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With Luck Like That, He Should Buy a Lottery Ticket

Scott Lowe, 22, of Rockland, Mass., was pulled over in Hingham, for allegedly speeding. When the officer approached his car, he noticed “the driver was shaking.” Lowe wasn’t high, or drunk: he was nervous. He had bought a $2 lottery ticket and won $50,000, and was heading to the state lottery office in Braintree to cash it in. He showed the officer the lottery ticket, and sure enough, it was a winner. “Today was really his lucky day,” a department spokesman noted: the officer didn’t ticket Lowe, and sent him on his way with a verbal warning. (RC/WCVB Boston) ...Don’t count on this getting you out of trouble: if you don’t have the right kind of ticket, he’ll give you the wrong kind of ticket.
Original Publication Date: 23 March 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.

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