Can You Say Lucky? This Guy Won Over $1 Million Dollars Playing The Lottery, Lost His Ticket, Then Found It
About an hour and a half outside of Nashville, Tennessee, in a city called Sparta, a man named Nick Slatten got unbelievably lucky two times in one day.
On March 10th, Nick decided to buy himself a beverage and a lottery ticket on his way home from work.
The very next morning, Nick checked his numbers, and he was in for quite a surprise.
“Ticket in hand, he noticed he had hit two numbers, and then he looked again. He had them all, making his ticket worth $1,178,746,” the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation explained in a press release.
Nick headed right over to see his fiancée Michelle at work so he could let her know the incredible news in person.
Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation; pictured above is Nick with some of his loved ones and his winnings
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Nick then left Michelle’s work, and he made several stops in town to do a few things. At some point later that afternoon, Nick suddenly noticed that he no longer had his winning ticket, and it was nowhere to be found.
“…It should be noted that lottery tickets are bearer instruments, just like cash,” the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation pointed out.
“If a player loses his ticket, anyone can claim it. The Lottery always encourages players to sign their ticket immediately after purchase to identify it as theirs and to help prevent someone else from cashing it, in the event that it is lost or stolen.”
Nick wasted no time re-visiting all the places he had been since leaving Michelle’s work, and he got lucky for a second time when he spotted his winning ticket in the parking lot of a business he had been at to purchase a car part that day.
Somehow, nobody had picked up his winning ticket, although it had been sitting there in plain sight for at least an hour after Nick had left.
“It’s a million-dollar ticket, and someone stepped right over it,” Nick told the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation. Luck was certainly smiling on him that day!
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