Lucky Numbers Deliver $370K Mega Bingo Payday

A routine game of bingo has turned into a life‑changing moment for one resident of southern Belize. After matching the winning numbers, he walked away with the Mega Bingo Jackpot, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Once taxes are taken out, he’s still set to pocket about three hundred and fifteen thousand. Today, he tells us how he realized he’d won and what he plans to do with the money.

 

Voice of: Mega Bingo Winner

“Basically you can say I started buying Mega Bingo from the game actually start. But I actually went on a long pause, started back again and ever since I just keep on buying the same ticket, never changed it. It is not everyday I buy the ticket. The game start playing, I started playing and then it is like I am noticing like the small prizes and missing them by one. Then I remember the last three numbers if I am not mistaken, G forty-seven, then three to four more ball before the forty-ninth ball. And one more left on my ticket. This can’t be bad luck. So I said, alright. She said O seventy-five and I watched my ticket and said, boy I have this thing. Ih reach good times, because I could help mom and the ones that look out for me. The one that did not can stay where they stay. Like I said, this will be a slow snail pace. I really don’t want to make any hasty decision, because once you start touch money and start do this, when you notice, money done.”

 

Attention readers: This online newscast is a direct transcript of our evening television broadcast. When speakers use Kriol, we have carefully rendered their words using a standard spelling system.

 

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