A Floridian man wins a big jackpot in Nebraska lottery recently
A Florida man stuck in Omaha with a broken car saw his luck change when he found a lucky penny — and then won $200,000 in the Nebraska Lottery.
Humberto Alejandre, 61, told lottery officials he used to be a long-haul truck driver. He missed the open road and set out from his home in Morriston, Florida, for Colorado in his car.
But Alejandre suffered car trouble along the way, according to a Nebraska Lottery press release. So he stopped at a hotel near Interstate 80 at the Nebraska Highway 50 exit in Sarpy County.
Dejected, Alejandre went out for a walk to clear his head. When he found a shiny penny face-up in the parking lot, he took it as a sign his luck was about to change, he told lottery officials.
Alejandre put the coin in his pocket and walked across the street to the Anderson Convenience Market on South 145th Street.
