Why Detroit Man Rolled $1 Million Lottery Ticket in Flour

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If you knew you had a winning lottery ticket worth a cool $1 million, where would you stash it while you prepared for the windfall?

Don’t pick the flour canister, because as of Thursday in Michigan, that hiding place has already been taken.

Fred Morgan, a soon-to-retire postal worker from Detroit, stashed the ticket in the flour canister after he learned he’d picked the winning numbers – 15, 18, 29, 41 and 50 – in the April 17 drawing for Michigan’s Mega Millions lottery game, the Associated Press reports.

The flour canister was one of a few places where Morgan and his wife hid the ticket while they got their affairs in order. He bought the million-dollar ticket at a Mobil gas station at 25828 Ford Road in Dearborn Heights.

“We watched that ticket carefully,” Morgan said, according to a story on WDIV-TV. “We thought somebody may look in the sugar jar, but no one would ever check for anything valuable in the flour.”

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Morgan said he couldn’t sleep or eat for several days while he waited to redeem the ticket with Michigan Lottery authorities.

He will have plenty of time to catch up on both. He said he’s retiring after 31 years as a carrier for the U.S. Postal Service.

“I started cleaning out my locker at work and my boss asked me what was going on,” Morgan said, according to the WDIV report. “I told him ‘I got a million and I’m retiring!’ ”

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