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A man from Pennsylvania learned that lucky numbers did not expire when he was playing lottery using the numbers of a fortune cookie and that he was earning $ 1 million, have Friday announced the lottery officials.
Ronnie Martin, of Long Pond, Pennsylvania, stopped at a New Jersey gas station for one of his daily trips to the state and bought three lottery tickets in July, according to the Lottery. New Jersey. He played with the numbers of an old fortune cookie because he loved them and wanted to follow them, said the lottery officials.
When Martin scanned the tickets the next day to see if he had won, one posted a message saying "see the employee".
The clerk, Gary, would have recognized Ronnie, a regular at the gas station, and told him he must be the winner of a million dollar prize. But Martin thought Gary was making fun of him, only believing him when Gary finally scanned the bill and showed him the screen.
Martin and his wife, Shirley, will use the winnings to pay for their homes and bills, and spend the rest in savings, officials said.
The Garden State is a treasure trove of stories of improbable lottery winners. In January of this year, a New Jersey woman earned $ 5 million from a scratch ticket bought by accident. Another New Jersey woman earned a quarter of a million dollars by playing slot machines on her smartphone during a conference call in August.
Martin's winning ticket was purchased – appropriately – from Hope Township, New Jersey.
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