Imagine winning $1 million and throwing your ticket in the trash. Inconceivably? Yes, but it still happened like that.
Lunch break for Lea Rose Fiega: As always, she gets her lunch at the small “Lucky Stop” store and also buys a “$30 Diamond Millions Scratch-off Game” ticket from the Massachusetts state lottery. She's in a bit of a hurry that day, so she quickly scratches off a few fields, takes a quick look at her ticket and probably thinks to herself, "Too bad, nothing again, so back to work." She gives the supposed rogue to the shop owner so that he throws the ticket in the trash.
This story could end here. A story that happens to many people every day. So nothing spectacular. Lea Rose may have had a nice small talk with the shop owner, whom she already knows a little because she is a regular customer here.
But this story shouldn't end here.
The million in the trash
Over a week later - or more precisely: ten days later - Abhi Shah, the shop owner's son, empties the trash can while cleaning in the kiosk. Here he also sees the scratch card and notices that not all the fields were completely scratched off.
So he scratches the ticket completely free and sees that he has a million dollars in his hands. His first thought was of course: “We are rich! ” But when he told his parents about it, they both remembered the ticket thrown away by their regular customer Lea Rose Fiega.
“My parents said that throwing it away was just an accident and she was entitled to the winnings. We had no right to it and wanted to be honest,” says Abhi.
Surprise for Fiega
The Shah family made their way to Lea Rose Fiega's work to give her the lottery ticket in person. Abhi asked her to come out of office as his parents wanted to see her.
When they handed her the ticket she had thrown away, she was overwhelmed and had tears in her eyes.
“I mean, who would do something like that anymore? What great people!”
As the seller of the winning ticket, the Shah family received a bonus payment of $10,000 from the state lottery commission. But Fiege also says that she gave the family an additional reward as a thank you. She puts the remaining money aside for her retirement.
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Source: Spiegel , Berliner Kurier
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