Powerball Lottery Ticket Story Remembered

Ever wondered how you'd react if you won some lottery millions? Would you talk to the media or keep your identity secret? Imagine this scenario: you've won 10s of millions of dollars on a ticket you bought in - shall we say - a place you really don't want your wife, or your granny for that matter, to know you frequent. The story is already all over the newspapers and everyone is waiting for the winner to come forward. What do you do?

This is precisely the dilemma that a certain Michigan lottery winner faced recently. The Powerball ticket, worth nearly 70 million dollars, was purchased at a seedy Detroit adult bookstore in October. It took a while for anyone to "admit" they were the lucky winner, but when someone did own up, it seemed that a strategy for salvaging reputations was in place...

49-year-old Mike Greer came forward as the representative of a group of "family and friends" who are the newly-made millionaires. He hinted that some of the cash will be put to Christian use: "The only thing I can assume is that the Lord trusted us to do certain things with the money that he bestowed upon us," he said. "That's the only thing I can gather."

Greer would say only that the group consists of more than two but fewer than 100 souls. He emphasized that he hadn't bought the ticket, and that the group didn't care where it had been bought. It should be pointed out that the shop has an external lottery window, so people aren't obliged to view the adult products when buying a ticket there.

In any case, the group has opted for a lump sum payout of their prize, rather than annual installments.

Of course all this could be avoided, save the win - that can still very much happen, if you buy your Powerball and other lottery tickets online. Sites like The Lotter and others sell Powerball tickets and other online lotteries.