$20 found in San Francisco leads to $1 million lottery win
Source: AP
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A San Francisco Bay Area man won $1 million in the California Lottery after buying a winning ticket with money he found at the airport.
The California Lottery said Sunday that Hubert Tang had not bought a lottery ticket in 10 years.
When he found a $20 bill on the street outside San Francisco International Airport last week, he used it to buy two scratch-off tickets at a market in Millbrae.
One of them led to the $1 million top prize.
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SpankMe
(2,969 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)brooklynite
(94,745 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)trueblue2007
(17,240 posts)Archae
(46,354 posts)Bought a scratch-off ticket (2 actually,) with $2 of the ten-spot, won $80.
miyazaki
(2,251 posts)some tickets/scratchers next time I find some money and ride the lucky streak.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)because I got addicted to the slot machine!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Someone had written "Lucky Dollar: Good for winning the lottery" on it, so when I had the chance, I bought a lottery ticket with it. I didn't win anything, not even a consolation prize.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)The company he was working for paid the Christmas bonus in lottery tickets one year. My husband got $50 face value which only paid him $2. It really sucked.
It also pissed off a lot of the people who were hoping to have cash for their bonus. Not one of the people my husband talked to got as much as the face value of the lottery tickets in return. Many refused the tickets since gambling was against their religion - and they got nothing at all.
The company never did that again - in fact, they stopped giving bonuses at all.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)That's just plain wrong.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)I was so glad when he left that job. It sucked big time and the lottery ticket fiasco was only a part of it.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)I mean, think about it... He should.
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)about the "finding the money on the street outside the airport" part.
Psephos
(8,032 posts)In Illinois, he would only "win" an IOU from the state.
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/19250-illinois-lottery-winners-getting-paid-with-ious
Javaman
(62,534 posts)I walked up to get cash out, looked down and there was 40 bucks.
I was the most bizarre thing.