New Jersey man who won $273M Mega Millions jackpot says he forgot ticket at store: report

An unemployed New Jersey man who bought a winning $273 million lottery ticket last week said accidentally misplaced it at the store before returning the next day to pick it up, according to a report.

Mike Weirsky, 54, said he had bought two Mega Millions tickets at the Quick Chek on New Brunswick Avenue in Pohatcong Township, N.J. on Feb. 28 but left them at the store.

When he returned to get them the next day, the store was holding them in a drawer. A “good Samaritan” had reportedly found them and had given them to the clerk. That night, the winning numbers were called but Weirsky wasn’t paying attention.

It was not until Sunday that a conversation with a friend reminded him of his tickets. He checked his tickets and realized he had a winner, nj.com reported.

Weirsky, who is technically unemployed and has been picking up money doing handyman worked joked: “I was a bum in high school, I was a bum after. Maybe I’ll be a beach bum now.”




https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-jers...e-initially-forgot-ticket-at-store-report.amp

I read that he divorced his wife of 15 years this past October......I'm assuming she legally can't claim.any of this money, right? Unless of course he's will to throw her some.

And talk about luck......what if a customer walked out with his tickets......he got very lucky after going back the next day.....& then hitting the lottery, lol.

Why would an ex-wife be entitled to anything?

LargeMarge said:

Why would an ex-wife be entitled to anything?

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Should use his new wealth to hurt the ex wife. Pay someone to break her ribs... then 5 months later. Her legs...then 2 Monns later. Her left arm

have someone steal her wheelchair

then call her and pretend to care. Then have her blow you on camera. Nut on her face and post it to all her friends which you know she has bashed you too

I don’t want my lotto winning ex-husband back even for $273M



Even a $273 million jackpot isn’t enough for this lottery winner’s ex-wife to want him back.

Eileen Murray told The Post on Thursday she has no plans to get back together with her ex, Mega Millions Jackpot winner Mike Weirsky, — and won’t be calling him anytime soon.

“He’s not appealing to me all of a sudden because he has this money,” said Murray, 53.

During their 15-year marriage, which ended in divorce in October, Murray worked as a cost analyst for a utilities company, but her 54-year-old husband was unemployed. She’s still paying him spousal support, she said.

Still, she has no plans on coming after him for any of the $162.5 million lump sum he’ll be collecting.

“I’m not going after anything. I have morals. I know what I’ve worked for and its everything that I have.”

Murray, who wouldn’t divulge why the marriage ended, said she doesn’t think her husband will reach out to offer her any of the cash but hopes he “does the right thing.”

Asked what that would be, Murray replied: “Think about it. How long did I work? How long did I support him? I had to give him a lot of money in the divorce.”

“You tell me what’s the moral thing to do.”

She believes he’ll support his family and may give to animal charities.

Though Weirsky said at a press conference he heard from Murray on Thursday — she said she never called him, and doesn’t plan on talking to him for at least a couple of months.

“He’ll think I’m there with my hand out and I have no intention to do that,” she said.

“I truly wish him well … though I know he doesn’t believe that,” she added. “I want him to surround himself with good people. I don’t think anybody should be taken advantage of.”



https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...to-winning-ex-husband-back-even-for-273m/amp/

He should give her like $5 million......she supported him for 15 years & had to pay him support after the divorce.....what's right is right.

He should be finding out who turned in the winning ticket and reward them

If the clerks can remember who it was+1.

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He should be finding out who turned in the winning ticket and reward them

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Yeah, I would definitely try & find out who the good Samaritan was & give them a nice piece of change.

The Computer Group said:

Yeah, I would definitely try & find out who the good Samaritan was & give them a nice piece of change.

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He should be getting around $85-90 million after taxes. Hopefully he's at least throwing that clerk and the person who turned in the ticket $500k-$1 million each.

The Greatest One said:

Should use his new wealth to hurt the ex wife. Pay someone to break her ribs... then 5 months later. Her legs...then 2 Monns later. Her left arm

have someone steal her wheelchair

then call her and pretend to care. Then have her blow you on camera. Nut on her face and post it to all her friends which you know she has bashed you too

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Thanks for the laugh. Needed it after losing yet another wager.

TNVOLFAN said:

He should be finding out who turned in the winning ticket and reward them

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I would give that person $1 million without a second thought

Ex wife says she’ll never fuck his dick again but something tells me his dick is about to be the happiest it’s ever been.

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He should be finding out who turned in the winning ticket and reward them

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ANOTHERDAY? said:

I would give that person $1 million without a second thought

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Agreed but based on his last comments in the article about himself I don't think he'll have the same mindset.

LargeMarge said:

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Legally not required, but with me and that kind of money I'd toss her enough to set herself up for life,unless I totally hated her

I figure I've got maybe 20 years more to live, at most. I'm used to living in a frugal manner . I'll take a pair of scissors and cut open a tube of toothpaste to get the last remaining dregs left in it, just the way I was raised.
I really couldn't even begin to spend a couple of hundred million bucks , which is probably more like 50 M net after taxes and shit .
My parents born in 1919 and 1920, grew up during the Great Depression, so their values got passed on to me
Sure, I'd fly first class and stay at five star hotels, but I wouldn't buy a private jet, or a 9 bedroom, 12 bathroom, 8,500 sf mansion, I just don't need it, not like I have 8 young children.
I couldn't possibly blow that kind of diner, I'd be very generous with such a windfall
That's why I only play the state lottery at about 10 M now, starts at 1M, so it's relatively huge now and 8 million to one instead of 300 million to one like Powerball and $1, not $2.
That's plenty for me and a lot better chance of hitting
I throw $4 a week at it, and will stop once it hits and goes back to 1M.

I know you can't make it work out from a purely mathematical sense, but I can justify a few bucks a week when the jackpot is large.

$273 million Mega Millions winner has Good Samaritan to thank




Trenton, N.J. -- An unemployed New Jersey man who won last Friday's $273 million Mega Millions jackpot said he wants to reward the mystery person who returned the tickets to a store where he'd left them a day earlier.

Mike Weirsky, of Alpha, N.J., said at a news conference with lottery officials Thursday that he bought the tickets last Thursday at a Quick Check store in Phillipsburg, near the Pennsylvania border, and forgot them there because he was more focused on his cellphone.

Someone found them and gave them to the store to hold. When Weirsky returned on Friday, he verified the tickets were his and store employees returned them.

Lottery officials said Thursday that if the person who found the tickets had held onto them and signed them, they could have claimed the jackpot.

"I'm looking for the guy that handed them in, I want to thank him," Weirsky said. "I'm going to give him something, but I'm going to keep that private."

"I'm very thankful there was an honest person out there because I figured it (the ticket) was gone."

The 54-year-old says he got divorced last fall and had been a stay-at-home husband for years while his wife worked. He said he'd been looking for work for about a year and hadn't gotten any calls for interviews - until Wednesday, by which time work had ceased to be a priority.

"I had to deny it before I even went," he said.

Weirsky says he's going to "sit back and enjoy" the money. He said the first thing he's going to do is buy a new pickup truck, then buy his mother a new car and pay to remodel her home.

"After that I'm basically locked in to what my lawyer and other people I have working for me tell me I can do," he said.

Weirsky, who has been playing the lottery for years, said he checked the tickets at home on Sunday and saw he'd matched the numbers, but couldn't quite believe his eyes. He went back to the store during Sunday night's snowstorm and got the news.

"I couldn't believe I was the winner of more than $2 after playing after all these years," he said.

CBS New York reports he said he went from nothing to something overnight.

"I was down, now I'm way up! I don't know how much higher I can get," Weirsky said.

The winning numbers were 29, 33, 39, 60, 66, and the Mega Ball was 21.

Weirsky said he said he plays $20 a week, mostly quick picks.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...sky-273-million-dollar-winner-good-samaritan/

Well he's doing the right thing by giving the customer that returned the ticket to the cashier a portion of money......now how much will be kept private.

Next he should give his wife some money for the 15 years she supported him as he stayed home.