A clerk who issued the wrong ticket to a lottery customer has ended being the customer’s lucky star, after that ticket turned out to net the lucky winner $381,000 in the US Powerball lotto.
The mistake has occurred numerous times over the years, and customers are often happy to accept the wrongly printed tickets, hoping that the error was a lucky mistake. In the past, this has seldom lead to anything substantial being won. However, that has all changed now.
Just recently, a clerk working in a US 7 Eleven shop issued a single $2.00 ticket for the US Powerball, instead of the two tickets to the Mega Millions draw the customer had asked for. As has been the case in the past, Pat Tucker (the customer) happily snapped up the erroneous ticket, as deemed it a “lucky ticket”. Lucky it turned out to be, offering the customer the second largest prize the Powerball has to offer, after he bagged all of the numbers bar one in the draw.
It is unknown if the customer decided to buy their regular lottery tickets for the Mega Millions all the same, but either way, they didn’t win with them.
The Powerball winner has recently been interviewed, and said that he plans to add extensions to his home, and that he will continue to buy his tickets from the same 7 Eleven shop.
The 7 Eleven shop is on West Olive Avenue in Burbank, California, and the total winnings are worth $380,774. The clerk – a Mr Manjit Singh – has continually sold tickets to the man before, often 2 tickets twice per week, so it is just blind luck that he made the mistake at the time he did.
According to Mr Singh, the happy winner comes in every single day and continues to joke with the staff. Mr Singh commented that “he’s very friendly”, and obviously, quite a lucky guy, too.
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