Man Wins New Hampshire Lottery With Ticket Sold in Error
A New Hampshire man is the winner of a $2.1 Megabucks lottery jackpot even though the lucky ticket wasn't the one he intended to buy.
Scott Bennett, 48, of Hillsborough, went into the Circle K convenience store on Dec. 19 and asked the clerk for one Tri-State Megabucks ticket and one Lucky for Life ticket. The clerk mistakenly sold him two Megabucks tickets.
He never got the Lucky for Life ticket, but that probably doesn't matter now, because one of the Megabucks tickets was a big winner.
At a press conference on Friday, the Bennett family - minus Scott, who was at work - appeared to accept the prize.
Cathy Bennett, Scott's 47-year-old wife, said this Christmas "there might be a few extra presents under the tree."
She described the experience as "surreal."
"It's very overwhelming but I think once everything settles we'll enjoy and take the time to enjoy it and decide what the future's going to hold," she said, according to ABC News affiliate WMUR TV in Manchester, N.H.
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It was meant to be!
