$200,000 Powerball prize awarded on day lottery ticket was set to expire

Comment #13

dk1421 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:21:40 GMT

I, too, have some old tickets I haven't checked yet. And considering that NC claims are less than a year, I really need to check them more often.

Usually they are ones from when we are traveling and my hubby buys one (which is unusual) and then it ends up mixed in the receipt drawer (which he hasn't cleared in months).

Comment #12

bashley572 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:36:20 GMT

Yup, I fill shoe boxes up each year in case I need 'losing' tickets for tax purposes..

Comment #11

corius$1918! — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:03:46 GMT

I also have tickets a year old. Sometimes with work, school and church time goes by fast so it may be a couple of months before i get to check them.

i still hold on for a year in case there's some scandal about machine malfunction and the incorrect numbers were given as winners.

long shot i know, but i;m laughing at myself also.

Comment #10

tiggs95 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:23:29 GMT

Some of these storie's are somtime hard to believe??..

Comment #9

wizeguy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:26:55 GMT

Just goes to show you that you should always listen to your Mother

Comment #8

beaudad — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:45:46 GMT

I would think that Hospitals and Universities get state and federal money to expand...................Oh well.............congrats to the guy and to his mom ......him for keeping the ticket and her for reminding him.....It's what mothers do Best!!!!!!!!!!!.......beaudad.........

Comment #7

dopey7719 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:06:11 GMT

WOW!!! I throw all of my tickets away after checking them. Never occurred to me to keep them all. Maybe I should start doing that....what do ya'll think

Comment #6

Kaptainess — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:22:20 GMT

THAT is one place I stopped playing because they don't have the right attitude towards their customers. Use to be a nice place until they sold it to new owners. It seems like a ''bother'' to them to work the lottery machine. I know a few people that still go there, but not me.

I have a box - okay a BIG box that I throw all my tickets in once I check them, never know if you need them or not. Anyway, expensive wall paper or do some craft work with? Yes, the box has tickets well over a year, I... [ More ]

Comment #5

RJOh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:03:55 GMT

He might have just enjoyed quietly hanging on to his winning ticket while watching others who bought tickets at the same place worry that they bought it and lost it. It's hard to believe he bought and saved lottery tickets for a year never checking to see if he won anything and then on the day the ticket was to expire checked and found the year old winning ticket near the top of the pile.

Comment #4

ThatScaryChick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:13:12 GMT

He is lucky that his mom reminded him to check his old tickets. Otherwise he would be out $200,000.

Comment #3

Editgap — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:54 GMT

How can someone find the winning ticket they've had for over a year they didn't know about

Comment #2

konane — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:49:01 GMT

Comment #1

MaddMike51 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:40:47 GMT

How can someone have a winning lottery ticket for a year and not know it

$200,000 Powerball prize awarded on day lottery ticket was set to expire

Lottery Post — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:30:33 GMT

Mother urged winner to check tickets, having heard news of upcoming expiration

William H. Greer of Philadelphia is the winner of a $200,000 Powerball prize that was set to expire at 4:30 p.m. today.

At Choi's Food and Beer, 3987 Ford Rd, in the Wynnefield section of the city, they knew the ticket sold there that matched all five white numbers (but not the red Powerball number) from last year's June 18th drawing was still out there somewhere.

My mother saw the news about the unclaimed t... [ More ]