Friday, May 29, 2009

Better Late Than Never

I love stories like this one.

A 30-year-old university student in Perth, Australia, and her family were having financial problems, so she decided to re-check some old lottery tickets she had stashed in her drawer.

One of them – a birthday present from her father – was a winner. A $13-million (Australian) winner. And it was going to expire on July 22.

She apparently didn’t read the papers, which had been reporting that the winner of the region’s largest-ever Lotterywest Lotto prize had still not stepped forward.

At first, she was ecstatic because she thought she’d won $13,000. And then she rechecked her commas and decimals and realized she’d hit the jackpot.

By the way, the prize converts to more than $10.3 million US.

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