Honestly, I am guilty of buying lottery tickets and never got them checked to see if they are the winning tickets. Here in Australia, a man who is equally as lazy as me or as “couldn’t be bothered” as me, did not check his ticket. Turned out he has a winning ticket worth A$100,000 which in xblogger term means a lot of money.

Here’s the link from Sydney Morning Herald.

The article is as follows:

A Sydney man who almost shredded a bagful of his old $2 Jackpot Lottery tickets today discovered one of them to be worth $100,000.

The middle-aged St George office worker, who has been putting in the same set of numbers for his lottery tickets each week since 1979, had become so used to losing that for the past few years he had not even bothered to check if the tickets were winners.

“I’ve had a drawer full of unregistered lottery tickets sitting in my desk for years. I was pretty slack about checking them. I just never got around to it for one reason or another,” the man, who declined to be named, said.

“I was virtually going to shred them in my shredder but because I was taking some old Instant Scratchies to claim, I thought I’d take the other tickets in to be checked as well.

“So I filled up one of those green recycled supermarket shopping bags with tickets and took them in to NSW Lotteries head office at Homebush Bay on Monday.”

This morning he received a call from NSW Lotto telling him that a ticket, purchased more than five years ago, had won him a bagful of cash.

“I get the call to say, ‘Are you sitting down? Because we’ve got some good news. One of your tickets has won $100,000.’

“I’m glad I took notice of the warning to sit down - it’s quite a shock.”

The winning ticket had picked up the first prize of $100,000 in the $2 Jackpot Lottery draw 7386, which was drawn on March 7, 2001.

He said he wished he had registered the ticket because, had he been notified that he had won in 2001, his bank account would be a quite a bit bigger today.

“I suppose the interest on $100,000 over five years would have been around $30,000. But I’m very happy to have it now. I feel terrific.”

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