Lottery player bummed when someone won the jackpot — but it was him. ‘Blew me away’
When a Maryland lottery player went to check the 20 tickets he picked up while swinging by a food mart after grabbing his medication, he got disheartened as the jackpot printed on the tickets dipped.
No longer was the jackpot $30,000 but instead was less than half at $14,000, Maryland Lottery officials said in a June 28 news release.
Though disappointed, the Baltimore player scanned through his tickets at the food mart in Catonsville and soon realized why the jackpot had reset — he was holding the winning SLINGO ticket, worth $30,028, in his hand.
“I thought someone else hit,” the avid angler told lottery officials, adding that the win “blew me away!”
This wasn’t the man’s first big lottery win, officials said.
In 2017, he won $100,000 and used the winnings to move, buy a truck, make a donation to his church and “take a trip to Las Vegas,” officials said.
Though his current truck “is generally fine for fishing trips,” there is one problem — it has no backseat for his dog to lounge.
“She needs her space,” the angler said.
With the pair’s frequent trips to “tidewater locations across Maryland in pursuit of flounder, white perch and, especially, rockfish,” space is crucial, lottery officials said.
So, with his most recent win, lottery officials said the angler plans to buy a new car with a backseat where his pooch can sprawl and “have the backseat to herself.”
Catonsville is less than 10 miles southwest of Baltimore.
This story was originally published June 29, 2023 at 5:42 PM with the headline "Lottery player bummed when someone won the jackpot — but it was him. ‘Blew me away’."
