Cheese worker's vacation costs her Powerball jackpot

Thursday, August 10, 2006 posted 03:43 AM EDT

FOND DU LAC, Wis. -- When Shelly Pittelko recently went on vacation, she forgot to throw her $1 into the office Powerball lottery pool.

Her oversight may have cost her a share of Saturday's $208.6 million jackpot.

About 100 of Pittelko's co-workers at Sargento Foods in Plymouth pooled their money and matched all five numbers and the Powerball. The $208.6 million jackpot is a Wisconsin record.

The winning group estimates each person will clear $500,000 and $700,000.

Pittelko said she doesn't expect her co-workers to cut her in on the winnings.

''It was my mistake by not getting in,'' she said.

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