▲ Nick Slatton, winner of the 1.3 billion won lottery in Tennessee, USA (far right)
“If you buy a lottery, sign it on top of it.”
This is the advice given by the lottery authorities to a Tennessee man in the United States who almost lost his chance to become a millionaire forever and recovered it.
According to Fox News and Tennessee Lottery Bureau on the 22nd (local time), Nick Slatton, who lives in Sparta, a small town in Tennessee, received a lottery prize of $1,178,746 (about 1.33 billion won) from the State Lottery Bureau on the 11th I did.
On his way home from work on the 10th, the day before, he stopped at the Village Market, a nearby townhouse in Smithville, where he bought a drink and a lottery ticket for Tennessee Cash.
Slatton, who guessed the numbers through the Tennessee Lottery app the next morning, confirmed that he had won first place with a prize of over $1 million.
He said, “I almost fainted. I couldn’t believe it.”
Slatton went straight to her fiancee’s workplace, informed them of this, and processed the scheduled schedule one by one.
I even drove my younger brother to the auto parts store’O’Reilly Auto Parts’.
Then, at some point, I realized that the lottery was gone.
“It wasn’t anywhere,” he said.
Slatton retraced his journey from the morning and went back to the parking lot in front of the auto parts store.
And I found a lottery ticket that fell on the parking lot floor.
He said, “There was a lottery ticket next to the driver’s seat where another car was stopped. Someone stepped on it and there were traces of it,” he said.
Tennessee’s Lottery Authority advised Slatton that “it is a good idea to have a sign on it as soon as you purchase a lottery ticket. If you do so, if it is lost or stolen, it cannot be cashed by a third party.”
Slatton said he had a huge lottery prize, but he and his fiancée would continue to do what they were doing. He said he would like to buy a house and a car and invest the rest.
He added, “I hope that in the future I can live without much worries.”
(Photo = Tennessee Lottery Bureau website, Yonhap News)