Lottery winner luggage £800,000 jackpot by listening to savvy store employee’s recommendation
A bloke is absolutely minted after bagging a $1.14million (£800,000) lottery win all thanks to a clever tip-off from a savvy shop worker.
Jeremy H, from Pennsylvania in the United States, hit the jackpot by switching his usual game on the advice of a clued-up clerk at a local store. Chatting to Pennsylvania Lottery officials, he told how the employee said a lot of winners had been coming in lately.
The move encouraged him to increase his plays and then he snagged his Match 6 Lotto tickets for the draw on Saturday, May 20. The lucky man got them from Rutter’s on West Main Street in Fawn Grove, reports the Mirror.
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Jeremy had totally forgotten about his purchase until an alert gave him a nudge. “I don’t normally play Match 6, but the clerk at Rutter’s told me they get a lot of winners, so for the past few months, I’ve been buying tickets once a week,” he said.
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“I left the ticket on my kitchen counter and forgot to check it. I got an alert on my phone that Monday from NewsBreak saying a winning ticket was sold at the Rutter’s.”
Realising the winner could be him, Jeremy checked and was gobsmacked to find out he’d scooped the $1.14million prize. Recounting his disbelief, he said: “I immediately called my brother and said, ‘You will never believe this!”.
Jeremy was over the moon as he rang up his relatives to share the incredible news. “Then I called my other brother and then my wife. I never thought I would win anything like this in my life.”
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Unlike some jackpot winners who dash to ditch their day jobs, Jeremy, the boss of an asphalt firm, has no plans to down his tools just yet. He’s got his sights set on stashing the cash for a cushy retirement and sprucing up his home, revealing: “I’ll probably put the money away for retirement and some house projects.”
But it wasn’t all about the lucky clerk for Jeremy; he felt there was a higher power at play too, adding: “I’m still taking it all in, I’m very thankful. I think someone from above was looking out for me.”
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