Sometimes people have good days, and sometimes people have bad days. But sometimes, people have unusually exceptional days—and for a Canadian man, his exceptional day was Apr. 28, 2018, when he won the Trifecta lottery jackpot.
According to Fox News, April 28 marked a special day for Ping Kuen Shum, the man from Vancouver. Not only was it his birthday, but it was also the day he retired from the workforce.
He was already in good spirits after celebrating both milestones, so he decided to try his luck and bought a BC/49 lottery ticket for himself as a present.
He went to the Parker Place Convenience Centre in Richmond, British Columbia and purchased the lottery ticket.
The chances of winning were slim—the odds were one in 13,983,816—but he decided to try anyway.
Now this guy was having a VERY good day. It was his Birthday, then last day until Retirement.. then… https://t.co/CpBY3Z0CP3
— Stephanie Domurat (@SLDomurat) May 5, 2018
To his surprise, all of the number on the lottery ticket matched up, and he ended up winning the jackpot worth $2 million.
“It’s unbelievable that all three events happened on the same day,” said Shum to the BBC. “I have worked hard for so many years and I’m looking forward to sharing this fortune with my family.”
A Canadian man had the best day you could ever think of! Celebrating his birthday with retirement which is good…
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation confirmed the recently retired man’s winnings to news media, and Shum has accepted his winnings.
Shum said he already celebrated his lottery win by taking his family out for dim sum. In addition to sharing the fortune with his family, he also planned to take a trip to China.
Needless to say, Shum’s retirement gift will be enough to last him a lifetime.
Canadian man wins lottery on birthday as he retires https://t.co/0CuetIaZx7
— Iggy (@Iggy) May 8, 2018
Lottery Winning in Suspense
A Canadian couple reportedly agreed that if one of them ever won the lottery, they would share the earnings. However, years later, they ran in to some problems with that alleged agreement.
“Together we dreamed about winning the lotto,” Denis Robertson said in a sworn affidavit, the CBC reported in 2017. “We both love muscle cars, we would each buy one and buy a large property in the country and build a large shop to work on our cars.”
Robertson and her ex-boyfriend Maurice Thibeault lived together for nearly three years, and they purchased lottery tickets for “almost their entire relationship.”
Thibeault then told her that his most recent Lotto 6/49 ticket was not a winner before he moved out of their home. Later, Thiebeault attempted to claim a $6.1 million winning ticket on Sept. 20, just days after he moved out, CTV reported.
“I am greatly saddened and disappointed by what has happened here,” Robertson said, according to a law firm representing her in the case. “This could have been a very happy and exciting time for us, a couple, to do things we could only dream of doing.”
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation eventually awarded Thibeault half of the winnings in 2018, while Robertson sued him for breach of trust. Thibeault then sued the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario for failing to thoroughly investigate the issue.
“We always agreed that if we had a winning ticket, the proceeds would be ours, together as a couple,” Robertson wrote in an affidavit.
Lottery Winner Arrested
The winner of another scratch-off lottery was recently arrested for fraud when she went to collect her winnings in Canada.
The unnamed 33-year-old woman had bought a scratch ticket with a credit card she had stolen, according to local reports.
When she went to the Atlantic Lottery’s office in St. John’s to collect her $50,000 prize, she was arrested by officers with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary.
However, the lottery company says the owner of the card won’t be able to receive the winnings, either.
The suspect, who was taken into custody on Jan. 31 was charged with two counts of possessing a stolen credit card and five counts of fraud, according to CBC.
The Epoch Times reporters Simon Veazey and Jack Phillips contributed to this article.
