Small Town Speculates On Lottery Winner

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 posted 08:00 PM EST

Facing odds of 176-million-to-one, someone in the Buckeye state bought the winning ticket to Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing, worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

That winner bought the ticket in the small town of Lyons, Ohio up in Fulton County. It is a farming community with just one stop light in town.

Fewer than 600 people live there and now everybody's wondering if their neighbor has won $267 million dollars.

The ticket was bought there around noon Tuesday, and all day Wednesday, people were stopping by, asking who the winner might be.

It could be a local, but it could be someone driving through. It could also be someone from Michigan, the borders just a few miles away.

At any rate, the clerks learned they'd sold the winning ticket after an early morning phone call.

"Probably this morning, about ten minutes after I arrived. I thought they were playing a joke on me because nobody usually calls at that time of the morning. And I thought they were joking and I tried to call them back to see if it was a legitimate phone call and by that time they were calling me back again, and it was for real," says one.

It wasn't long after that that a man called the store claiming he's bought the ticket.

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