美國又有人中了超級樂透後，一夕致富，密蘇里州一名29歲的便利商店店員，原本銀行存款只剩下不到1千元台幣，沒想到在窮困潦倒之際，中了價值81億台幣的樂透。

接過巨大的支票，這名29歲的便利商店店員，開心得不得了，原本他的帳戶存款，只剩下28.96美金，大約900元台幣，結果他在自己工作的便利商店中，買了一注5元美金的威力球彩券，卻因此鹹魚翻身，中了美國史上第十高的樂透彩金。

2.5億美金頭彩換算成台幣，高達81億，這名幸運兒說，領到獎金後，要先帶3個小孩到迪士尼樂園，好好去玩一玩。

美窮男中81億 他樂有錢補牙！

〔國際新聞中心／綜合報導〕美國男子克里斯．蕭窮到銀行存款只剩台幣900元，上週三他買了張威力球樂透彩券，讓自己的戶頭多了2億5850萬美元（約台幣81億元）。克里斯．蕭得知他是美國威力球史上金額第10高的頭彩得主後，興奮地說，這下有錢補牙了！

克里斯．蕭中獎後第一件事，就是感謝朋友平常對他慷慨解囊。他說：「我記得那些當我身上只有28美元的朋友，他們以前是我的朋友，以後也是。」

29歲的克里斯．蕭在堪薩斯市東方148公里處、馬歇爾市的一家便利商店當店員，他和女友共同養育3名小孩，生活被無數的帳單壓得喘不過氣，帳戶只剩下大約新台幣900元，他在上週三值班時刻，在自己工作的商店買了一張彩券，開獎後並沒有馬上對獎，直到隔天早上，得知自家店裡賣出頭彩，趕快掏出彩券對獎，結果欣喜若狂。當天下午5點接受記者訪問，他說自己還沒打算怎麼用這筆錢，如果一次領取，可以拿到1億2500萬美元。

Mo. clerk says he'll use $258M jackpot on bills

By SARAH D. WIRE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri man who won a $258 million Powerball jackpot and plans to use some of the money to pay bills, replace his two missing front teeth and take his children to Disney World said he hasn't decided yet if he'll quit his job at the convenience store where he bought the winning ticket.

Chris Shaw - a 29-year-old tattooed father of three who was raised by his grandparents in rural southern Missouri - came forward Thursday as the winner of the 10th-largest Powerball jackpot ever. Shaw said he had just $28.96 in his bank account and recently bought a 1998 Ford Ranger from a friend who agreed to let him pay off the $1,000 price $100 at a time. Now, he said, he no longer has to worry about how he'll pay his friend - or his utility bills.

"We didn't come from money. For us it's just going to be a huge relief to know I'm going to be able to pay my electric bill, my gas bill," Shaw told the Associated Press. "It's like a weight lifted. I had bills at home I didn't know how they were going to be paid."

Shaw said he bought the $5 ticket Wednesday at the Break Time convenience store where he works in Marshall, a central Missouri town about 80 miles east of Kansas City. He accepted his ceremonial check at the Missouri Lottery headquarters in Jefferson City wearing a tan and red plaid shirt, a red hat and a huge grin - minus two front teeth he says he lost because he didn't take care of them but can now afford to have replaced.

"I'm just a regular guy working paycheck to paycheck ... well not any more," he said.

Shaw said he needed a few days to decide whether he will keep his minimum-wage job at the store where he has worked for just three weeks. He also plans to seek advice "from people who know about money" about whether to take the jackpot in 30 payments over 29 years or the lump-sum amount of $124,875,122.

His boss, Jackie Maxwell, general manager of the Missouri-based Break Time convenience store chain, was thrilled to hear Shaw had won.

"He's just a great guy, a good employee. When you think of a large winner like this, everyone likes to see that the person who won is somebody like Chris," she said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Shaw - who has a 10-year-old son, a 7-year-old girl and a 5-year-old girl by two different women - said he had played Missouri Scratchers lottery tickets before, winning at most $80. He checked his Powerball ticket against the state lottery's website only after his girlfriend, Tosha Ewry, told him the winning ticket was bought at the store where he works.

When Shaw called Ewry back to tell her the news, she thought he was joking, he said. Finally, he said he told her: "I swear on a stack of Bibles, you need to leave work and come home."

The winning numbers were 11-34-41-49-55, Powerball 20. The Power Play number was 2.

Shaw said he looks forward to spending more time with his kids, who live with their mothers about 240 miles southeast of him in his hometown of Alton, as well as with his girlfriend's two sons - 13-year-old and 15-year-old boys Shaw says he considers his own. He plans to take them all to Disney World in Florida.

"I can be with them as much as I want now," Shaw said.

He said his children already have been asking for new skateboards, bicycles and "just stuff that's really hard to do when you make $7.25 an hour."

Break Time will receive $50,000 for selling the winning ticket. If Shaw takes a lump-sum payment, the state income taxes due on the winnings would be about $6 million, state budget director Linda Luebbering said.

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Associated Press Writer Bill Draper in Kansas City contributed to this report.