Lottery ticket tip turns into $300 windfall for waitress

Judy Lemieux got a tip from Larry Martin that was worth $300

He isn't a cop, she isn't a waitress, but bartender Judy Lemieux's $300 winning lottery ticket given as a tip by friend and customer Larry Martin, is reminiscent of the movie "It Could Happen to You."

In the 1995 movie, a cop gave a lottery ticket to a waitress as a tip and the ticket won a million dollars.

In the Mountain Home April 17 version of the story, Jovial Jerry's customer Larry Martin gave one of his rapid-refund lottery tickets to bartender Judy Lemieux as a tip.

Lemieux said he had tipped her two tickets earlier, neither of which had won anything. "He had two left and he threw one down for me and kept one for himself," she said.

Martin said Lemieux told him: "Yea, like I ever win anything."

She asked him what he'd won on his ticket and he told her three dollars. He asked her what she won and said she yelled, "I won $300!"

Martin said at first he regretted giving her the ticket, but felt, "that's just the way it works, and she really deserves it." He mentioned he had already won $300 on a ticket he had bought the previous week.

With tips averaging from $1-$20, Lemieux said that was easily the biggest tip she has ever received.