程阳:菲律宾彩票中出历史最高奖7亿比索

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1人民币元=6.6829菲律宾比索 |
1菲律宾比索=0.1496人民币元 |
Gallant act earned Filipino ‘gentleman’ record lottery Saturday, 11 December 2010 02:04
MANILA: An act of gallantry paid
huge dividends for a “humble gentleman” who won $17m in a
Philippine lottery after letting a woman jump a queue and buy what
would have been his losing ticket.
The 63-year-old winner’s elation when collecting his 741 million pesos ($17m) this week was tinged with empathy for the excited lady who pushed in front of him, the lottery said yesterday.
“The woman cut in. He was being very gentlemanly so he just stepped back and allowed her,” Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office chair Margie Juico said.
“When he won, he kept thinking: how sad for that woman. She could have won the big prize if she had just been patient.”
Nobody had won the lottery since May 15, ratcheting up the prize money because it accumulates every time someone fails to pick the lucky numbers.
Juico said the winner in the November 29 draw was “unassuming and humble”, and had told her that he had not even bothered to see if he held the winning ticket for a week.
A Filipino living in the United States, he had bought the ticket while on a holiday to his homeland. He will return to the United States, where he works and has three children.
The lottery agency has a policy of keeping the names of the winners secret, partly to protect them from kidnappers, Juico said.
男子买彩票被插队中出菲律宾史上最高奖
菲律宾一名移居美国的劳工返乡时排队购买彩票时被插队,没想到却为他带来了意外财富——7.41亿比索(约合1700万美元,约合人民币1.13亿元)。
这名菲律宾男子已经是三个孩子的父亲,当天他在购买彩票时,一名女子粗鲁地挤到他的前面,出于礼貌,他让这位女子先购买彩票,轮到他购买时,他随机选取了一组号码。没想到这组号码中了头奖。据悉,此次彩金从5月15日开始累积,大约经过86期最终在11月29日出现大奖得主,该彩票的奖金也成为菲律宾彩票史上最高的一次,吸引了数百万菲律宾人疯狂购买彩票,而中得头奖的几率仅为2900万分之一。
菲律宾彩票机构出于保护大奖得主的目的,对中奖玩家信息进行保密。有传言说中奖者今年60多岁,现居美国,此次回来是探亲。
菲律宾慈善公益彩票办公室的工作人员表示大奖得主开始并不知道自己中了奖,大约一周后他核对彩票才意识到中奖了。中奖后,他也对那名插队的女子表示了遗憾。如果那位女子再耐心一点,那么她就可能就成为大奖得主了。