Woman Finds $100,000 Lotto Ticket In Trash

[jeffrey]

From boston.com

A woman who pulled a discarded lottery ticket from a restaurant trash can said she planned to enter it into a second-chance drawing, only to later find out it was worth $100,000.

Two other people had pitched in to buy the $5 Hoosier Lottery scratch-off ticket last week at the Chaperral Cafe. When a clerk at the downtown cafe told them it wasn't the $40 winner they were hoping for, they threw it away, lottery officials said.

It wasn't a $40 winner -- it was a $100,000 winner.

Karrie Jeremiah, who fished the ticket out of the trash, said she wondered whether the ticket's numbers were completely checked before the ducat was discarded... Entire Story Here