First the Pink Slip, Then the Green Stuff
An Australian man fired from his job at a ferry-building company learned hours later that he had won the $4.5-million jackpot in a nationwide lottery.
In a statement through Tattersall’s lottery agency, the man--whose identity was not released--said he and 99 colleagues were to be laid off by Incat, a company that makes wave-piercing catamaran ferries.
He said he was job-hunting when he heard on the radio that authorities were looking for a lottery winner in Hobart, capital of the southern island state of Tasmania.
He drove to a lottery outlet and had his ticket checked.
The man said he immediately gave up job-hunting.
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