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One lucky man won the biggest cash prize in Philippines history. A Filipino migrant, who was on vacation in Manila, allowed a woman to cut in line while waiting for the lottery... a move that turned him into an instant millionaire.
An act of kindness turned one man into a multi-millionaire in the Philippines.
The man was about to place a bet at a lottery outlet in the southern Philippines when a woman suddenly cut in front of him and placed her bet first. The way the game works is that a computer picks six random numbers, and if they make a special combination, you win.
[Margarita Juico, Chairman, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office]:
"He just stepped back and he let her go ahead. And then he said 'you know when I won, I thought of her and I thought that maybe if she had been patient enough to wait, then she could probably have won this prize instead of me."
And that act of kindness made him $17 million richer... the biggest lottery cash prize in the Philippines' history. And not a single person won the lottery since last May.
The man worked as a building estimator in New York and was back for a vacation in the Philippines.
[Margarita Juico, Chairman, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office]:
"There's a lot of poor people around and sometimes they place their hopes on this, maybe as a way of getting them over the hump. And so they place their bets with the hope that they will win and better their lives."
As a security measure, the lottery will not reveal the identity of the winner.
