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Michigan man shocked by $250,000 win
- By Dido L. Arellano
- Published 02/13/2008
- US Domestic News , Weird News
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Donald Ertman got a little agitated when he found out he'd have to make the 150-mile trip to Lansing to collect his lottery winnings. Then the owner of the store that sold Ertman the $1 Mega Millions ticket set him straight: It was worth not $150, but a cool quarter of a million. The 71-year-old laid-off factory worker bought the ticket in late December at the Bad Axe Party Store & BP Gas Station, and walked around with it for six days without realizing it was worth $250,000. The Ertmans said they spend about $7 per week on lottery tickets.