Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Man Found Old Winning Lottery Ticket
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Six point seven Light FM. Good morning, it's Jack and
- 0:02Speaker 1: Christine to start today. And you've found somebody in New
- 0:06Speaker 1: Jersey who got a little lucky.
- 0:08Speaker 2: I guess, seriously lucky Jack, there was a Pick six
- 0:11Speaker 2: New Jersey lottery ticket worth five point nine million dollars,
- 0:16Speaker 2: eight days away from being worthless, right, and you have
- 0:19Speaker 2: a year to claim your prize. No one had claimed
- 0:23Speaker 2: the prize, so New Jersey Lottery officials went all over
- 0:26Speaker 2: the news and said, hey, if this ticket doesn't show up,
- 0:29Speaker 2: this money's going to waste. It was sold at an
- 0:31Speaker 2: Exxon station in Roseland Well, a man out there said, hmmm,
- 0:36Speaker 2: that's where I buy my lottery ticket. He ran to
- 0:39Speaker 2: the gas station and asked, and they said, yeah, we
- 0:42Speaker 2: sold it. Go home and look.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Go look.
- 0:45Speaker 2: So he went home.
- 0:46Speaker 1: He said, we went there with even not the ticket.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Without the ticket, Oh wow, he said. He went home.
- 0:51Speaker 2: He checked every corner in every room, as well as
- 0:54Speaker 2: every pocket.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Every the carpet, every pair.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Of pants, until his fingers felt a crumpled piece of
- 1:01Speaker 2: paper in one of those pants pockets, pulled it out
- 1:06Speaker 2: and verified that it was a two dollars ticket that
- 1:09Speaker 2: was worth five point nine million dollars and got it
- 1:12Speaker 2: in there just in the nic of time.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I don't know, there's some reason that those stories aggravate me,
- 1:17Speaker 1: like why can't I find that crumpled piece of paper?
- 1:20Speaker 2: Same?
- 1:20Speaker 1: But then again, I'm happy finding a twenty dollars bill
- 1:23Speaker 1: in a winter coat.
- 1:24Speaker 3: Oh we all are, just whoa five point nine mil? Though?
- 1:29Speaker 1: That would be a little different.