Long-haul truck driver and Don Harvey and his wife Joyce never won the big prize for the tottery tickets they always bought using the same numbers. But the unintentional mistakenly-written numbers that they recently bought won them a surprised $105.8m lottery jackpot. The odds of winning were about a 176-million-to-one chance. From Ce.cn
Don Harvey's long-haul truck had almost 2 million miles (3 million kilometers) on it when its engine died this week. Now he and his wife are millionaires who bought the winning ticket for a US$105.8 million (euro78.3 million) lottery jackpot.
It was a quirky thing that she won, she said, because she always had bought lottery tickets using the same numbers. She said she recently bought a ticket, but the numbers "came out wrong." She said she decided to use those same numbers when she bought the latest ticket and bingo, it was a winner.
Joyce Harvey said she was in "absolute disbelief and shock" when she checked the numbers on her computer Thursday night and found she had the winner. "Basically, I just broke down and cried," she said Friday.
Harvey and his wife, Joyce, said they will pay off bills, help family members and think about buying a new home with their winnings. They chose to receive a US$33.3 million lump sum after taxes instead of the full amount paid out over 29 years.
