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A customer picks up her California Powerball lottery tickets at the famous Bluebird Liquor store which is considered to be a lucky retailer of tickets, in Hawthorne, California on Jan. 13, 2016.(Photo: Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)
(NEWSER)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>– A nurse in California thought she had won the world's biggest lottery jackpot, but soon discovered she had a son with the world's worst sense of humor. News that the 62-year-old mother of seven, who works at a health center in Pomona, had won the Powerball lottery spread across the country before it emerged that it was a prank by her son, who had called to tell her she had won,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>BuzzFeed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports. "It's a joke. It's a prank ... by my brother," one of the nurse's daughters tells the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>New York Daily News. "It's embarrassing. This is too much for us." She says her mother didn't discover the prank until she came home from work, where she had celebrated with colleagues. She hasn't been identified.
The "win" had been publicized by a spokesperson for nursing home owner Shlomo Rechnitz, who bought 18,000 Powerball tickets for employees and residents at the 80 nursing homes he owns, reports<span style="color: Red;">*</span>ABC7. Rechnitz tells the station that the prank is "despicable" and he will pay for an all-expenses vacation anywhere the nurse and her family would like to go. A Rechnitz spokesperson tells BuzzFeed that the nurse is a "wonderful lady and an incredible employee" who stayed to finish her shift even when she thought she had won $1.6 billion. The real winning tickets were sold in California, Tennessee, and Florida, but the winners have not come forward yet,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>AP<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports. (For 20 minutes last weekend,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>workers at this restaurant thought they'd won the jackpot.)
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