When we look back in life, we can actually admit that sometimes what we think were “mistakes” were the instances when we were provided with the chance of making a decision, sometimes, a decision that might have changed seriously the course of our lives and many times an opportunity that resulted as a gift from life. Lottery checker

David Lee Franey owns four Franey’s Food Mart locations in Owensboro. From time to time, one of his clerks will misprint a Kentucky Lottery ticket. And he has a policy, “Instead of going through the hassle of filing paperwork for a $1 ticket, I just always tell my clerks to tape them on the side of the terminal and I’ll eat the cost myself.”

Little did he know that a $200,000 winning Powerball ticket had been taped to the side of the terminal at his Carter Road location for two days. Lottery winning numbers

A player came into the store and asked for a Powerball ticket using the “Play It Again” feature. This feature allows players to present a ticket from a previous drawing and buy a new ticket with the same numbers for an upcoming drawing. “The clerk said when she initially scanned the ticket, there was a delay so she scanned it again,” Franey said. “Since she scanned it twice, there were two tickets printed — but the player only wanted the one they’d initially asked for, so she taped the extra one on the side of the terminal for me.”

After learning that a pair of $200,000 winners had been sold at the store, Kentucky Lottery security investigators initiated a series of procedures performed at any retailer that sells such a large winning ticket. During the course of the investigation, one of the store employees pointed out a ticket taped to the side of the terminal and said it had been printed on the same day the winning tickets had been sold. And when the investigator inspected the ticket he simply laughed and confirmed that it was a winner.

Franey was shocked when he learned the news. “I’ve been getting these tickets every so often for years and never really won anything,” he said. As for his plans with this lucky win, he has expressed that he will most likely just save it.

There is now law that prevents a retailer from buying lottery tickets, so Franey´s win is legal.

There is still one other $200,000 winning ticket from the store that has yet to be claimed. Kentucky Lottery officials say they have not been contacted by anyone claiming to have the ticket. The white ball winning numbers on the ticket from the December 14th drawing would be 2, 24, 46, 52 and 56. Players have 180 days from the date of a drawing to claim their prize.