A Tennessee family appearing on Today Friday morning claim that they’re the big winners of the Powerball ticket sold in their state.
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John and Lisa Robinson appeared in NBC’s studio and showed a ticket that had the winning numbers from Wednesday night’s record $1.6 billion drawing.
Robinson said he checked the number four times and then told his wife he’d only believe they won after hearing from state lottery officials that a winning ticket was purchased in Munford.
“Well I think the American public wants to hear from them”, Townsend said.
Robinson said he bought the winning ticket at his wife’s request at the family-owned Naifeh’s grocery on his way home from work Wednesday night, then went to sleep.
John and Lisa Robinson, from the small town of Munford, Tennessee, showed the apparent winning ticket to anchors Savannah Guthrie and Carson Daly as John pulled it from his shirt pocket.
Mrs Robinson said she would return to work on Monday and the family hopes not to leave their home in Munford, Tennessee.
Their neighbour Mary Sue Smith, told The AP that Lisa Robinson asked her Friday morning to put “No Trespassing” signs on their lawn while they’re away from their modest single-family home in Munford, a town of about 6,000 where many residents work in Memphis, about 25 miles to the south.
Balbir Atwal owner of the 7-Eleven store that sold one of the winning Powerball tickets, holds the check he received for $1 million dollars at his store in Chino Hills, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. “I knew that I wanted to get an accountant”.
Workman also said 327 tickets sold in Idaho won $100 Wednesday night. Neither of the owners of those tickets had come forward to claim the prize money as of today.
It’s called a “Power Play” and it costs an additional $1 per ticket. But they did snap their photo holding the oversized US$1 million cheque at lottery headquarters in the “Winners Lounge:”. When she realized they won, she called Tracy Leonard, who had the tickets in her desk at the school.
The other two winners are from Tennessee and Florida, and they both remained unidentified, which winners prefer predictably to not invite unwanted attention.
Kathryn told lottery officials: “I still can’t breathe”.
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“I feel very good, some lucky customer came here and made me famous”, Atwal, 57, told The Washington Post.
