Florida Woman Wins $590 Million in Powerball Because Someone Let Her Cut in Line

For weeks now, we've known that the record setting $590 MILLION Powerball jackpot winning ticket was purchased in Florida; we just didn't know who made that purchase.  She's 84 year old Gloria Mackenzie of Zephyrhills, Florida, and yesterday she appeared in the lottery offices with her son Scott, a few friends, and a couple lawyers.  

She took the lump sum of $370 million, so after taxes she's $270 MILLION richer.   Man, that will buy a whole lot of denture cream.

After she claimed her prize, she and her family drove back to her modest gray duplex across from a cow pasture.  It has a tin sheet roof and an old TV antenna on top.

She wasn't talking to reporters, but one neighbor told them, quote, "I hope she gets a better place to live."

Gloria bought the ticket at a Publix grocery store, and let the machine pick the numbers.  And from what we're told, she only got the winning ticket because a guy was nice enough to let her cut ahead in line.

So, we're guessing the moral to the story is: Being nice to old ladies can cost you hundreds of millions of dollars.