Check Your Lotto Ticket! Someone in Eureka Won $2,171,698
Start digging in your glove box and sock drawer. Somebody in Eureka bought a MegaMillions ticket at Three Corners Market in Eureka yesterday. The lucky ticket is worth 2,171,698.
“We’re waiting for the lucky person to come in and tell us they won it,” one of the clerks, Donna, who did not want to give her last name told us. She told us that the Lotto called her this morning. “My boss talked to them,” she said.
Donna said she has been asking customers today if they might have bought the ticket. “The person who won might not know,” she explained. “People put them in their pocket or purse and forget them.”
Sadly, we didn’t buy a ticket but maybe you did?
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Holy Shit! (pardon my language).
What great news…I know it’s not me though. As I always say, your chances of winning are extremely small but zero if you don’t buy a ticket. I should listen to my own advice.
I wish you all the best…don’t waste it.
🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
Congratulations to the winner. Be sure to go and print out the winners guide from the Lottery, keep silent until you are ready for media storm and folks hitting you up for money.
I never buy lotto tickets. But when I moved to Kneeland I just had a feeling 3-Corners was one of those places that would eventually sell one.
No, it’s not my ticket.
Congratulations 3-Corners! You can use the bonus.
I bet the ticket buyer is someone up the hill.
Some inbred yokel who can barely sign his name on the line to cash the check no doubt. They’ll be broke faster than you can say “Indian Island Massacre.”
Well Your a ray of sunshine and optimism, now aren’t ya?
Damn jealous.much?
Wow; don’t know the residents of that area well do ‘ya? Be Kind, be well.
That’s just rude. There are a lot of great people living in that area. Both my boys live near there and they are educated and hard working. They support that local market when they need last minute items. I don’t know if they, or their wives, play the lottery, but it would be a huge blessing for their families if they won!
Do we know what the date was that the ticket was purchased?
On the 5th
Maybe add the winning numbers and date of the lottery so that people can check their tickets.
Good idea. I did.
Trump sent someone the lottery!! He was right!! It’s so great right now:)
Trump couldn’t find his ass with both hands in a clean, well-lighted room.
Agreed!
Really? Political bs on a really cool bit of news
Take up knitting
Bonus Tip: You can use the thousands of losing tickets you collected over the years (you did collect them, right?!) to line the walls of your outhouse and still have enough left over to do a complete makeover of the tarpaper shack down by the bubblin crew.
IF YOU ARE THE WINNER AND YOU KNOW IT, I strongly advise you to KEEP YOUR F’ING MOUTH ***SHUT***
Be smart – unlike almost every single lottery winner in history.
If you have the winning ticket, GET LEGAL ADVICE BEFORE MAKING A SINGLE MARK ON THE WINNING TICKET! Do NOT, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, SIGN THE TICKET WITH YOUR LEGAL NAME AS THE WINNER – or you stand a 99.9% chance of losing ALL of your winnings to the vultures. A competent legal advisor will tell you to establish a trust to claim the prize money, in order to protect your personal identity & privacy.
Seek real professional legal & financial advice FIRST, make the lawyers sign nondisclosure agreements BEFORE disclosing ANYTHING – and stay publicly ANONYMOUS!!! Don’t tell your friends, your neighbors, or even your family – ESPECIALLY your family… SERIOUSLY. They will learn the truth, when it is safe to you for them to learn it.
Lottery money almost always leads to personal tragedy, simply because the majority of the population don’t have the wherewithal and/or common sense to handle it…
Don’t learn the hard way. Just be smart.
The lottery strongly suggests you sign winning tickets immediately. If unsigned and lost, whomever finds it and signs it collects the money. End of story.
Ice –
Please, don’t take this the wrong way –
but obviously you have NOT won a lottery before.
I’m not saying you’re wrong – pretty much all state lottery commissions DO recommend signing & reporting a winning ticket right away, as you state – which is why most winners actually lose in the long run.
Frankly, it’s about marketing.
IF YOU SIGN A WINNING LOTTERY TICKET WITH YOUR REAL LEGAL PERSONAL NAME, YOU ARE LEGALLY DISCLOSING THAT INFORMATION PUBLICLY – and the lottery commission in question has the legal right to publish your name publicly as a promotion for their lottery – and they WILL DO SO, Immediately.
I am *not* a lawyer. I do not seek, nor would I accept, the professional services of the winner.
And I’m NOT suggesting leaving the winning ticket on your dashboard or center console with your windows down & doors unlocked in the Valley West shopping center parking lot, right next to your $1000 cellphone & your wallet brimming full of cash. PROTECT IT WITH YOUR LIFE.
To the winner: Seek EXPERIENCED, professional representation. Require nondisclosure agreements with said professionals – and tell NO ONE ELSE.
Trust this advice, or do what you will – and best of luck to you regardless. Your luck has already been fortuitous, perhaps it’ll hold without advice from others…
While this post is a bit all-capsy, I do agree that the winner should seek competent legal advice.
I agree. You make yourself a target for thieves by publishing your name.
&theres a lot of fine print involved.
Kinda like giving the public the gps coordinates of every legal pot grow. That hasnt turned out well.
To the winner we’d all love it if you spent some of that money at every local business here!!!
Congratulations!
I hope they read this column and heed your advice.
I’d love to meet the winner , because I’ve thought for a while no one really wins the lottery… it’s a staged event, and the $ goes somewhere 🤔
There’s a cut for schools ..
and the taxman.
Don’t worry. He’s got a girlfriend and kids. He ain’t looking for new friends. FYI
Way to go Ed!!
You lucky sucker
CONGRATULATIONS!!! May you, and your family, enjoy the rest of your lives. Sincerely!!!
Half goes to taxes, so they’re looking at 1 cool million.
it depends on what state you live in
California
There is word on the street who it is already. To them I say, RUN. Every last idiot around town is going to hit you up or steal your truck you just bought. Get rid of the money. Lock it up. Get a gun.
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Way to go Ed Davis
Way to “out” your “friend”, Billy!
(Kym – perhaps an edit might be appropriate here? I was under the impression that comments which identify individuals would be edited, for their protection…)
Here’s what motivated me:
I don’t have any official info on who won the lottery.
My impression from comments I saw on Facebook was that Davis gave permission for his name to be used the first evening. But I don’t know either that Davis was the winner or that he gave permission.
Accusing someone of criminal activity without proof is different than reporting that someone won the lottery.
Ed Davis is a relatively common name.
Conclusion: it was okay to leave the good wishes up.
Not accusing anyone of anything, let alone criminal activity.
Just thought the winner wouldn’t want to become an instant victim – but hey, if Ed says he’s fine with being publicly outed by random people on the internet, who am I to judge?
Nobody, that’s who.
(And btw, Kym – I love you, your site, your reporters, and the fact that I am kept in the “local loop” thanks to you & yours. Please don’t take my comments as negative critique – they were not intended as such.)
No worries! I just try to be transparent about my reasoning (such as it is in this case) so folks can be better informed.
Congratulations to the winner! Sincerely happy for you! 🎊🎉🎊😁
In response to RedWoukdForrest,
My daughter lives in Eureka, I’m in New Hampshire. A few years ago someone in N.H. won the nearly or just over 1billion dollar jackpot ( I forget if it was Powerball or Megamillions) and she signed her ticket. By doing so, you are making your name public. Well, with all that money this woman didn’t want the nation to know her name, so she hired an attorney and you guessed it, her win went to court. It took maybe two months for the court to decide if she had to make her identity known or anonymous. But while the case was waiting for a court decision, here’s her attorney saying she was losing tons of money in interest while the court was making their decision. It came out in her favor that although she signed the ticket, ( because she was following the ticket guidelines on the back of the ticket) her identity could be kept anonymous and she could put the money into trust.
It was just bizarre that with all that money, her attorney was complaining about interest money being lost as the courts made their decisions, like this woman didn’t have enough as it was.
Moral of the story, if you win a ton of money don’t sign your ticket until you see an attorney and set up a trust fund for your winnings if you want to keep your identity confidential.
I hope it was Roy Smith
Nope
Would be great if lottery winnings capped out at 3-5 million and when over that amount there would just be more winners instead of one person getting absurd amounts. 2 million especially after taxes etc. is not absurd though so good for them. Most who shop at that market can afford to live out in the country. I hope it was someone who needed the money.
Well whoever the winner is if your afraid to cash the ticket I’ll do it for ya
People are evil and will do anything for money
I am the one who bought that ticket and it was stolen from me Paul mcewen IP picked each number personally for a symbolic reason
I need help don’t know if there’s anyway to prove that I was the one who bought the ticket if anybody knows what I should do
If you have any advice put it on the comments and I will check back thank you
Contact law enforcement and the place you purchased it.
My advice is to build a time machine, because you are hella late on this one dude.