Woman wins $10M after accidentally pushing wrong button on vending machine in CA

LaQuedra Edwards was at a Vons in Tarzana in November when she put $40 right into a California Lottery Scratchers merchandising machine. As she was about to decide on which video games she wished, she mentioned, “some impolite individual” ran into her.

Based on Edwards, the affect of the stranger bumping into her prompted her to push a quantity on the machine that she didn’t intend. Out got here a $30 200X Scratchers ticket — which she had no intention of shopping for.

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“He simply ran into me, did not say a factor and simply walked out the door,” Edwards recalled, as described in a information launch issued by the California Lottery on Wednesday. She recounted being irritated not solely as a result of the individual ran into her, but additionally as a result of she had spent 75% of her lottery cash on one ticket as an alternative of with the ability to buy her normal collection of lower-priced favorites.

Edwards returned to her automotive and started scratching the $30 ticket. That is when she realized she’d gained the sport’s high prize — a cool $10 million.

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“I did not actually consider it at first, however I received on the 405 Freeway and stored wanting down at (the ticket) and I nearly crashed my automotive,” Edwards mentioned, in accordance with the assertion. “I pulled over, checked out it many times, scanned it with my (California Lottery cellular) app and I simply stored considering, ‘This cannot be proper.’”

“I am nonetheless in shock,” she added. “All I bear in mind saying as soon as I came upon how a lot I simply gained was, ‘I am wealthy!’”

The grocery store obtained a $50,000 bonus for promoting the profitable ticket.

Based on the information launch, Edwards plans to make use of her winnings to purchase a home and launch a nonprofit group.