See who just won $5,000 per week for life in Orange County

They say, "You can't win in the event that you don't enter," and Marc Friedman can't help but concur.

Friedman, on Friday, Feb. 28, was granted perhaps of the greatest award conceivable from Publishers Clearing House. The Irvine occupant will get $5,000 every week until the end of his life, then a recipient will get something very similar for a lifetime.

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Friedman, who works in protection deals support, said he's placed the challenge everyday for the most recent few years and has been playing irregularly since the mid-'90s — always losing in excess of a couple of dollars.

He was working Friday evening, so the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol needed to persuade him down the stairs by letting him know he needed to finish paperwork for a transient bundle.

Friedman was confused when he got the news. "I figured it very well may be (a major payday)," he said. "However, truly?"

After accepting his underlying installment of $50,000, Friedman said he'll place the cash in the bank. He said he'll presumably do some home remodel and get away however hadn't contemplated further designs for the bonus.

Distributers Clearing House was begun in 1953 as a magazine membership office. It has granted more than $400 million in prizes.