Amazing things happen to people, amazing stories revolve around lottery tickets. Just think about this, you have a winning ticket, but for a reason or other you ended up throwing it into the trash can! But then thanks to a friend you discover that the ticket you just threw away was a winner! What’s next then… everybody run to hunt for a winning ticket! This is the nightmare of any lottery winner and it happened to a Vermillion County man who threw away a ticket worth $50,000. US lottery

Scott’s winning Lucky 5 “trash-can ticket” matched all five numbers in the Feb. 2 evening Lucky 5 drawing. The problem is that when Scott checked the ticket online the first time, somehow he had thought that it was a loser. Lottery checker

“I don’t know what I did, or what I looked at, but for some reason I thought it was no good and I threw it away,” said Scott.

Then the next day, a friend of Scott’s called to tell Scott that the numbers Scott plays in a different game, Daily 3, had just been drawn.

“My buddy called to tell me that my numbers 8-2-4 came up in Daily 3. He knows I play 8-2-4 in Daily 3,” said Scott. “But I hadn’t played that day.”

Very angry and annoyed that he hadn’t purchased a Daily 3 ticket for the one drawing when his numbers were finally drawn, Scott went online to check the Daily 3numbers for himself to make sure his buddy wasn’t simply joking. He had no idea how things would turn out in his favor by doing this.

Scott was scanning the Lottery homepage for the Daily 3 numbers when a different set of winning numbers for a different Hoosier Lottery game caught his eye.

There, on the screen, listed as the winning Lucky 5 numbers for Feb. 2, were the five Lucky 5 numbers he had been playing for months: 5-7-14-18-28. He knew the numbers by heart because they are a combination of his wife and four children’s birthdates. He knew they were the numbers he’d played that day.

It also struck really hard the fact that he also knew he had thrown the ticket away.

“He was sitting at the computer mumbling and mumbling. I couldn’t tell what he was saying,” said Scott’s wife Kathy.

“Finally I saw what he was looking at and I said ‘did you win the Lottery?’ and he said, ‘I threw the ticket away.’”

The whole family scrambled to the kitchen to retrieve the ticket from the trash, which had thankfully not been taken out yet.

They found the ticket was buried under coffee grounds. It was soggy and stained, but somehow all information necessary to validate it was intact and readable. The couple dried it out and presented it to Lottery officials and the winnings that was just about to be trashed are now safely in a bank account. Money that is ready for the couple to use to make their plans of building a garage and taking the kids for a well-deserved vacation possible.