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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 09:02 AM
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Lottery double shocks US granny

By Oliver Conway
BBC News, Washington


US grandmother Donna Goeppert, 55, has won $1m (£550,000) in a lottery just five months after winning the same amount in the same Pennsylvania game.

The odds of hitting the jackpot once are 1.5m to one. To do it twice, the odds rise to a staggering 419m to one.

A shocked Mrs Goeppert described how her husband reacted to the news.

"He couldn't believe it... He was, like... 'Stop messing around' and stuff like that, but he was up here in the store within probably 45 seconds."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4098322.stm
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 09:05 AM
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1. Go Granny!!
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