Why is this former information security director of the Iowa state lottery not smiling? Because he made a nifty self-deleting computer program designed to give him a $14.3 million winning ticket and got caught, say officials.
[Eddie] Tipton, now 51, waited more than a year before attempting to anonymously claim the ticket through a Bedford, N.Y. attorney named Crawford Shaw, the Lottery Post reported. The ticket ultimately expired, and Tipton's lame luck ran out when another lottery employee recognized him making his prohibited purchase in security footage from a QuikTrip gas station in Des Moines.
