MILLBRAE, Calif. — A man who won $1 million from the California Lottery on Wednesday in Millbrae paid for the winning Scratcher ticket using a $20 bill he found on the ground.
The lucky Bay Area man, Hubert Tang, found the $20 bill on a street outside of San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday. He then used it to purchase two $1,000,000 Jackpot! Scratchers tickets from Andrea's Market, located at 1601 El Camino Real in Millbrae.
Tang, who works as a bartender, said that he had not purchased a lottery ticket in 10 years.
"I scratched the ticket outside of the store. I told my friend who I was with that I didn't know if it was real but, 'I think I just won a million dollars,'" Tang said.
Tang was in shock when he won and is still unsure about what he is going to do with his winnings.
"I haven't really thought about what I am going to do with the money. For now I am just going to put it in savings," Tang said.
"Maybe I'll start leaving $20 bills on the street in random places," he said jokingly.
Andrea's Market, where he bought the ticket, wins as well, as it receives a $5,000 bonus just for selling the winning ticket.
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Thanks to Sandia and Steve for the tip.
Congratulations to you , Hubert Tang. El Camino Real is Spanish for ,"The Kings Way". This road connected the Roman Catholic Missions in California.
Now that's being struck twice with a streak of good luck!
Congrats to the winner.
The more I read this story, the more it appears that Mr Tang had his tang spiked. Maybe a whale jumped out from the bay and a $20 bill fell out of the whale's pocket. People and their fish stories. Whatever happened to I bought a ticket and I won.
Why do you think he's lying?
Haven't you ever found money on the street or sidewalk?
I seen it on the news this morning,I think it's really cool...
Awesome return on his investment. ...
Congratulation to Hubert Tang, on his scratch off ticket win. Great story.
I had that happen to me one day found 10 bucks on the ground,thought it was a dollar.Bought some lottery tickets,an of course u know no luck.
But I,m in it to win it.One r two dollars an a dream.Congrats to the winner.
I was just sitting here scratching off the new $30 California Lotto ticket, I won $500 on my very first ticket of this game last week, but then my weekend luck dried up after buying other million dollar lotto tickets, but then this story restored by lotto ticket scratching faith again, congrats !!!
Big Daddy out of Suisun City
He's likely embellishing the past. It's interesting how so many big winners claim never / rarely bought tickets.
While embellishing is one thing, to make a statement about finding a $20 on the ground is risky. In many jurisdictions, lost cash, over a certain threshold, which can be low as $20 in some, must be turned over to the authorities. Even if the reporting threshold, where he found the bill, is higher than $20, there's still a risk of the person who lost the $20 filing a lawsuit, regardless.
On a related note, the same issue applies to discarded winning instant tickets. Some things are best kept on the down-low, but many don't realize that finding something doesn't legally automatically make it theirs. One can find numerous stories of people finding lost cash, winning tickets, etc and having to give it back; getting sued.
Anyways, congrats on his win. Hopefully, he won't run into any problems due to his "I found $20" story.
Interesting ... so it might be possible that who ever lost the $20 could be entitled to some of the lottery money or all of the money. He never actually used "his own" money ... someone else paid for that ticket.
If the actual person comes forward saying it was their $20 ... wow, here come the lawyers !!!
Best to always keep your mouth shut ... look at the old prospectors ... they come back to town, buying drinks for everyone, blabbin' about their claim and the next day they're dead.
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Seems to me that the person or person's that would come forward to claim that it was their 20 dollars would be kind a hard to prove...how would you convince someone that was your 20 dollar bill....when there are so many going around...I don't even think that the lawyers would even want to get involved...on a side note..make sure you keep track of your money and where you keep it....that fellow just happened to be in the right place at the right time...
Seems to me that the person or person's that would come forward to claim that it was their 20 dollars would be kind a hard to prove...how would you convince someone that was your 20 dollar bill
In 2015 it is much easier than it used to be. Plenty of cameras everywhere (they helped catch the Boston bombers and it was very crowded) so if it is true that he found that $20 and someone else remembers losing a $20 around that area, chances are it could be on camera. Ron is right, keep it to yourself and when possible, collect anonymously
UMMM..... I don't think so.
FINDERS KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS!
The loser has to pay the score. Sucks to be the loser, especially in this case. lol
Loser wouldn't be entitled to anything, except maybe his $20.00 back which I would gladly turn over if the loser can prove the serial number on the bill he lost.
Some things are better left unsaid...I would have never mentioned about "finding" the $20 that I bought that winning ticket with. Congrats to him though!
Perhaps I should have played the $20 I found rather than just keeping it for whatever. Oh well, next time.
That's awesome, congrats to the lucky guy.
Of course he is, people like him are notorious liars. The chances that you buy expensive tickets like that and you never or rarely play the lottery are slim to none. A casual player would likely stick to $1 or $2 tickets and probably would not exceed $5. Not to stereotype, but Asians also tend to be very heavy gamblers, especially the Chinese, which also makes me tend to doubt his story. So you have an Asian bartender that claims he hasn't played the lottery in 10 years, sure buddy, sure...
The finding the $20 is also likely hogwash, he just doesn't want to look like he is a degenerate gambler to the public.
Totally off-topic, but I've always wanted to take some time off from life and visit them all. The only ones I've been inside so far are Mission San Jose in Fremont, and the one in Ventura (which I think is called Mission Buonaventura).
Were any of us LP posters there when he found the money?...no. Being Chinese has nothing to do with the price of tea. While stationed @ Ft Myer, VA (The Old Guard=yay!) I found $12 on a stairway. One of our soldiers, a pathological liar type said it was his. My reply was 'give me the serial #'s'. End of that conversation.
Agree Bleudog.
There's a lot of amateur psychologists around here that know everything about total strangers in a news story.
Cry me a river. How ironic.You are sticking your foot in your mouth. Unless your name is Hubert Tang, you are doing exactly the same thing you are accusing the other guys of doing. You don't know Tang from Jack. Verdict: GUILTY!!!.