A convenience store clerk last week offered an Oregon man a chance to buy two lottery tickets that were printed by mistake. The man bought one and left, then thought better of it and returned to buy the other one.
It was a decision for which he would be richly rewarded.
That second ticket Charles Svitak bought June 16 at a 7-Eleven store earned him a $7.3 million payday in Oregon's Megabucks game, KDRV reported.
"When I checked the ticket on my computer I couldn't believe it," Svitak told The Oregonian. "The first thing I thought is that I had worked my last graveyard shift."
Svitak, who works in Medford, took the lump sum option, which was for $3.65 million, KDRV reported.
Patrick Johnson, public affairs officer at the Oregon Lottery, told the Oregonian that the tickets were not Quick Picks, where numbers are randomly generated by the computer.
Svitak did not tell his wife about the winnings. He went to Salem to get the check and then bought a truck.
"On the way home I got a new truck and put the oversized check they gave me on the windshield," Svitak told the Oregonian.
Svitak showed his wife the check and truck when he returned home.
"She hasn't stopped giggling since," Svitak told KDRV.
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