If someone calls and tells you that you’ve won $18 million, you should probably hear them out. But after the lottery called a Sydney man to tell him he had the winning ticket, he was reportedly so shocked that he hung up the phone.
From the New Zealand Herald:
The newly-minted millionaire from Manly was initially so stunned by the life-changing call that he slammed the phone down.
After managing to regain his composure, he went and checked his ticket and confirmed that it was true.
“Are you serious!?! You are kidding me! I can’t believe it … You have made my whole life! How amazing is this?” the man told Oz Lotto.
“When you rang before I thought it was a bit strange. But then I went and grabbed my ticket, then I checked my ticket and saw the numbers!”
Congratulations to this man for winning $18 million, because that’s awesome, but I cannot believe he would risk losing the money or the lottery thinking they had the wrong number, or some other mishap, by hanging up the phone. Not a good idea, man!
But hey, no harm, no foul, and now he’s $18 million richer.
At least he didn’t mess up as badly as the Predators fan who forgot to check Twitter to see that he’d won Stanley Cup Finals tickets.
[New Zealand Herald; Photo Credit: AMC/Breaking Bad]
