Lucky Kentucky Couple Finds Lost Powerball Ticket Worth $50,000 After Stroke of Luck

2024-03-06 21:48:37

LOUISVILLE, Ky. A Kentucky couple who thought they had lost a winning Powerball lottery ticket had two strokes of luck.

The Bowling Green couple learned in November that they had won $50,000, but couldn’t find the ticket they had purchased about a week earlier, the Kentucky Lottery said in a news release.

Mark Perdue said the owner of AM Express congratulated him when he entered the store.

“I said, ‘Why? And she told me: ‘she won the lottery.’ I said, ‘I hope.’ She said: ‘She touched you, I have you on video.’”

He and his wife then searched but did not find the bill and thought they had thrown it away.

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“I’ve been beating myself up for three months thinking that I had thrown away the bill,” said his wife.

Then in February, Perdue, who is president of Kiriu USA, went to check the condition of a company vehicle and saw the bill inside. The car, which is not used often, was needed because a visitor from another plant was in town and needed to use a company vehicle.

“I don’t know how long I would have been there if I didn’t need the car,” Perdue said. “I was shaking a little.”

He told his wife and the next day they went to lottery headquarters, where they received a check for $36,000 after taxes, according to the lottery statement. The couple said they plan to pay the bills and may take a trip.

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