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We all know life isn t fair, and now we just have more proof of that: a Canadian man has produced two of the four winning tickets in a recent record-setting Canadian lottery jackpot. Harry Black, from Surrey, British Columbia, decided if one ticket was good, two were better, and played the same set of numbers twice in Lotto 6/49, reaping him $31.7 million, which was half of the record $63.4 million total jackpot. Even better, lottery winnings in Canada are tax-free (compared to an approximate 40 percent hit rate for lottery wins for their neighbors to the south.)
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As odd a bit of luck as this obviously is, Black, 66, says he has actually played those numbers for the past 35 years, with no more than a $10 win, until his April 13 sweep. Nonetheless, the odds are slim of this kind of circumstance ever occurring, as British Columbia Lottery Corporation s vice-president Kevin Glass noted. [It s the] first time in the company s recollection that we ve had this unique sort of win. Recollection? We don t think you d be likely to forget something like that.
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A cement mason for the past 30 years who more recently switched over to working in local film industry transport, Black says he s now happy to take some time off for his favorite hobby of drag-racing. At 66? If it s dangerous, I like doing it, touted Black, perhaps seeing a vision of himself that exists more in his head than in his actual personal history.
Black is not a celebrity-in-training, it appears; after the normal whoopla as he was presented with two gigantic novelty checks to symbolize his actual financial windfall, he said he just wanted to go to an airport, grab a ticket to the nearest flight out, and go. Apparently no one reminded him he can now probably charter his own plane.
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