Store Clerk Error Leads to $1 Million Lottery Win - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.
Usually a store clerk's mistake might entail a small over or under payment. However, one particular store worker made the kind of error that we all dream about.
Richard Brown walked into the Valero gas station on Monday and asked for a $5 scratch ticket, however the busy clerk, who is also the manager, handed him a different ticket.
The manager speaks of the incident - “Basically I was on the phone doing a tobacco order. He comes in; he says ‘give me a Blue Ice 7′s.’ I get kind of a little bit distracted and I give him a Sizzlin’ 7′s. He just said ‘no, no, I’ll take it.”
The split-second, passive decision resulted in Brown being a $1 million lottery winner. According to reports, Brown plans to use the fast cash for a trip to San Francisco and repairs on his home.
In another lucky streak from this year, an Arlington man, Joseph Sylvester won the lottery twice in 3 months. Both payouts were for $100,000.
