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Granny bins jackpot ticket
12/03/2007 12:23 - (SA)
Berlin - A 79-year-old grandmother in
Germany rescued a fortune from oblivion after she realised a
lottery ticket she had thrown in the bin was worth more than
€13.7m (R131.9m).
"She searched and searched, turned the house upside down,
but couldn't find the ticket," said Elmar Bamfaste, a spokesperson
for the WestLotto lottery in northwestern Germany.
"Finally, she
looked in the rubbish bin, and there it was. She was lucky."
Bamfaste said the woman copied the winning numbers from her
horoscope in a magazine, and then forgot about the ticket. She
later threw away both the magazine and the ticket.
After WestLotto launched a media campaign to find the winner
on Monday, the resident of the Bergisches Land region in western
Germany realised she had hit the jackpot.
Three days later, she found the €11.75 ticket that
netted her the 8th highest lottery win in German history.
"She said she's looking forward to life as a rich grandma,"
Bamfaste said of the woman, who lives in a rented flat.
- Reuters
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