At the intersection of Fate and Lotto, Thuan Le made a very fortunate error.
The California single mother of four is thanking her lucky stars after mistakenly slipping an extra dollar into the self-service Lotto machine at her local CVS store in Mission Viejo.
That superfluous dollar wound up getting Le the SuperLotto Plus ticket holding the five winning numbers — 5, 33, 25, 46, 32 — plus the Mega number, 26, selected randomly in the April 24 drawing.
In all, Le won a $14 million jackpot.
"Thuan Le is a hardworking single mother of four sons," according to a release from the California Lottery.
"She is also very excitable. In fact, when she ran her SuperLotto Plus ticket through the terminal and realized she had won a $14 million jackpot, she ran screaming out of the store."
Le reportedly plans to buy a house, travel, and visit her parents in Vietnam with the proceeds.
According to the lottery website, Le and a friend would normally go together and buy their lottery tickets at the same time. But on that fateful April day, Le went by herself to purchase her usual $4 worth of Powerball and $1 in SuperLotto Plus.
"She accidentally put $6 in the self-service terminal and bought her tickets," the lottery reported. "When she realized she still had $1 in credit, she thought, 'I might as well get another SuperLotto Plus ticket.' That sixth ticket was the winner."
It had been approximately a month — and eight unsuccessful drawings — since anyone picked all six numbers to win the SuperLotto Plus jackpot when Le won the grand prize.
The odds of winning are about 1 in 42 million, according to the California lottery.
Good Story Congrats to her spend wisely
Congratulations to the winner....
Congrats to her, now time to get the hell out of California.
" Le went by herself to purchase her usual $4 worth of Powerball "
Is two weeks, three or four drawings really enough to call that usual?
For goodness sakes! I wish my errors would turn into millions lol! Congrats to the mother of four sons!!
i want to start making similar mistakes.
I make them once in a while, but mine have never paid off like this one.
I saw that and wondered the same thing. Exaggeration seems to be the in-thing in 2013.
I am happy for Ms Le. She can cut down on the time she works and spend it with her sons
Great story.
Happy for her.
God Bless her.
Congrats to Thuan Le and her family.
God Bless America. 
I love stories like this!!!! It sounds like she was very thrifty in her playing as well. One can "accomplish" a lot in life by being at the right place at the right time.
Congrats to the lucky lady!!
yeah, California only started selling Powerball less than a month ago so how can that be her usual? Sensationalism at it's best right here. Thanks fox news!
I didn't know that fox news did the California Lottery publicity stories.
fox news is given credit at the bottom of the article.
the original story is right here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/05/single-mother-simple-error-earns-her-14-million-lottery-prize/
Best wishes.
They were paraphrasing from the CALottery website here http://www.calottery.com/media/press-releases/press-release?Item={7CF5CA90-2039-4B21-B058-C18053FB2E28}
"Le and a friend usually go together and buy their Lottery tickets at the same time, but yesterday, Le went by herself to purchase her usual $4 worth of POWERBALL® and $1 in SuperLotto Plus from her local CVS Pharmacy."
If you would spend as much time using your brain as you do drinking the MSM kool-aid and dissing fox news, you might come off as slightly more than the typical LIV.
Can't you just be happy for this lucky woman? Do you have to make it a negative?
mainstream media kool-aid? Give me a break. I don't blindly follow any news service. I look at the facts regardless of who published it and I ask myself is it accurate? If they published it, they are responsible for the information and fact checking. If someone told me Abraham Lincoln was the first president of the United States and I decide not to check the facts and as a journalist I write a news story about how Abraham Lincoln was the first president of the United States and someone called me out on it, then I am responsible and I will admit I was wrong. I can't say well I was just paraphrasing from what someone else told me.
"Can't you just be happy for this lucky woman? Do you have to make it a negative?"
How is being critical of a news story and being happy for the winner of the lottery two mutually exclusive things? It's not like flipping a coin where the outcome must be one or the other. Can you even conceive in your mind that someone can be critical of the accuracy in a news story and also being happy for the winner? Ohh that's right in your mind it must be one or the other. I must either blindly follow and worship at the altar of fox news or that must mean I'm envious and spiteful of the lottery winner. Perfect reasoning.
Mistake .. Fate .. Wonderful for her! Best wishes!
She's destined to be a lottery winner. Indeed lottery is also a game of chance. Who would tell that her simple error will become her key to win the lotto?
Congrats to her, now she can have quality time with her family.
Same here HLK, guy messed up on my Mega ticket last Friday I ended up buying the mistake tickets plus the correct ticket for a total of $9.00 and I didn't win a darn thang
She's a single mom with 4 sons. She needs the money. I need money too!!! Where's my jackpot?
That's the 1st California Super Lotto Plus Jackpot winner after they join Powerball.
More proof that it only takes $1 to WIN !
She is going to "visit" her parents in Vietnam? She ought to MOVE them OUT of Vietnam, to someplace like, oh, that won't get blown up!
Ha Ha, that's pretty sweet.
Vietnam is one of the most rapidly growing nations in the world, economically speaking. Yeah, still if I were here at least I would try. But life is whole lot simpler over there and people do have different tastes.
The only threat Vietnam is facing is China. And they have been successfully defeating china many times.
Chinamen are the ones with the fortune cookies.
I got in a big fight in a sushi joint one night cuz I didn't know that.
So make a note of that.
China bullied all the weaker neighbor countries.Just like the guy who robbed people on the street but when cop come,then shouted:
I had been robbed,I had been robbed !