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In September 2004, Hurley wins the lottery, and over the ensuing weeks, everyone around him seems to suffer increasingly bad luck. His grandfather dies of a heart attack, the priest officiating the burial is struck by lightning, his brother's wife walks out on him, his mother breaks her ankle while the house he bought her goes up in flames, and Hurley himself is falsely arrested.
Earl Hickey is a small-time thief, living in the fictional rural town of Camden, who loses his winning $100,000 lottery ticket after being hit by a car while he celebrates his good fortune. Lying in a hospital bed, he learns about karma during an episode of the talk show Last Call with Carson Daly .
Imagine winning $50 million from the lottery and then realizing you lost the ticket. Well, one Canadian couple had to live through that nightmare. CTV reports Hakeem Nosiru was only one day away ...
Canadian Gerald Muswagon bought a $2 lotto ticket that made him an instant millionaire in 2011. ... One of the more bizarre and tragic stories of lost lottery fortune is the tale of Ibi Roncaioli ...
Martyn and Kay Tott won a $5 million jackpot, but lost the ticket. Martyn Tott, 33, and his 24-year-old wife from the UK missed out on a $5 million lottery fortune after losing their ticket.
He was noted for being the winner of a 2002 lottery jackpot. His win of US$314.9 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery was, at the time, the largest jackpot ever won by a single winning ticket in the history of American lottery. After winning the lottery, he was proximate to a number of crimes, and experienced several personal tragedies. [2]
Maybe the flaw was intentional, to encourage players to spend lots of money on lottery tickets, since the state took a cut of each ticket sold, about 35 cents on the dollar. (In 2003, the year that Jerry began playing, the state lottery would sell $1.68 billion in tickets and send $586 million of that revenue into a state fund to support K-12 ...
The California lottery argued that the player who claimed he was the rightful owner of two Mega Millions jackpot-winning tickets but lost one is not owed the second half of the nearly $400 million ...