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Son moving furniture for mom finds months-old lotto tickets. One was big winner
A son moving furniture for his mom found five scratch-off tickets that never made it into Christmas stockings — and one of them was a $50,000 winner, Maryland officials said.
Now the mother-son duo are splitting the windfall, the Maryland Lottery said in an April 7 news release.
The five scratch-offs 'were part of a larger cache of tickets the mom had purchased as stocking stuffers for her adult children,' lottery officials said.
When the son stumbled upon them, he asked his mom if he could scratch them off, lottery officials said. They agreed to split any winnings.
'The son actually didn't scratch the tickets at his mom's house, but later on with his wife. They were in disbelief after scratching and seeing matching numbers over the game's $50,000 top prize,' according to lottery officials, who said the winning ticket was a $5 Holiday Luck Doubler from a liquor store in Nottingham.
The son's wife thought, 'Did that really just happen?' after the win was revealed, according to lottery officials.
The son even 'called his mom and asked if it was a prank ticket,' lottery officials said.
But 'it was not, as was confirmed when the trio visited Lottery headquarters,' according to lottery officials.
The son will save and pay off debt to his mom with his portion, while the mom will share with other family members, lottery officials said.
Of the four remaining tickets found, two weren't winners and two combined for $21 won, lottery officials said.
Nottingham is about a 20-mile drive northeast from Baltimore.
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