LOS ANGELES (KNX) — A woman won $10 million after pressing the wrong button on a lottery machine at a supermarket in Tarzana last year, state officials announced Wednesday.
LaQuedra Edwards put $40 into a Scratchers vending machine at a Vons in Tarzana in Nov. 2021. While she decided which games she wanted the machine to dispense, “some rude person” bumped into her, according to a news release from the California Lottery.
“He just bumped into me, didn’t say a thing and just walked out the door,” Edwards said.
The contact caused her to accidentally push the wrong number on the machine, which ejected a $30 200X Scratchers ticket.
Edwards took the ticket to her car, and upon scratching it, learned she won the game’s top prize of $10 million.
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,” Edwards told state lottery officials. “I pulled over, looked at it again and again, scanned it with my [California Lottery mobile] app, and I just kept thinking this can’t be right.”
Edwards said she plans to use the winnings to buy a home and launch a nonprofit organization.
“I’m still in shock,” she added. “All I remember saying once I found out how much I just won was, ‘I’m rich!’”
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