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Clerk Wins With Unwanted Lottery Ticket
United States Member #26687 November 16, 2005 162 Posts Offline |
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She Bought It After She Couldn't Sell It POSTED: 3:38 pm EDT April 20, 2007 CONOVER, N.C. -- A customer wanted to buy a lottery ticket, but a clerk at a store in Conover, N.C., accidentally printed out an extra one. The clerk, Wadburn Allen, spent the rest of the day trying to sell the duplicate Powerball ticket, but couldn't. So, she bought it. The next day, Allen returned to the store and found that the ticket matched five numbers -- earning her a $200,000 jackpot. When she went to Raleigh to claim her prize, she ran into the customer who purchased the original ticket. The customer also gets $200,000. A lottery spokeswoman said, "They put two and two together and ended up hugging."
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kent, washington United States Member #3576 January 26, 2004 394 Posts Offline |
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this is a great story. i like these happy endings.
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Prince of Insufficient Light Ruler of Heck United States Member #13375 March 30, 2005 1357 Posts Offline |
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good thing the tickets were exact duplicates and non-jackpot winners, otherwise it would have been "Cue the lawyers" Modern "education" teaches a version of history so fictionalized, it should be followed by "TM"
They're warning me about Osama or whatever. Picture me buying the scam; I say "never!". 
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Tralfamadore / Zeta Riticuli Star System United States Member #30849 January 17, 2006 4184 Posts Offline |
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Good for her. Anyone who doubts the luck factor in these things, she was meant to win that $200,000. It's Lotto, not horseshoes or artillery!
Close doesn't count!
I sell everything at a loss but make up for it in volume
- Milo Minderbinder, Catch-22
There are two kinds of jackpot winners...the ones who remained anonymous and the ones that wish they had.
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Wandering Aimlessly United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4379 Posts Offline |
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Good for her. Anyone who doubts the luck factor in these things, she was meant to win that $200,000. I'm just curious - is there any way of knowing when someone pays for a ticket?
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Tralfamadore / Zeta Riticuli Star System United States Member #30849 January 17, 2006 4184 Posts Offline |
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Make that good for him, the clerk was a guy. Good for the winner, too. It's Lotto, not horseshoes or artillery!
Close doesn't count!
I sell everything at a loss but make up for it in volume
- Milo Minderbinder, Catch-22
There are two kinds of jackpot winners...the ones who remained anonymous and the ones that wish they had.
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Wandering Aimlessly United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4379 Posts Offline |
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No, Coin Toss, unless the article is wrong. ??? So, she bought it. earning her a $200,000 jackpot.
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United States Member #4650 May 4, 2004 4158 Posts Offline |
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I'm just curious - is there any way of knowing when someone pays for a ticket? justxploring There are no names recorded of who sales and who buys, the ticket has the date and also the retailer's number that IDs where it was bought from. The ticket and prize belongs to whoever has it, signs it and claims the prize. The store's lottery terminal keeps a record of what kinds of lottery tickets and how many of them were printed by it (The terminal) and also the dates of when they were bought and of their draws. The cash register's tape keep a record of how many lottery tickets (All kinds of) were sold and of course paid for, also of the date and time when they were sold, but not of what kind of tickets they were and of who bought them. The total ammount of lottery tickets on the day's final report given by all the registers most match or be the same as the total ammount of lottery tickets printed by all the lottery terminals at that store. ----- Sorry! By ammount of lottery tickets, I don't really mean the number of lottery tickets sold, but their total cash ammount.
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Tralfamadore / Zeta Riticuli Star System United States Member #30849 January 17, 2006 4184 Posts Offline |
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Right after I saw this thread last night a report came on the radio saying "The clerk, he..." It's Lotto, not horseshoes or artillery!
Close doesn't count!
I sell everything at a loss but make up for it in volume
- Milo Minderbinder, Catch-22
There are two kinds of jackpot winners...the ones who remained anonymous and the ones that wish they had.
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Tennessee United States Member #25259 October 29, 2005 93 Posts Offline |
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Right after I saw this thread last night a report came on the radio saying "The clerk, he..." I googled this story and all the stories I find say “SHE” [ N.C. convenience store clerk accidentally prints up 2 Powerball tickets, wins $200,000] Most of the hits give credit to the AP The ASSOCIATED PRESS The AP may have made a mistake. Do you have any links where it was a HE instead of a SHE ?
This is a real neat story. It really does not mater if it was a HE or SHE to me.  Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery 
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