Diet delivers wheelie big Scratchcard win for bin men
Two County Down bin men are considering how to dispose of their new found wealth after collecting a tasty £70,000 on a Scratchcard from National Lottery Gamestore. The best mates have a diet plan to thank for fattening their bank balances, after binning their sausage rolls in exchange for Lottery gold.
Stephen Inglis, 46, from Bangor, and Frank McCormick, 44, from Newtownards have worked together for nine years, and it was Frank’s recent diet which delivered the big win. Whoever got the least answers right in the morning radio quiz always had to buy the pair a snack. The diet meant the sausage rolls went in the bin and the pair instead opted for a Scratchcard as a treat.
“We’re still in total disbelief,” explained Stephen. “However Frank’s been on a diet recently so we swapped the sausage rolls for scratchcards - but we never thought we would win. All I can say is thank God that Frank needed to lose a bit of weight.”
“We’re still in shock since we won,” said Frank, who has lost two stone since he started his diet. “Neither of us have ever really won anything much before but it just goes to show that it can happen to anyone.
“I can certainly recommend this diet though,” he joked. “On one hand I’ve lost 28 pounds but on the other I’ve gained 35 thousand”!
We’ve won!
The duo chose a Jewel 7s Doubler scratchcard which they took back to the lorry and scratched in the car park.
“Frank always scratches the cards as I never win,” said Stephen, “and he said to me that we had a lucky 7 in one of the rows. Then after a pause, he said ‘we’ve won 70, we’ve won 70’. I said ’70 quid?’ and he said ‘no, 70 thousand’!
“Obviously I thought Frank was talking garbage but he insisted that he wasn’t so we took the card back into the shop and they told us to ring Camelot as they couldn’t pay such a large amount over the counter!
“We phoned Camelot and the rest is history. They confirmed our win and we still can’t believe it. It feels like it’s not really happening, but we’re not complaining,” he added.
Stephen said he won’t waste his share of the winnings but instead will take his time deciding how to spend it after a celebratory meal with his children. Frank however, already has his eyes on a new car and also wants to take his family to EuroDisney and pay off a few debts.
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