Talk about winners. One woman from Ohio won 1 million dollars.


Indebted Mom Finds $10, Buys $1M Lottery Ticket
Woman To Take Cash Payments Over 20 Years

POSTED: 8:54 am EDT May 21, 2007



NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- A deeply-in-debt gas station clerk found a $10 bill, bought the last lottery ticket on a roll at the store where she works and wound up a millionaire, and it's not a movie.

It really happened Friday to Kristina Schneider in North Canton, Ohio.

She said she always jokes that the last ticket on a roll is the winner, and she even tried to persuade a customer to buy it, but he only had enough money for three tickets.


Then the single mother with nine maxed-out credit cards and $8,500 in debt for her associate's degree bought it herself with a $10 bill she had found in the store. It turned out to be a winner in the Magnificent Millions lottery game. Schneider promptly locked the store while she went to the restroom to be sick.

Schneider said she's still numb.

The 32-year-old woman said she'll take 20 yearly payments of about $34,500 after taxes. She said a lump sum payment would have left her "broke again in five years."

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