A Muncie, Indiana man got the call of a lifetime recently.
On the other end was a store clerk who told James Allen that he won a 12-point-eight million-dollar Powerball jackpot.
Allen claimed his prize yesterday from a drawing held nearly two weeks ago, on November fifth.
Allen says he lets his tickets accumulate and drops them off at a retailer to have the clerk scan for winners. He returns later to collect any prize money.
Lottery officials say the clerk could have claimed the winning ticket without Allen's knowledge. Instead, the clerk called Allen and told him to return to the store immediately.
"He was shaking as he held my ticket," Allen said." He wouldn't even take a dime as a thank-you. He said at his business they are not allowed to accept money and he didn't want to be fired.
Allen said the clerk did not want to be identified and does not work at the store where Allen purchased his ticket.
The ticket was sold at 7:18 p.m. the day of the drawing at Village Pantry, 3301 N. Morrison Road, one of 498 tickets sold at the store that day.
Allen has two options. He can either get $6.7 million in cash immediately or receive payments for the next 30 years.
Allen's jackpot was the third in a row won with a ticket sold in Indiana. Indiana is the only Powerball state to produce three consecutive jackpot winners.
You have got to be kidding me....That clerk deserves at least 10% of the take...just for being that honest....I couldn't tell you what I would do in that situation....(hopefully the same thing....but there is a devil inside of me sometimes)
First off, a big hurray has to go out to that store clerk. He must have had thoughts when he saw the ticket was a jackpot winner.
Secondly, how much of an idiot can you be? This guy who won must have known that there was a winning ticket sold in that area especially since it was the third jackpot won in a row in Indiana. A pretty big deal was made of this even though the jackpot won was a small one. You can't tell this guy didn't hear somewhere that another jackpot was won in the area. And what does he do? He goes and drops off his tickets and LEAVES!!!!!!!!!! He is lucky he is not $12 Million poorer.
Thirdly, How friggin lazy can you be? You buy your lottery tickets from a retailer where a Powerall jackpot was won and you can't even make an effort to check the ticket yourself and see if you may have been the person who won. I would walk across hot coals to check my tickets if I had bought them from a retailer who sold the winning ticket. You never know; that person who won just might be me.
This guy did spend the $1 and did have the right numbers so he does derserve the money. It just makes you wonder if someone like this does really deserve to win a jackpot like that. Just doesn't seem right.
That was a nice story of a lottery player who was too lazy to check his own tickets, took them to a store where he didn't buy them, dump them on that store's clerk , said check these tickets and give me a call at home if I win anything because I don't have the time to waste while your are checking my tickets and left. The store clerk took the time to check all those tickets, found a $12M winner among them , called him at home, held the ticket for him to pick up and refused any gratuity for fear of losing a great job.
That's a nice story, but had that clerk also bought some tickets and won a prize big enough to be noted in the local paper, he probably would have had a nasty law suit to deal with even it the ticket had really belonged to him. Worst yet, he could have called the wrong person and given the ticket to them and still have been involved in a nasty law suit.
I hope the winner will give the clerk some money under the table. I am glad that there are still people out there who are still honest. After all, to me this is solely about the spirit of humanity. About leaving tickets?? In many small towns, everyone knows everyone else so much of the time..people try to be straight with each other. I know people who do that.. A man left his tickets for a clerk to check at our playing place and he went to work..when he came back, the clerk informed him that he had won $1,000.00. So leaving tickets is not that strange to me..
"He was shaking as he held my ticket," Allen said." He wouldn't even take a dime as a thank-you. He said at his business they are not allowed to accept money and he didn't want to be fired."
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Sounds like he already offered the clerk a small gratuity, which he refused. Maybe he should have multiplied that dime by a million($100K) and the clerk could have afforded to changed job if there was a problem when his boss found out he was checking tickets that they didn't sell and some other store was going to get the bonus for selling the ticket.
You have got to be kidding me....That clerk deserves at least 10% of the take...just for being that honest....I couldn't tell you what I would do in that situation....(hopefully the same thing....but there is a devil inside of me sometimes)
First off, a big hurray has to go out to that store clerk. He must have had thoughts when he saw the ticket was a jackpot winner.
Secondly, how much of an idiot can you be? This guy who won must have known that there was a winning ticket sold in that area especially since it was the third jackpot won in a row in Indiana. A pretty big deal was made of this even though the jackpot won was a small one. You can't tell this guy didn't hear somewhere that another jackpot was won in the area. And what does he do? He goes and drops off his tickets and LEAVES!!!!!!!!!! He is lucky he is not $12 Million poorer.
Thirdly, How friggin lazy can you be? You buy your lottery tickets from a retailer where a Powerall jackpot was won and you can't even make an effort to check the ticket yourself and see if you may have been the person who won. I would walk across hot coals to check my tickets if I had bought them from a retailer who sold the winning ticket. You never know; that person who won just might be me.
This guy did spend the $1 and did have the right numbers so he does derserve the money. It just makes you wonder if someone like this does really deserve to win a jackpot like that. Just doesn't seem right.
That was a nice story of a lottery player who was too lazy to check his own tickets, took them to a store where he didn't buy them, dump them on that store's clerk , said check these tickets and give me a call at home if I win anything because I don't have the time to waste while your are checking my tickets and left. The store clerk took the time to check all those tickets, found a $12M winner among them , called him at home, held the ticket for him to pick up and refused any gratuity for fear of losing a great job.
That's a nice story, but had that clerk also bought some tickets and won a prize big enough to be noted in the local paper, he probably would have had a nasty law suit to deal with even it the ticket had really belonged to him. Worst yet, he could have called the wrong person and given the ticket to them and still have been involved in a nasty law suit.
RJOh
I hope the winner will give the clerk some money under the table. I am glad that there are still people out there who are still honest. After all, to me this is solely about the spirit of humanity. About leaving tickets?? In many small towns, everyone knows everyone else so much of the time..people try to be straight with each other. I know people who do that.. A man left his tickets for a clerk to check at our playing place and he went to work..when he came back, the clerk informed him that he had won $1,000.00. So leaving tickets is not that strange to me..
"He was shaking as he held my ticket," Allen said." He wouldn't even take a dime as a thank-you. He said at his business they are not allowed to accept money and he didn't want to be fired."
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Sounds like he already offered the clerk a small gratuity, which he refused. Maybe he should have multiplied that dime by a million($100K) and the clerk could have afforded to changed job if there was a problem when his boss found out he was checking tickets that they didn't sell and some other store was going to get the bonus for selling the ticket.
RJOh