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NEWSSTAND SELLS LOTTERY TICKET WORTH $4.2 MILLION
October 27, 2011
It was just an ordinary day. Ann Marie Bossard, owner of Anthracite Newsstand in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was sorting and scanning through her regular customer’s lottery tickets. “I was putting tickets in; they said ‘no winner,’ ‘no winner.’ This came out, it said ‘winner.’ I couldn’t say anything,” she said. The winner was no regular, small winner, it was actually the largest payout ever done in her newsstand, a record of $4.2 million. Lottery checker
Ann Marie Bossard was speechless.
It turns out that the winner is a faithful lottery fan; he usually buys tickets twice a week for different games. The million dollar ticket was a March 6 lotto ticket and the winning numbers were 02-05-10-13-28-48. As amazing as this may sound, the winning combination was picked by no other than the store’s lottery machine. If we take into account that the winning probability of this game is 1:4,661,273 and to make this magic happen you need to match the exact time and date and you walk up to the correct selling point, press the button of the right machine to give you by random pick the winning string of numbers, you would also be speechless. This random string of numbers picked by the lottery machine landed the ticket holder the sum of $4,205,027. The net amount that the winner will be taking home is determined by deducing 25% federal tax. Lottery winning numbers
Match 6 Lotto stars the jackpot at $500,000 and grows until somebody wins. In the event of multiple jackpot winners, the winners will receive a portion of the jackpot. All prize payments, including the jackpot prize, will be made as a one-time, lump sum cash payment. The newsstand will receive a bonus of $10,000 for selling the winning ticket.
The winner, who would prefer to remain unidentified, was shaking when he turned in his winning ticket. However in his procedures he was very clear-headed and calm. He walked out the back door with Bossard, away from all the commotion that his winning had stirred at the newsstand, to the nearest Pennsylvania Lottery office. There he called a lawyer and someone who could best advice him on how to invest his $4.2 million wisely. According to Bossard, the winner confided some of his plans.
“He has an old Subaru and he’s going to buy a new Subaru,” she said. “He told where he works that he’s going to retire. He’s going to pack it in, because he can afford to retire.”
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