Fort Knox soldier almost trashed winning lottery ticket

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KRB03 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:53:07 GMT

too bad this wasnt out in time for Loramill to read. Throw tickets away AFTER checking them...

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Just6ntlc — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:48:36 GMT

That's a great story. That's a great decision of not trashing the PB ticket.

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wizeguy — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:28:39 GMT

Congrats to the lucky soldier

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csfb — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:26:56 GMT

Another soldier! If I recall this is the 6th or 7th soldier that won something big in the last 2 years. They are blest.

Fort Knox soldier almost trashed winning lottery ticket

Lottery Post — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:07:31 GMT

A soldier stationed at Fort Knox apparently made the right decision when he sifted through his trash to check if his lottery tickets were worth anything.

Kentucky Lottery officials said the soldier, who they said didn't want to be identified, had cleaned out his car and tossed a winning ticket worth $800,000.

But he had second thoughts and decided to go through the trash, find the tickets and check them out.

He said something just told him to check the tickets, and he did, said Chip P... [ More ]