Forgotten “Cash For Life”
A Michigan man claimed a $25,000 a year for life lottery prize — after forgetting about his winning ticket — twice. 70-year-old Floyd Warstler said that he bought his ticket for the Aug. 13 Lucky For Life drawing at a gas station, but he forgot about the ticket for a month.
About a month later, he realized he’d never checked it, and when he scanned it at a store, he got a message to make a claim at the lottery office.
He figured he might have won about $5,000. Later, his girlfriend spotted the ticket in his car, checked the number online, and told him he’d won $25,000 – a year for life!
Unbelievably, he still didn’t claim his prize for a few more months because they “went south for the winter a few days later”. Warstler took his prize as a $290,000 lump sum, which he plans to invest.
