A person with great luck wins a lottery. Ask the people who keep trying over and over again and literally always fail. But an American man's luck shone for him in a way he did not imagine.?
A man from North Carolina, USA, won a lottery. He showed up?at the state's lottery headquarters to collect what he thought was a $600 (Rs 46.000) prize. But he was left shocked when he realised he has won?$5,85,949 (Rs 4.5 crore).
Joshua Locklear told?North Carolina Education Lottery officials he bought a $10 50X The Cash Fast Play ticket at Pembroke Mini Mart after noticing the high jackpot prize.
He said he went to the lottery headquarters after receiving a message that told him to collect his prize money. However, he had no idea that he was the winner of the jackpot.
The man said he read the ticket and thought he had won $600. But upon arriving at the headquarters, his winnings increased to almost $6,00,000.?"When I heard, I was like, 'There's no possible way I actually hit the jackpot,'" Locklear said. "I couldn't believe it."
"I really wasn't expecting that, that's for sure," Locklear said of his win. "It really did come at the right time though." Now the 32-year-old man plans to buy a new car and a new house.
This is not the first time someone has gotten extremely lucky when it comes to the lottery. Last year, a man identified as William Newell, of Alexandria, bought 20 identical tickets for the same lottery drawing and won all 20 of them to bag a total prize of $100,000. (Rs 74 lakh).
This man from Virginia, USA after winning the Virginia Lottery, told officials he usually buys his tickets from a nearby store. But on this occasion, he bought all 20 online on October 23 for the first time ever.
He selected the numbers 5-4-1-1. And when he matched the ones drawn by the officials, the combination turned out to be the exact same. He won $5,000 for each ticket. "It feels good, no doubt about it," Newell said.
Some people are just beyond lucky.?
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