Man finds $20 note, wins $1 million California lottery with it
Hubert Tang used the lucky bill to buy two scratcher tickets at a store near the airport
Hubert Tang used the lucky bill to buy two scratcher tickets at a store near the airport. PHOTO: TVNEWSROOM
A Bay Area man who found a $20 bill on a street outside San Francisco International Airport used it to play the California lottery and won $1 million, a lottery spokesman said on Monday.
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Hubert Tang used the lucky bill to buy two scratcher tickets at a store near the airport on Wednesday and won the top prize with one of them, lottery spokesman Greg Parashak said.
"I scratched the ticket outside of the store. I told my friend who I was with that I didn't know if it was real but, 'I think I just won a million dollars,'" Tang said, according to Parashak.
Tang, a bartender at the airport, had not played the lottery in about a decade before using the found money to buy two tickets, Parashak said.
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Tang said he did not yet have plans for the money, but joked that he might use it to place $20 bills in random places for other lucky players to find, according to the lottery.
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Hubert Tang used the lucky bill to buy two scratcher tickets at a store near the airport on Wednesday and won the top prize with one of them, lottery spokesman Greg Parashak said.
"I scratched the ticket outside of the store. I told my friend who I was with that I didn't know if it was real but, 'I think I just won a million dollars,'" Tang said, according to Parashak.
Tang, a bartender at the airport, had not played the lottery in about a decade before using the found money to buy two tickets, Parashak said.
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Tang said he did not yet have plans for the money, but joked that he might use it to place $20 bills in random places for other lucky players to find, according to the lottery.