The story of Mirlande Wilson and the winning lotto ticket deserves a straight-up “side eye”.

 

This McDonald’s worker, from Brooklyn, Maryland, was one of the lucky Americans who won in the largest lottery jackpot ever.  Up for the taking was $640 million (before taxes) and Wilson and several of her coworkers pooled together…all vying for the opportunity to become rich.  But, a recent turn of events got Wilson’s peers wondering “where the hell?” is the money.

 

See, Wilson was the one to go purchase the tickets for the group.  Strangely, the winning ticket is no where to be found.  She’s now claiming that the winning ticket is one that she purchased for herself and not part of the office pool.  Wilson’s story is that she and a friend went later that day to the store and bought “personal” tickets.  But, the co-workers who all pitched in $5 a piece believes she is dead wrong.

 

‘She can’t do this to us!’ said Suleiman Osman Husein, a shift manager and one of 15 members in the pool. ‘We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!’

 

The initial group of tickets Wilson purchased were kept in a safe at McDonald’s.  But later on, additional money was given to Wilson for her to get more tickets.  The co-workers are claiming that Wilson used their money to buy the winning ticket she’s now claims is rightfully hers.

 

What do you think?  Does Wilson’s co-workers have the right to be pissed off?

 

I say…HELL YES!  Although there is no way to prove who’s money was used to actually purchase the ticket, Wilson had a responsibility to buy tickets for the group.  The group was not informed by Wilson, via call or text, that she was at the store and was about to buy her own tickets. When you have that type of responsibility, you need to cover your butt by keeping in contact with the group.  She could have texted a pic of the ticket she bought (a second after she bought it).  She could have made a phone call.  Apparently, she wasn’t clearly thinking. Maybe her co-workera made the wrong choice of electing her to buy tickets.  Nevertheless, I believe Wilson owes them something. Even if it’s out of pure generosity, she should break them off some money.

 

 

If not, Wilson may fall in line with the rest of the lotto winners who’s experienced a lifetime of bad mojo.  I’m sure, the single mother of seven kids, wouldn’t want that.  SMH…

 

 

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