Lottery Winners Win Twice On Same Draw
What are the odds....
If there was any time that you would want to accidently purchase a second lottery ticket for the same numbers you play...Wow talk about LUCKY!
LONDON (Reuters) - A lottery winner doubled his share of the jackpot to nearly 1 million pounds after he mistakenly bought two lucky tickets for the same draw, organizers Camelot said Wednesday.
Derek Ladner, 57, from Cornwall, and his wife Dawn, 60, won with their usual numbers in the mid-week draw, sharing the 2.4 million pounds jackpot with four other tickets.
A week later, he found a second identical ticket in his wallet and realized he had absent-mindedly entered twice.
Their double-share of the jackpot is worth just under a million pounds.
The pair have handed in their notice at work and are taking a break to decide how to spend their windfall.
"It's beginning to sink in," Ladner told a news conference. "We are going on holiday first...and then think about what we are going to do for the rest of our lives."
Now if this was in Canada, this may throw up a red flag because of the recent lottery-scandels of insiders winning. But I like to give people the benefit of the doubt so I truly believe this is really the luckiest people in the UK!
If there was any time that you would want to accidently purchase a second lottery ticket for the same numbers you play...Wow talk about LUCKY!
LONDON (Reuters) - A lottery winner doubled his share of the jackpot to nearly 1 million pounds after he mistakenly bought two lucky tickets for the same draw, organizers Camelot said Wednesday.
Derek Ladner, 57, from Cornwall, and his wife Dawn, 60, won with their usual numbers in the mid-week draw, sharing the 2.4 million pounds jackpot with four other tickets.
A week later, he found a second identical ticket in his wallet and realized he had absent-mindedly entered twice.
Their double-share of the jackpot is worth just under a million pounds.
The pair have handed in their notice at work and are taking a break to decide how to spend their windfall.
"It's beginning to sink in," Ladner told a news conference. "We are going on holiday first...and then think about what we are going to do for the rest of our lives."
Now if this was in Canada, this may throw up a red flag because of the recent lottery-scandels of insiders winning. But I like to give people the benefit of the doubt so I truly believe this is really the luckiest people in the UK!
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