New Delhi: A worker at the Ford Motor Company's Assembly Plant in Atlanta won a $225,000 lottery the day he was to lose his job and the plant was to stop production.
Jerome McInnis, 52, of College Park, Georgia, bought a $5 instant game ticket on Friday morning when he stopped for gas.
In a statement issued by the Georgia Lottery Corp, McInnis said he was so excited when he won the prize, he drove off without putting gas in his tank even though he had paid for the gas.
The 13-year employee of the Hapeville, Ga, plant won the first of six top prizes in the "Bah Humbucks" instant game, the lottery statement said.
McInnis had taken an early retirement package after Ford announced in January that it would stop production at the plant.
About 1,950 employees lost their jobs and were given their choice of one of eight kinds of severance packages when the plant ceased production of the Ford Taurus sedan on Friday morning.
"This comes at a great time," McInnis, who plans to invest the money, told the Journal-Constitution. "This will enable me to take care of everything."
Ford has been forced to close factories and lay off employees as it struggles to restructure itself to compete better against more efficient Japanese automakers.
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