I seriously have lost all faith in humanity now. Come on people... http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/what_mega_mess_wHA9HVdfxA1VDSqWn58KtJ Md. woman won't share $105M lotto jackpot with McD's co-workers * Pool gal: $105M is all mine By EVAN SERPICK and WILLIAM FARRINGTON in Baltimore and BOB FREDERICKS in NY Last Updated: 9:46 AM, April 2, 2012 Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonaldâs into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie. Workers at the fast-food joint who pooled their cash for tickets are furious at a colleague who claims she won with a ticket she bought for herself and has no intention of sharing. âWe had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The âwinningâ ticket] wasnât on the group plan,â McDonaldâs âwinnerââ Mirlande Wilson 37, told The Post yesterday, insisting she alone bought one of the three tickets nationwide that will split a record $656 million payout. âI was in the group, but this was separate. The winning ticket was a separate ticket,â the single mother of seven said as she and her fiancé left her home in the squalid Westport neighborhood to attend church. The Haitian immigrant refused to show what she said was the winning ticket, claiming she had it hidden in another location and would present it to lottery officials today. Pressed as the day went on, she became more cagey. âI donât know if I won. Some of the numbers were familiar. I recognized some of [them],ââ she said. âI donât know whyââ people are saying differently. âIâm going to go to the lottery office [today]. I bought some tickets separately.â With winning tickets also sold in Illinois and Kansas, a single Maryland winner would get an after-tax lump sum of $105 million, or $5.59 million a year for 26 years. If Wilson won, and if it was with a pooled work ticket, the situation would be shockingly similar to that of New Jersey lottery louse Americo Lopes, who tried to screw five former colleagues after hitting a $24 million jackpot before a jury ordered him to spread the wealth. Wilsonâs co-workers â who make little more than $7.50 an hour â are sizzling with anger over the notion. âShe canâ t do this to us!â said Suleiman Osman Husein, a shift manager and one of 15 members in the pool. âWe each paid $5. She took everybodyâs money!â A man identifying himself as the boyfriend of a McDonaldâs manager named 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 groupâs tickets â along with a list of those who contributed to the pool â were left in an office safe at the burger joint, said the man, who gave only his first name, Allen, as he stood next to Layla. She declined to comment. Then, late Friday, before the nightâs drawing, the owner of the McDonaldâs, Birul Desai, gave Wilson $5 to buy more tickets for the pool on her way home from work, and she went back to the 7-Eleven and bought them, Allen said. Wilson took those tickets home with her, Allen said. But Wilson insisted yesterday that she had bought the second batch with an unidentified pal â not for the pool â and that the winning ticket was among them. A day earlier, a delirious Wilson had called co-workers to break the news â tellingly used the first-person singular. âI won! I won!â she cried, Allen said. Another colleague, Davon Wilson, no relation, said he was there when Mirlande Wilson called. âShe said, âTurn on the news.â She said she had won. I thought it was a joke or something. She doesnât seem like a person whoâd do this,â he said. Allan said he and Layla went to Wilsonâs home and pounded on the door for 20 minutes until she finally came out. âThese people are going to kill you. Itâs not worth your life!â Allen said he told her. âAll right! All right! Iâll share, but I canât find the ticket right now,â she finally said, according to Allen. Yohannes Michael, a clerk at the 7-Eleven where Wilson bought the tickets, expressed doubts about her story when he said yesterday that lottery officials have reviewed the storeâs video and believe that a man bought the winning ticket. Lottery rep Carole Everett would not confirm that. Reached at his Fairfax, Va., home, Desai, the McDonaldâs owner, declined to comment except to say, âItâs all bulls--t, if you ask me. Itâs speculation.â
Maybe she did buy extra tickets for herself. The store video shows a man buying the winning ticket. Besides, she hasn't even produced a winning ticket yet. She is a single Hatian with 7 children. I think she has been living off welfare and US TAXPAYERS should get that ticket!!!!!!
It's a most likely bs story. http://abcnews.go.com/US/mega-milli...umored-stories/story?id=16054861#.TwJQovBSBbw
Haiti is the Voodo capital of the west... that might explain a lot.. including a lot about that photo.. creepy looking, that.
"I seriously have lost all faith in humanity now. Come on people..." I tend to agree. How disgustingly greeding can a person be?