{"id":1038660,"date":"2022-03-29T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/29\/virginia-woman-fishes-110000-winning-lottery-ticket-out-of-the-trash\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:50:18","slug":"virginia-woman-fishes-110000-winning-lottery-ticket-out-of-the-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/29\/virginia-woman-fishes-110000-winning-lottery-ticket-out-of-the-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia woman fishes $110,000 winning lottery ticket out of the trash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mary Elliot of\u00a0Buckingham County, Va., said she had to fish a coffee-stained Cash 5 with EZ Match ticket out of the trash when she realized it was a $110,000 winner. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Lottery<\/p>\n

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March 29 (UPI) —<\/span> A Virginia woman who won a $110,000 prize from a lottery drawing said she was instantly faced with an unexpected problem — she had already thrown the ticket in the trash.<\/p>\n

Mary Elliot of Buckingham County told Virginia Lottery officials she selected the numbers 6-13-18-21-25 when she bought her ticket for the Feb. 24 Cash 5 with EZ Match drawing from the Food Lion store in Dillwyn.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

Elliot said she recognized the numbers when she checked the results of the drawing because they represent important family birthdays.<\/p>\n

“When I saw I’d won, I couldn’t stop shaking to save my life,” Elliot said.<\/p>\n

Elliot said her disbelief soon turned to panic when she realized she had mistakenly already thrown the ticket into the trash.<\/p>\n

The player retrieved the ticket from the garbage, but the now coffee-stained ticket’s barcode wouldn’t work when she tried to scan it.<\/p>\n

Elliot took the ticket to the Virginia Lottery’s Prize Zone West in Henrico, where officials were able to confirm the stained ticket was a valid winner.<\/p>\n

The ticket earned Elliot a $110,000 jackpot. The winner did not say if she had any plans for her prize money.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Elliot of\u00a0Buckingham County, Va., said she had to fish a coffee-stained Cash 5 with EZ Match ticket out of the trash when she realized it was a $110,000 winner. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Lottery March 29 (UPI) — A Virginia woman who won a $110,000 prize from a lottery drawing said she was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1038661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}