Man in disbelief over big lottery win rushes to store to confirm. ‘Thought it was fake’
As a Maryland man watched Sunday football, he got a sudden urge, one telling him to buy a lottery ticket.
“You ever have one of those days when everything is going right?” the man said in an Aug. 29 Maryland Lottery news release. “I was having one of those days and then I saw a Lottery commercial and thought to myself, ‘I’m going to play.’”
He trekked to a Baltimore food market “to try his luck” and bought a Pick 5 ticket, according to lottery officials.
Later, he asked a friend to send him the winning numbers for the midday drawing, lottery officials said.
“When I saw my numbers looking back at me, I thought it was fake,” he said, per the release.
In disbelief, the man headed back to the store to scan his ticket and verify his win.
And, sure enough, the man won a $50,000 prize, according to lottery officials.
He shared the good news with his mother, and she, too, was in disbelief.
“I thought he was kidding when he told me,” she told lottery officials. “When I saw it was real, I smirked and said, ‘What’s my cut?’”
The man told lottery officials he plans to tuck away his winnings into savings.
This story was originally published August 29, 2024 at 5:18 PM with the headline "Man in disbelief over big lottery win rushes to store to confirm. ‘Thought it was fake’."
