Impatient Woman Cuts Line And May Have Cost Herself 17 Million

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11969987

Good manners have paid dividends for a man in the Philippines who won 741m pesos ($17m: £10.5m) in a lottery.



An official for the national lottery said the father-of-three was next in a queue to buy a ticket when a woman rudely pushed in ahead of him.
He graciously let her go ahead, and in turn he bought the winning ticket, choosing "lucky pick" numbers.


He is believed to be a Filipino in his sixties, living in the US, who was back in the Philippines visiting family.



The lottery agency has a policy of keeping the names of winners secret, partly to protect them from kidnap attempts.


When the draw was made on 29 November, nobody had won the lottery since 15 May.



The prize money had accumulated over 86 consecutive draws to become the country's biggest ever jackpot and millions of people bought tickets.


The winner beat odds of one in nearly 29m.


But the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) says he forgot to check the lottery numbers for a week and when he realised he had won, his response was gracious.


"When he won, he kept thinking: how sad for that woman. She could have won the big prize if she had just been patient," PCSO chair, Margie Juico told AFP.

talk about karma... politeness is truly important

incredible.

If it was computer generated picks you'd still have to punch in the ticket at the exact millisecond to get those numbers correct, so she wouldn't have got that ticket anyhow.

At least that is my understanding of how a RNG works.

Either way, Karma is a Bitch

Doug said:

If it was computer generated picks you'd still have to punch in the ticket at the exact millisecond to get those numbers correct, so she wouldn't have got that ticket anyhow.

At least that is my understanding of how a RNG works.

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Come on Doug don't ruin it with your math bullshit......hehe

Here is another woman who decided she didn't have money for 2 tickets...


NANUET — Seema Dhimmer stops by her parents' convenience store almost every day after work, but her decision to visit them on Sept. 15 has made her rich.The 26-year-old physical therapist from Nanuet won $3 million from a New York Lottery scratch-off ticket that she bought in the store.
"It's overwhelming," she said following a news conference Wednesday in front of the Corner News and Deli on Main Street.
What makes her story even more remarkable is that Dhimmer didn't even set out to buy a ticket. A woman in front of her asked for two "Make Me Rich" tickets. Upon learning they cost $10 each, she decided to purchase only one.

Dhimmer, who plays the lottery "once in a while," said she figured she would buy the other scratch-off."There was no reason. She didn't want it, so I took it," said Dhimmer, whose greatest bit of financial luck prior to winning the jackpot was finding $26 on the beach.


Dhimmer didn't immediately realize she had won. None of the numbers matched, and when she scratched off the last box, she thought she might be an automatic winner. She asked her dad, who was behind the counter, to verify the ticket, and he told that she had won.


"If that's not the definition of random, I don't know what is," New York Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman said, adding that there is no rule that prohibits store owners from buying tickets or selling them to family.


The woman who ended up not buying the ticket had left the store by the time Dhimmer learned she won.
Gayatri Dhimmer, who has owned the store with her husband, Pravin, for four years, said customers have won $10,000 and $21,000 in the past, but nothing like this.


"I'm happy for her, but still, I can't believe it," said Gayatri Dhimmer, who moved to Rockland from New Jersey a few years ago.
Dhimmer moved back home after she graduated from the New York Institute of Technology in Long Island.
Even though she will take home $99,045 a year after taxes for the next 20 years, she plans to keep working.


She said she hasn't splurged on anything yet but plans to pay off college loans and wants to buy a new car. She can't decide whether to get a Lexus or an Audi. And, of course, she intends to take care of her parents.
"They're very happy for me," Dhimmer said.