Wisconsin Powerball winner surprises random mom with $200 gift card on Mother's Day

Comment #12

KY Floyd — Sat, 18 May 2019 18:51:35 GMT

giving out one $200 gift card on Mothers Day won't give him many philanthropist of the year votes.

No, but who knows what else he's already done or what he'll do in the future? If the woman had simply taken the card and said Thank You we wouldn't even know about this.

Im thinking this could qualify him for some kind of irony award, though. I'm sure there are plenty of people who already wants something from him, and his moment in the spotlight happens at

Comment #11

noise-gate — Fri, 17 May 2019 05:42:05 GMT

Seems Manuel Franco is not letting the money go to his head. Not splashing out on expensive clothes. Spending on others...Hmmm.

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Stack47 — Thu, 16 May 2019 23:37:30 GMT

Probably just me, but a $768 million Powerball jackpot winner giving out one $200 gift card on Mothers Day won't give him many philanthropist of the year votes.

Comment #9

greatguy — Thu, 16 May 2019 03:51:39 GMT

Looks like he is doing more good then Jack Whittaker could ever do.

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dpoly1 — Wed, 15 May 2019 15:51:35 GMT

Nice

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sully16 — Wed, 15 May 2019 10:03:55 GMT

Great story.

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maximumfun — Wed, 15 May 2019 03:06:15 GMT

That was a lovely story

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msmillionaire — Tue, 14 May 2019 19:01:53 GMT

next time i bet he buy some people a car

Comment #4

msmillionaire — Tue, 14 May 2019 19:00:41 GMT

yes good blessings

Comment #3

TheMeatman2005 — Tue, 14 May 2019 18:30:08 GMT

A nice feel good story.

Comment #2

music* — Tue, 14 May 2019 17:48:46 GMT

with you Bleudog101. My store will be WalMart. I might reach out to a homeless shelter and see if I can do the same there.

Comment #1

Bleudog101 — Tue, 14 May 2019 16:34:10 GMT

Paying it forward, what a nice gesture. Somebody raised him properly.

Wisconsin Powerball winner surprises random mom with $200 gift card on Mother's Day

Lottery Post — Tue, 14 May 2019 15:57:20 GMT

Includes video report

A Franklin Park, Wisconsin, mother shopping Sunday at Target walked out with more than just the diapers on her list.

A young man she had never met before handed her a $200 gift card and told her he just wanted to bless a mom on Mother's Day with something unexpected.

With everything kind of going on in the world, and you just hear so much negative news, I really just wanted people to feel inspired and feel like you know, hey maybe I can do something too to spread... [ More ]