HIGH-RISE WINDOW WASHER WINS LOTTERY

HIGH-RISE WINDOW WASHER SAYS WINNING LOTTERY IS JUST LIKE BUNGEE JUMPING

SEATTLE: James Smith is a high-rise window washer, a bungee jumper and a self-proclaimed “adrenaline junky” from Issaquah. Still, he says that winning $200,000 from Washington’s Lottery is the biggest adrenaline rush he’s had in a while. So much so that when he saw the prize on his Scratch ticket on Friday afternoon, he couldn’t go back to work. He said, “I wanted to jump on my ropes, but I was so hyper and distracted that I decided I’d better not.”

James was working that day at Westlake Center in downtown Seattle. Around noon, he went to lunch with a coworker and decided to pick up a couple of Scratch tickets at a gas station. He scratched the first ticket, and it was a $20 winner. “[My coworker] said, ‘there’s no way that next one is a winner too.” He started to scratch the second ticket and accidentally revealed some of the prize section before the game section. “All I could see was the ‘undred,’” he said. He scratched on and found that the ticket was a winner, thinking he’d won $100, he finished revealing the prize to find that it said “two-hundred thousand dollars!”

“My coworker was going nuts!” James said.

James said the adrenaline rush he got from the win was comparable to bungee jumping and was more exciting than rappelling down a 57 story building, which is the height of the tallest tower he’s worked on.

James plans to use the money to take care of some family, buy a new car, take a trip and invest the rest. He called his sister on his way to the Lottery regional office in Federal Way to give her the good news. He said she didn’t believe him at first.

James bought his $200,000 “Hot Streak” Scratch ticket at Sandhu’s Arco AM/PM in Seattle.

Source:http://www.walottery.com/MediaCenter/MediaCenter.aspx?id=526