The night of the PowerBall jackpot drawing, Whittaker said he got the wrong numbers from television. He went to bed Christmas night thinking he had matched only four of the five numbers, plus the PowerBall.
A spokeswoman with WSAZ-TV in Huntington said the station accidentally listed 11 instead of 16 in the series of six numbers. The jackpot numbers were: 5-14-16-29-53 and the PowerBall was 7.
The mistake almost cost Whittaker millions.
"I saw the next morning that the ticket had been sold at the station I buy biscuits and gas from every morning," he said. "I thought that the odds of me hitting five numbers and someone else hitting all six on tickets from the same place were astronomical. So I told my wife we should check it again."
A second look proved his intuition right.
Good thing he didn't toss that ticket........Stay Safe Katt !!
I dont understand how it would have cost him money. He knew he hit five of the numbers right, including the powerball. That nets him 100K. What was he going to do, throw the ticket out because it was a measly 100K? He would have still turned it in and learned he was rich.