An Alberta, Canada man's accidental purchase of two identical lottery tickets for the same drawing led to his splitting a $3.8 million jackpot... with himself!
Andrew Burke of Calmar told Western Canada Lottery Corp. officials he accidentally bought two identical tickets for the September 16 Lotto drawing.
The $3.8 million jackpot was split evenly between the two winning tickets, earning Burke a pair of $1.9 million jackpots. He said he was shocked when he handed one of the tickets over to a clerk at the store to check if he had won anything.
"The clerk then told me 'you've won $2.5 million [U.S. $1.8 million] -- and I said she better check that other ticket, because it's the same numbers!"
Burke said he is now on permanent "vacation" from his job.
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