The Dog Ate My Winning Powerball Ticket, Woman Says
Dog Ate Winning Powerball Ticket, Woman Says Several Contact Lottery Saying They Won, Had No Ticket :roll: :roll: POSTED: 4:38 pm CDT October 4, 2006 UPDATED: 6:32 pm CDT October 4, 2006 DES MOINES, Iowa -- With the largest Powerball jackpot ever won in Iowa, there were several ticket-holders who had wishful thinking. The Iowa Lottery said Wednesday that since the winning numbers were drawn it has been flooded with callers trying to explain why they were winners but could not produce their winning ticket. Iowa Lottery CEO Ed Stanek said a woman said she left her ticket on her car's dashboard while she was in the store and her dog ate her ticket. Stanek said another person told the lottery that he left his winning ticket in the truck he was driving for work, but he could no longer get to the ticket because he no longer worked for the company. Another man who contacted the lottery didn't remember much about his ticket. "He left his ticket in his hotel room, but couldn't remember what city he was in, the name of the hotel nor the store, nor the date (of when he bought it)," Stanek said. Another man called the lottery, claiming that he burned the winning ticket with some other trash when he cleaned out of a car. Stanek said he told officials that he couldn't remember the exact details about the ticket other than the winning numbers because he had suffered a head injury nine years earlier. http://www.kcci.com/news/10001893/detail.html