Back in November 2021, a woman named LaQuedra Edwards put $40 into a lottery Scratchers vending machine at a supermarket when an unfortunate mistake happened.
She told FOX Business that “some rude person” bumped into her, causing her to accidentally push the wrong number and purchase a $30 200X Scratchers ticket.
Edwards said, “He just bumped into me, didn’t say a thing and just walked out the door.”
Edwards was annoyed because she spent 75% of her money on just the one ticket, but then she started scratching it. She quickly got over her ill will.
She discovered that she had won that lottery’s top prize. “I didn’t really believe it at first, but I got on the 405 Freeway and kept looking down at [the ticket], and I almost crashed my car,” she said.
She pulled over, scanned the ticket with her California Lottery mobile app and "just kept thinking this can’t be right" adding "I’m still in shock. All I remember saying once I found out how much I just won was, ‘I’m rich!’"
Edwards plans to use her winnings to buy a house and start a nonprofit organization.
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