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OUCH. This guy has just watched more than a million dollars slip through his fingers after losing a winning lottery ticket. He’s won sympathy, though.
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SHE’S a sharp-witted, self-effacing and outspoken reality TV star. But that’s not how she became a self-made millionaire.
That’s exactly what one poor Los Angeles man is going through after the deadline to cash in his last week, the LA Times reports.
The unidentified man purchased the “lucky” ticket at a supermarket last September, but only realised he had won after seeing news reports about himself.
By that stage, he had already lost the ticket, which had all five numbers except the key Powerball number, making it good enough for a $US1 million ($A1.3 million) second place prize.
The original jackpot was for $US149 million ($A195 million), but no ticket had all six numbers.
Powerball rules require the winner to produce the actual ticket, making him ineligible to collect his winnings, a California Lottery spokesman explained.
The 180-day deadline expired on Thursday.
“I would cry,” 7-Eleven worker Gabriela Chavez told the LA Times. “I would probably punch somebody because I was so mad. I would think about it day and night, in the shower, just thinking about that Powerball ticket.”
Another Los Angeles resident, David Greenberg, told the paper: “He’s a winner, and you can’t take that away from him. I have great sympathy for him. It’s quite a thing to dream about great wealth, and then to lose it.”
There were some winners, however: by law, unclaimed prize money automatically goes to California public schools.