$1 million lottery ticket found in old mail
It's always nice to come across something you'd thought you lost months ago, but one woman in the US was in for even more of a surprise recently. The Michigan woman discovered she'd won the lottery jackpot after rifling through a pile of her old mail.
Linda Tuttle bought the lottery ticket on 26 May this year, but seemingly completely forgot about it, never bothering to check the numbers.
However, she recently went back to the T&J Party Store where she bought the ticket and the cashier happened to mention that someone had bought a winning ticket from the store but it had never been claimed.
Curiosity set in, and Tuttle headed home to try and hunt down the ticket she had bought all those months ago.
As luck would have it, she managed to find the valuable bit of paper stuffed into a pile of old mail, and it just so happened that her ticket was the May Mega Millions winner.
Tuttle says she plans to use the money to visit friends in China, make some repairs around the house and also to buy a new car.
At least Tuttle was able to claim her prize - unlike one woman who had her jackpot winning ticket denied by the Virginia Lottery.
Ardella Newman bought a $2 scratchcard and matched the number 16 which supposedly meant that she had won the $20,000 jackpot.
However, the Virginia Lottery claimed the ticket was invalid after it was cut it the wrong place.
Ms Newman filed a complaint with the Virginia Lottery, saying: "I want the money that I thought I won. If you look at the ticket it says I won this money. It wasn't anything I did wrong, it's what they did wrong."
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