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catbyte

(36,939 posts)
Fri May 14, 2021, 06:46 PM May 2021

Woman says $26M California lottery ticket destroyed in wash

NORWALK, Calif. (AP) — The winner of a $26 million California Lottery prize may have literally washed the chance of a fortune down the drain.

The winning SuperLotto Plus ticket for the Nov. 14 drawing was sold at an Arco AM/PM convenience store in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk. Thursday was the last day to redeem it.

Nobody did.

Store employee Esperanza Hernandez told the Whittier Daily News that a woman came in Wednesday and told workers that she had put the ticket in her pants and it was destroyed in the laundry.

The store’s manager told KTLA-TV that surveillance video showed the woman who bought the ticket, and she's known to store workers.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woman-says-26m-california-lottery-ticket-destroyed-in-wash/ar-BB1gIq5J

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That sounds like something I would do. I buy a lottery ticket when it goes ridiculously high then I always forget to check the numbers.

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Woman says $26M California lottery ticket destroyed in wash (Original Post) catbyte May 2021 OP
I hate it when that happens. CentralMass May 2021 #1
The perils of life must be backed up with habits and systems bucolic_frolic May 2021 #2

bucolic_frolic

(50,332 posts)
2. The perils of life must be backed up with habits and systems
Sat May 22, 2021, 06:42 PM
May 2021

Seat of the pants lotteries are neither. This is why the poor remain poor.

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