Someone Won A $14.6 Million Lottery...And Never Claimed It

NY Post - A potential get-rich-quick tale turned tragic after an anonymous lottery winner forgot to claim their $14.6 million jackpot before the deadline. The colossal cash prize marks the largest unclaimed lotto sum in Arizona history, reports CNN.

Contestants reportedly had 180 days to sign off on their eye-popping “The Pick” jackpot since the June 5 drawing, according to 12news.com. However, when Dec. 2 came around, no one had shown up at the Arizona Lottery Offices to cash their ticket to riches.

“It’s hard to see that not get claimed,” Arizona lottery spokeswoman Jacqueline Keidel Martinez tells NBC News.

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I'm TRIGGERED. Ok not really, but I am...miffed. I'm upset. I think that's the best words. Miffed and upset. The first thing you do when you buy a lottery ticket is day dream about all the stuff you're going to buy when you win the lottery. The second thing you do is stay up and refresh the website where they post the winning numbers until you see if you've won or not. There's no inbetween. There's no way to lose the ticket, to forget you bought the ticket, none of it. It goes 1) buy the ticket, 2) put ticket in wallet until you're home, 3) check numbers on website. Unless you die in the few hours between buying the ticket and the numbers being drawn, or you're one of those weirdos who buys tickets ahead of time and you can die in between, there is no excuse to not cash in a winning lottery ticket. And to be honest, if you're buying a lottery ticket ahead of time, you kinda deserve to die anyway. I simply cannot handle that amount of anxiety- having to go multiple days of day-dreaming about my new boat and new house on the beach where I can blog about the Redskins in peace. Plus I hype myself up so much about winning the lottery I lose focus on everything else. I am the king of convincing myself I'm about to have 200 million dollars. It gets bad.

So I don't feel sorry for whoever didn't cash in their ticket. If you're that dumb, that big of an idiot sandwich, that reckless, you deserve nothing. I said nothing! There's a reason the lotto is called the "poor tax" and it shows here in spades. At least this idiot won't be able to blow it all on hookers and meth and the money goes to a good cause:

The one silver lining is that the man’s winnings will be redistributed to state services that’ll benefit Arizona’s Navajo youths and abused children, among other worthy parties.

 

Still makes me mad though. I should be doing hookers and meth instead of some kid learning to read. Ugh.