Record lottery winner rushes back to work

Source:Reuters / Lottery Post
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Record lottery winner rushes back to work

Germany's biggest individual lottery winner had no time to celebrate after becoming $27 million richer because he was too worried about being late for work.

When the salesman, who was not identified by WestLotto, arrived on Thursday to buy his weekly lottery ticket at a shop in the industrial Ruhr area he was told last week's 12-euro ticket that he hadn't bothered to check had won the jackpot.

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