Winning lottery ticket worth $100,000 pulled from trash

Friday, Feb. 18, 2005 | 9:35 a.m.

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. -- A woman who pulled a discarded lottery ticket from a restaurant trash can said she planned to enter it into a second-chance drawing, only to later find out it was worth $100,000.

Two other people had pitched in to buy the $5 Hoosier Lottery scratch-off ticket last week at the Chaperral Cafe. When a clerk at the downtown cafe told them it wasn't the $40 winner they were hoping for, they threw it away, lottery officials said.

It wasn't a $40 winner -- it was a $100,000 winner.

Karrie Jeremiah, who fished the ticket out of the trash, said she wondered whether the ticket's numbers were completely checked before the ducat was discarded.

"That's exactly what was going through my head," she said. "Who would ever throw this ticket in the trash knowing it was a $100,000 hit?"

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