Winning money playing the New York lottery is hard enough but now it appears that if you're lucky enough to have a winning ticket you might have a hard time finding where in the Hudson Valley to cash in.
Those 18+ who receive their first dose of Pfizer, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at designated state mass vaccination locations could win up to $5 million with the 'Vax and Scratch' program in New York State.
Imagine waking up one morning and discovering you won the lottery. Wouldn't that be bonkers? Well, that's exactly what happened to a couple from Saugerties the other day.
A Powerball lotto ticket worth $50K has been sold in Hopewell Junction and has yet to be claimed. So if you just tossed that ticket aside thinking you didn't win, you may want to grab it out of the garbage before you throw $50K down the tubes.
This would definitely be my luck. Imagine you go into your local convenience store and buy a few scratch off tickets. You start scratching them off and BOOM one ticket says you have one $500,000. I think I might possibly die. Your screaming and jumping around and wait for it...