Post Date: 15th Jan, 2011 - 4:00pm / Post ID:
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Clerk's Mistake Wins Woman $1 Million Prize
I'm pretty sure the clerk was expecting a little of that $1 million dollar prize however it seems like the winner doesn't plan to give her anything, after all it was indeed a mistake.
QUOTE This is what you call a happy accident.
Pamela Ivey of Georgetown, Ky., planned to pay $5 for her Mega Millions lottery ticket. The clerk who sold her the ticket, however, added the prize multiplier feature and asked her for $10, WLKY-TV reported.
"I glanced at her name tag and it said Susan, and I thought, 'Oh Susan, don't do that to me,'" Ivey said, according to WLWT.
Susan had done Ivey, 42, a favor. When the drawing took place, Ivey's numbers came up. With the multiplier feature, she won $1 million rather than the $250,000 she would have won without it.
"I dropped to my knees and praised God," Ivey said, according to the Kentucky Lottery website...