A Montreal man cleaning out a closet at his sister’s insistence received a shock when he found, in the lining of a jacket, a lottery ticket purchased 10 months earlier.
The sisterly advice proved most profitable: The man, named as Gregorio De Santis, on Friday pocketed winnings of Can$1.75 million ($1.35 million).
“When he went to have the ticket validated, he thought the number on the display screen was Can$1,750,” Loto-Quebec said in a statement about De Santis’s big day.
“When he realized how much he had won, he says his heart almost stopped!”┬аDe Santis’s sister had told him it was time to sift through his bulging closet and donate unused old clothing to a charity.
That’s when he stumbled upon the lottery ticket, which he had originally purchased in December, 2017.┬а“I would never have looked in that closet without her!” he said, according to Loto-Quebec.┬аDe Santis, who has played the lottery since the 1970s, scored a smaller win of Can$4,000 in the early 2000s.
He plans to use his new winnings to bolster his retirement account.┬аBeing Canadian, he said he might also take his nephew to some hockey games.┬аPerhaps it was the excitement of the moment, but De Santis made no reported mention of any thank-you gift for his clever sister. AFP
