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New York Post
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Eerie ‘premonition' inspires Lotto player to buy $80K ticket, but she has to save it from trash
From trash can to treasure. A Kentucky woman narrowly avoided a costly mistake when she tossed an $80,000 lottery ticket in the trash after a sixth sense told her she should buy it, according to authorities. Pamela Howard-Thorton, of Shepherdsville, had a feeling she should enter the $5 Flamingo Bingo scratch-off lottery, and finally took a chance at a Speedway in Lebanon Junction, the Kentucky Lottery said in a statement. Pamela Howard-Thorton nearly tossed an $80,000 winning Flamingo Bingo ticket in the trash. Kentucky Lottery 'I just had this premonition – go get that ticket,' Howard-Thorton said, according to the organization. After winning $200 from a previous scratch-off, she decided to return to the store to buy four more. 'They laid on the counter all day long. I had forgotten about them, so at about 11:30 that night I decided to play them,' she recalled. 'The first three were not winners so I put them in the trash. Then I was like, 'Where's my fourth ticket?' I looked in the trash and I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I threw it away, ' she said. The lucky winner plans to buy herself a new car, pay bills, and toss some of her new money to her mother. Kentucky Lottery The fourth ticket she lured from the trash turned out to be the $80,000 top prize ticket. 'I scanned it, of course, I started crying, and I started shouting and screaming,' she said. 'I immediately called my daughter and my mom. My mom has always said she would give anything if she could just see me hit a big ticket before something happens to her. When I called her the night I won, she was so thankful and happy for me.' Howard-Thorton's final prize will be $57,600 after taxes. She plans to buy herself a new car, pay bills and toss some of her winnings to her mother, the statement said.
UPI
25-06-2025
- General
- UPI
$80,000 lottery ticket rescued from the trash
An unscratched lottery ticket mistakenly thrown into the trash by a Kentucky woman was rescued and found to be an $80,000 winner. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo June 25 (UPI) -- A Kentucky woman rescued an unscratched lottery ticket from the trash and discovered it was an $80,000 winner. Shepherdsville resident Pamela Howard-Thorton told Kentucky Lottery officials the $5 Flamingo Bingo scratch-off ticket had caught her eye before, but she had never bought one until her recent visit to a Speedway in Lebanon Junction. "I just had this premonition -- go get that ticket," the player recalled. She used $200 in winnings from another ticket to buy four Flamingo Bingo games. "They laid on the counter all day long. I had forgotten about them so at about 11:30 that night I decided to play them," Howard-Thorton recalled. "The first three were not winners so I put them in the trash. Then I was like, 'Where's my fourth ticket?' I looked in the trash and I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I threw it away.'" The ticket she rescued from the trash turned out to be an $80,000 winner. "I scanned it, of course, I started crying, and I started shouting and screaming," she said. "I immediately called my daughter and my mom. My mom has always said she would give anything if she could just see me hit a big ticket before something happens to her. When I called her the night I won, she was so thankful and happy for me."
