San Francisco – $20 Found In San Francisco Leads To $1 Million Lottery Win

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    San Francisco – A San Francisco Bay Area man won $1 million in the California Lottery after buying a winning ticket with money he found at the airport.

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    The California Lottery said Sunday that Hubert Tang had not bought a lottery ticket in 10 years.

    When he found a $20 bill on the street outside San Francisco International Airport last week, he used it to buy two scratch-off tickets at a market in Millbrae.

    One of them led to the $1 million top prize.

    He told the California Lottery that he was in shock when he won.

    “I scratched the ticket outside of the store. I told my friend who I was with that I didn’t know if it was real but, ‘I think I just won a million dollars,'” Tang said in a statement. He wasn’t immediately available for comment Monday.

    Tang, who works as a bartender, plans to save the money for now. Lottery officials said the store will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket last Wednesday.

    He also has a second chance to win up to $25,000 for the other ticket he purchased that was not a winner.

    Tang says he may begin leaving $20 bills on the street in random places to spread his good fortune.


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    MarkTwain2
    MarkTwain2
    8 years ago

    I also MAY leave $20 bills around, which just as well means that I, or Tang, may not do so.