Couple finds $50,000 lottery ticket three months after losing it

A Kentucky couple found a lottery ticket they thought was lost that turned out to be worth $50,000. Bowling Green resident Mark Perdue purchased the Powerball ticket in October 2023 at an AM Express store.

However, it was during a later visit to the same establishment, while purchasing a Diet Mountain Dew, that the owner congratulated him on winning the lottery.

“A few days later, when I returned to the store to buy a Diet Mountain Dew, the owner congratulated me. I asked ‘why?’ and he told me ‘You won the lottery.’ I responded ‘I wish’. And she said ‘Yes, you did, I have you on video,'” Perdue said.

For three months, Mark and his wife searched intensively for the ticket, which they feared they had accidentally thrown away.

“I’ve been blaming myself for three months thinking I threw away this ticket. I actually threw away a ticket, but it was an old one. Then I convinced myself that maybe it was this ticket,” Mark’s wife confessed.

Perdue is the president of a company called Kiriu USA. In early February he received a visitor in town from another plant, and that visitor was going to use a company vehicle.

Because of this, Perdue went to inspect the company vehicle and it was at that moment that he saw the lottery ticket in the front seat.

Mark’s theory is that the ticket must have fallen out of his pocket the last time he used the vehicle, something he doesn’t normally do.

“If I hadn’t needed the car, I don’t know how much longer I would have been there,” said the lucky winner.

With their new fortune, the couple plans to pay off some debts and treat themselves to a trip.

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