Winning lotto tickets found weeks later

SACRAMENTO (UPI) -- A California woman and a Maryland man have reported discovering $250,000 lottery tickets in separate incidents.

The Price George's County, Md., man, whose name was not released, said he found his Mega Millions ticket in his jacket pocket, where it had resided for nearly a month and a half, WBAL-TV in Baltimore reported Tuesday.

"I was lucky to wear the jacket that day. I probably wouldn't wear it for the rest of the season," the winner said.

Meanwhile, Candy Tyree of Sacramento, Calif., said she was about to throw away an old recliner when her husband told her he had stuffed a week-old Mega Millions ticket in the chair, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported Tuesday.

She said she retrieved the ticket from the recliner, which had already been taken outside, and looked up the winning numbers from the drawing.

Tyree said the ticket turned out to be worth $249,050.

Her husband Jim said the incident has caused his wife to reconsider tossing the old recliner.

"It could be the lucky chair now," he said.




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