

A 陪審/陪審員団 設立する that he wrongly 辞退するd to 株 the 宝くじ 勝利,勝つ with his friends and ordered that he 支払う/賃金 them $4million each.

The three jackpot-winning tickets were 購入(する)d in Red Bud, Illinois, Baltimore 郡, Maryland, and Kansas, where 明言する/公表する 宝くじ 公式の/役人s have said only that the ticket was sold in the northeast part of the 明言する/公表する.

In Illinois, the Chicago Tribune said a second jackpot 勝利者, who also has yet to step 今後, bought a quick-選ぶ ticket at a gas 駅/配置する and convenience 蓄える/店 in Red Bud, a community of about 3,700 in southwestern Illinois.??

There were also some big 反対/詐欺 solation prizes. 宝くじ 公式の/役人s said 161 ticket 支えるもの/所有者s won $250,000 each by matching the first five numbers, and 897 people won $10,000 by matching four numbers 加える the stand-alone Mega Ball.

The Maryland and Kansas 勝利者s are 許すd to remain 匿名の/不明の because of 明言する/公表する 法律s, but in Illinois, the 勝利者 has to be publicized. Though 宝くじ 公式の/役人s say they encourage 勝利者s to come 今後 and enjoy their 15 minutes of fame.

A donut shop 労働者 in California やめる his 職業 after winning $228,000 from Friday's draw.

It took Lazaro Ramos いっそう少なく than an hour to 手渡す in his 辞職 after he discovered he was の中で 29 Californians to match five of the six winning numbers in Friday's 製図/抽選.

He 計画(する)s to return to his home country Guatemala to open up his own restaurant.

The winning numbers in Friday night's 製図/抽選 were 02-04-23-38-46, and the Mega Ball 23.

CURSE OF THE LOTTERY WINNERS

Previous 宝くじ 勝利者s have 設立する that winning an 注目する,もくろむ-popping jackpot wasn't 正確に/まさに the dream come true they hoped it would be. In fact for some, it turned into a nightmare.

  • In 2006, トラックで運ぶ driver Abraham Shakespeare won a $31 million Florida 宝くじ prize. He was 報道によれば hounded by friends and 親族s asking for money. A year later, he was in 法廷,裁判所 defending himself from an 告訴,告発 of 窃盗 by a trucker who (刑事)被告 him of stealing the winning ticket from him. In 2008, his new girlfriend Dee Dee Moore stole $1.8million from him. He was 設立する dead on January 28, 2010, and police later 逮捕(する)d Moore for the 狙撃.
  • Jack Whittaker, a West Virginian who won $315 million in 2002, was robbed at a (土地などの)細長い一片 club すぐに after he won and then started drinking to 超過. He was 逮捕(する)d in 2003 for DUI. His granddaughter died of an 明らかな 麻薬 overdose すぐに after her boyfriend died under 類似の circumstances. In 2005 his wife 離婚d him and by 2007, he said his bank accounts were 大部分は empty. He told reporters: 'I wished I'd torn that ticket up.'
  • Rick Camat was one of 13 Starbucks co-労働者s who 分裂(する) an $87 million California 宝くじ jackpot in 2000, each winning $6.6 million 株. In October 2004, Camat was 発射 and killed by Seattle police officers 答える/応じるing to a 騒動 outside a nightclub where a number of people, 含むing Camat, were 伴う/関わるd in a fight.
  • Jeffrey Dampier won a $20 million Illinois Lotto in 1996, he used the money to bring his family closer together, relocating his parents and family to Florida to enjoy his new 繁栄. Soon after his wife 離婚d him. In 2005, his sister-in-法律 and her boyfriend 誘惑するd him to their home under 誤った pretenses before kidnapping and 狙撃 him.?

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