LUCKY MISTAKE
15 January 2010
$128 million Kentucky lottery winner had not
intended to buy ticket
The Kentucky media were marvelling this week at the
tale, and extraordinary good fortune, of Rob Anderson, a
39-year-old father of two who scooped the Kentucky
lottery jackpot of $128 million, thanks to a botched
ticket.
The car worker stopped by a gas station
to buy three $1 lottery tickets that he wanted to give
to friends as Christmas stocking fillers, but the clerk
mistakenly ran a ticket with the three randomly selected
numbers on one ticket.
He offered to void the
numbers and re-issue the ticket, but Anderson shrugged
off the mistake and told the clerk to simply run three
more $1 tickets, whilst he retained the 'mistaken'
ticket for himself.
"The clerk ran the $3 Quick
Pick but he put it all on one ticket, and I was like,
doggone it, I needed three separate tickets,'' Anderson
recalled this week, recounting that when the clerk asked
him if he should void the ticket he decided to keep it,
ordering others for his Christmas gifts.
Anderson threw the botched ticket on a dresser in his
bedroom and didn't check the numbers until after the
draw, when he discovered that the clerk's error had made
him an extremely wealthy man.
The doubly lucky
winner and his wife both work at the Toyota plant in
Louisville, Kentucky and plan to buy a new car and visit
Hawaii. They have yet to decide whether to take a
one-off, after tax cash payment of around $ 66 million,
or 30 annual payments.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
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