Lottery winner surprised ticket worth $250,000

Comment #9

KY Floyd — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:53:51 GMT

This story came up about a month ago. At that time the people didn't want their name revealed. So much for that idea.

https://www.lotterypost.com/thread.aspx?tp=168823 q=bad+axe tab=nw rp=search

Comment #8

konane — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:35:23 GMT

Huge congratulations to them .... awesome win!!!! Kudos to the store clerk

Comment #7

gocart1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:04:25 GMT

Yes this really was a very nice story......so many times we hear about a bad apple store clerk

Comment #6

justxploring — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:54:48 GMT

Notice that 150 appears several times in this article?

Great story! 71 years old and worked all his life. Now he won't need to decide between buying food or prescriptions.

Comment #5

Tenaj — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:56:31 GMT

Congratulations to them! I like stories like that. The clerk was honest. The people were seniors and living off of social security. No fights or lawsuits. They didn't spend a lot of money on the lottery and they won a cushion.

Comment #4

nrlightfoot — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:04:51 GMT

Speaking of making mistakes reading tickets, I just about threw away my ticket for Fridays mega millions drawing because I got forgot what day it was and thought tuesdays numbers were for the friday drawing. Fortunately I keep my losing tickets around for a few days and check them again, so I didn't toss it.

Comment #3

Litebets27 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:58:22 GMT

You said a mouth full!!!

Too many desparate people out here now days.

litebets

Comment #2

ThatScaryChick — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:58:09 GMT

Congrats to him. He was lucky that he got an honest store clerk to tell him that he won a lot more then $150.

Comment #1

JackpotWanna — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:50:36 GMT

WOW~ $1 = $250,000 WTG!

VERY LUCKY

Lottery winner surprised ticket worth $250,000

Lottery Post — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:31:04 GMT

Donald Ertman got a little agitated when he found out he'd have to make the 150-mile trip to Lansing to collect his lottery winnings. All that for $150, he complained.

Then the owner of the store that sold Ertman the $1 Mega Millions ticket set him straight: It was worth not $150, but a cool quarter of a million.

I didn't believe him not at first, Ertman told The Bay City Times.

The 71-year-old laid-off factory worker bought the ticket in late December at the Bad Axe Party Store B... [ More ]