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Rejected Lottery Ticket Is a Winner
Tue Sep 17, 8:21 AM ET
POCONO PINES, Pa. (AP) - One person's reject can be someone else's fortune. Just ask newly rich deli clerk Paula Buckley.
The 21-year-old clerk at Pen Mart bought a $10 Power Play ticket because it was rejected by a customer — and then hit the $400,000 jackpot.
Powerball tickets can't be reissued the way other lottery tickets can, said Sally Danyluk, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission.
Buckley, whose mother is the store's manager, learned she had won Monday morning.
"I ran the ticket through the machine and it said, 'Do Not Pay' because it was a $400,000 winner, and we cannot pay those out at the store," she said.
The numbers were chosen by the machine at random.
"The first thing Paula said was she was going to pay off her mother's car. Her mom was hysterical, crying," said Georgene Pechette, who works part-time at the store.
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