Peter McCathie, a man from Canada has defied the odds not once – but twice!
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It didn’t happen overnight, but McCathie can now boast, rather improbably, that he survived being struck by lightning and then literally won the lottery.
“By assuming that these events happened independently … so probability of lotto … times another probability of lightning – since there are two people that got hit by lightning – we get approximately 1 in 2.6 trillion”, said Sophie Leger.
The odds of winning the Atlantic Lottery’s Lotto 6/49 game in Canada are 1 in 13,983,816.
Peter McCathie and his lottery co-player, Diana Miller, picked up their windfall in Moncton Monday, CTV News reported.
“I honestly expected to get hit by lightning again first”, McCathie told CTV News about his unbelievable win.
Mr McCathie, of Amherst, Nova Scotia, was 14 when he was struck by lightning while wading through water. McCathie’s daughter was stuck by lightning years ago when working as a wilderness guide in Manitoba. They collected their million-dollar prize from Atlantic Lottery 649. McCathie, who was struck by lightning at 14-years-old, told CTV about is near death experience recalling he was on a lake’s shore. “There was one big, white cloud in the sky, and the lightning bolt came through the trees and hit me”.
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Mr McCathie plans to use the jackpot prize to go on a second honeymoon with his wife. Atlantic Lottery allows retailers and retail employees to purchase lottery tickets. A storm came down as she was canoeing, and the bolt hit her as she locked up her boat, he said. “It shows that anything can happen in life”.
