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Who Won $162 Million Mega Millions Jackpot?

2009_12_megamil.jpg Last week, it was announced that the $162 million Mega Millions ticket had been sold at the Cards and Things store in Rocky Point, Long Island. Newsday (subscription req'd) reports that there are numerous rumors about who might be the lucky winner: Is it "a kindly priest who plans to give all the money to the church" or "an elderly man - possibly with a glass eye - who worked for years as a janitor at Stony Brook University Medical Center and has gone into hiding"? Or does the "big ticket [remain] unclaimed because it blew away in the wind"? It took a while for a Queens MTA worker to pick up his big Mega Millions jackpot earlier this year—he contacted a lawyer first!

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  • Splicer

    Couple of reasons come to mind:

    1. The winner is really a group of winners and one of them got greedy with the ticket.

    2. The winner knows his family and is trying to insulate himself first before claiming the prize (we all know how many cousins down on their luck can suddenly show up).

    3. He's dyslexic and threw the ticket away after reading it wrong.

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