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Thief Breaks into Couple’s Car, Leaves $1 Million Behind

When one Seattle couple went up to their car the other day, their hearts skipped a beat looking at the rear right-side window. That’s because it was broken and the shards of glass were still glistening in the sun.
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Photo: carpost.com
Ok, so what? Everyone’s heart would skip a beat in that sort of a situation, you might say. And, of course, you’d be right. What made this moment special though was a little piece of paper that was inside the said car at the moment.

You see, the two had purchased a Powerball ticket a while back and, after learning the winning numbers, they forgot all about it until May 14. That’s when they checked the numbers again online and learned that they were actually holding the ticket to what’s called ‘the second-chance prize’. Wanna guess how much that was? That’s right, 1 million bucks.

Therefore, you can easily see now why there were extremely concerned about a thief breaking into their car. Fortunately, like most troubled people that resort to such behavior, the criminal looked at what seemed most shiny instead of taking a closer look at the ticket and left with just some sunglasses.

Truth be told, I guess that in his position, I wouldn’t take a second look at an old lottery ticket either, especially since it was for a drawing that took place on February 11th but still, there’s a valuable lesson to be learned here.

And I’m not talking only about the thief but the owners as well. When you have a winning lottery ticket that will land you that much money, you don’t just leave it inside your car in the parking lot, now do you? Want to hear the best of it?

"Someone broke into our car a few weeks ago and stole a pair of sunglasses," the couple told lottery officials. "The stolen sunglasses were actually sitting atop the winning ticket. What a close call!"

Of course, the couple decided to remain anonymus but did say that they will be taking a trip to Paris and Iceland this year.
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