A Tennessee couple holding one of three winning tickets for this week’s record $1.6 billion US Powerball lottery jackpot said on Friday they will keep their jobs because “you just can’t sit down and do nothing”.
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Rebecca Hargrove, second from right, president and CEO of the Tennessee Lottery, presents a ceremonial check to John Robinson, right; his wife, Lisa, second from left; and their daughter, Tiffany, left; after the Robinson’s winning Powerball ticket was authenticated at the Tennessee Lottery headquarters Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn.
However, as of Friday, the Tennessee Lottery has yet to confirm the win – Today even included “winning ticket” in quotation marks on viewers’ screens. said they had independently confirmed the victor. Although the couple wants to return to their private lives afterward, “they want to… let the public know that they’re the winners”.
The couple says they bought the ticket Wednesday night.
“Actually, (I was) a little scared because I didn’t know exactly what to do, ” John said.
John Robinson said he wasn’t nervous traveling or walking around NY with the piece of paper, worth multimillions, because no one knew he had it. “If this were a prank done by her son as they claim, I think it’s somewhat detestable”, Rechnitz told ABC 7.
The other two winning tickets were sold in Chino Hills, California, and Melbourne Beach, Florida. Ricardo also said he wants a new truck and a nice watch.
“That’s what we’ve done all our life”. The family was in New York City Friday morning on network television, and then they went to Nashville to verify their ticket.
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“I said, ‘well, I’ll believe it when the news comes on in the morning and they say there’s a victor been in Munford, ‘ ” he said. The holder of the winning ticket will share the $1.6 billion jackpot w…
Lottery officials estimate it will take about 45 minutes to verify the ticket.
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“All these years, I’ve wondered what it would be like to call my mom and tell her I won the lottery”, he said. John said. “I really didn’t feel like stopping that night, but I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll stop.’ I came home, and I wasn’t feeling good, and I handed the tickets to her and said, ‘I’m going to go lay down”‘. His wife kept an eye on the televised drawing and leapt up when she realized one of the tickets matched.
