Lottery Winner’s Comedy Of Errors
Published: June 18, 2005
Brad Duke knew the numbers he was seeing on the Powerball Web site seemed familiar, like the ones he’s been playing for four years.
And, as the Star, Idaho, native looked more closely late last month, he couldn’t believe his eyes: It appeared he’d won the $220 million jackpot.
It turned out Duke was the second-biggest sole winner ever of a Powerball jackpot.
But, as he explained to The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm Friday, confirming it wasn’t easy.
Duke says he left his computer and “went out to my vehicle and got my ticket. And then I came back in. The numbers matched, but it says right on the Web site that there may be mistakes and it is not 100 percent verifiable. And I thought I should get over to the lottery commission.
“But I was out of gas, so I stopped at a gas station to get gas to get to the lottery commission. And that’s when I decided to run it through the verification machine at the service station. And that’s when I knew that I’d won.”
The employees were gleeful, Duke says: “One of the girls was doing a little tilt-a-whirl (dance )inside the area there. And I was trying to get the ticket back from her. She was so excited, she forgot to give me the ticket.” Finally, she did.
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