14 DAY TRIAL // Imagine the luck on one woman from Pasadena who bought the winning $360M (€280M) Powerball jackpot ticket. Unfortunately, the numbers had already been announced so the ticket was not valid.
Margit Arrobio would have been a millionaire on May 15, were it not for that pesky time limit. She bought five lotto tickets at a Shell gas station in Pasadena.
"I called my gas station where I bought the ticket and I said, 'I don't get it. I have every number and yet they say there's no winner,'" Arrobio tells KABC.
She acquired them sometime around 8 p.m., but she was one hour late as they could only participate in the drawing if they were bought before 7 p.m.
Nobody wound up winning on Wednesday, and the jackpot was set at $590.5 million (€459 million) for the next draw.
[Update, May 29 2013]: A previous version of this article included a wrong time set for the lottery drawing. The error has been corrected with users' help.