Unsuspecting winner finds the right kind of ticket sitting on his dashboard
By Kate Northrop
GRANITE FALLS, Wash. — While many loathe the thought of discovering a ticket sitting on the car windshield, a forgotten lottery ticket worth $2 million sitting on his dashboard turned out to be an early holiday present for one Washington man.
A winning lottery ticket worth $2 million went unnoticed for a month as it sat undisturbed on a Granite Falls man's dashboard until he decided to clean out his car.
The unsuspecting lottery player bought a Powerball ticket on Sat., Nov. 6 for that night's drawing from the IGA grocery store on Granite Avenue in Granite Falls. He put it on his car's dashboard, where it would sit for an entire month.
Then, the anonymous winner decided that now was as good of a time as ever to clean out the car. The ticket must have been kept hidden by the "junk" apparently collecting on his dashboard, which he had begun to toss out.
Thankfully, the ticket did not find its way into the trash bin, rather it was discovered to be a big winner. And while the ticket did not match all six numbers — 8, 30, 48, 57, 64 and Powerball 9 — to win the $143.7 million jackpot, it did earn him a nice $2 million prize.
According to the Washington Lottery, he shared the news with his father first before visiting the Lottery's Everett regional office to claim his prize. With the winnings, he plans to invest in a couple of rental properties.
I think the "junk" protected the ticket. I left a loser tic on my dash just to see what the sun would do to it.
It was unreadable in about ten days.
One man's junk is another man's treasure!
Now you see the high number of winning tickets that go unclaimed.
I am hoping for a $2 million winner myself on Wednesday night!-weshar75
People always make up stories when they win... and people believe it... when i win i can't wait to make up a nice storie..
Check with Todd. He can make up a good one for ya.
He once regaled us with a tale of the utter horror of being struck by lightning at the same moment you're being bitten by a shark. That one still cracks me up.
The same thing I was thinking. Each time there this dramatic story. Geesh!
What is it with these stories. Seem like every big winner
either finds a winning ticket, what they had purchased and threw
away or finds one someone else threw away.
Im going to buy my next one and just keep it laying around, for months before I check it out, see if that will flow 💰 to me.
Whoa! I guess I missed a lot over the last 7 years!
I take a short break, come back, and Todd's a dadgum movie star!
This is exactly why I like online subscriptions. The UK National Lottery has one of the best online services. Players can pay by direct debit and prize money is automatically credited to the same account. Unless you win a major prize or jackpot, then the lottery contacts the lucky winner with the good news and the claims process begins.
It's basically heresay unless we can authenticate the story. The media strategically. inserts/omits facts based on what will sell.
Wait, you're saying the lottery is making up the winner's story about leaving the winning ticket on his car's dashboard? Seems like a very oddly specific thing for them to make up. I don't think the story will sell thousands of lottery tickets. If they were to make up stories to generate interest and sales, I don't think this is the one they would run with.