Woman over-excited about '$60,000' lotto win realises she's actually won $60 million
A trip to town to pick up chicken feed and treats for children has turned out to be an extraordinary outing for a Canadian family - taking home an entire $60 million lottery jackpot.
Robin Walker said she had gone into a store in the tiny hamlet of Peers in Alberta while her husband, Brett McCoy, waited in the car with their daughter.
Mr McCoy gave his partner a handful of lotto tickets and told her she may as well check them while she was there - and she discovered her numbers matched those on the screen.
But with all the excitement she hadn't realised just how much money they had won.
“I hollered out the door, ‘Brett! Get in here, you’ve got to see this, we won $60,000,’ ” Ms Walker said.
“The clerk looks at me and she says, ‘Robin — you need to count the zeros.’ ”
The mother of four told media that when she the scanned tickets the first drew a blank, but with another one a “whole bunch of numbers came up on the screen.”
When Ms Walker registered that their lucky day had arrived she yelled out to her husband.
The jackpot is said to be the largest in the province's history, the Edmonton Journal reports.
The couple, who met while they worked at an oilfield company, said it still doesn't seem real.
Ms Walker now looks after the family's hobby farm and is a stay-at-home mother.
The self-described “common, every-day, blue-collar Albertans" have bought a new truck with their winnings but are taking some time to figure out what to spend the rest of the windfall on, Edmonton Journal reports.
Ms Walker said their family had been rich in different ways prior to winning the jackpot, but it will certainly make life easier.
She added that it could help many other people also.
“We had everything; now we just have money as well,” Ms Walker said.
