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On Reddit, a man admitted to surreptitiously exchanging his brother’s winning lottery ticket for a losing one to keep the six-figure payout.
The guilt persisted even after the money altered his life. (Representative Image)
A man used Reddit to admit to a startling act of treachery in which he exchanged his brother’s winning lottery ticket for his own losing one, keeping the six-figure jackpot for himself. The shame still haunts him years later. In a Reddit post that went viral, the man shared his story and revealed that although his brother doesn’t usually play the lottery, he bought a ticket while they were out together on a whim. The brother also purchased one. After discovering his brother’s unchecked ticket on a kitchen counter a few days later, he decided to compare the numbers.
“And my stomach dropped. It wasn’t the jackpot, but it was a lot. Low six figures. The kind of money that could wipe out debt, buy a new car… or cut my mortgage in half,” the man wrote on Reddit.
He exchanged the tickets without much thinking and walked away. His brother said a week later that he may have thrown out his ticket since he had forgotten to check it. “I wanted to throw up,” the man further admitted. He was able to pay off his mortgage 10 years early because of the stolen winnings. His life was altered by the money, yet the guilt remained.
The fact that his brother is still financially stable, he claimed, “helps ease the guilt a little.” But a comment made recently about a charity auction resurrected old wounds. “This afternoon, at a charity raffle we entered for a good cause but didn’t win anything, he casually complained about how he never wins anything, and I immediately felt a tight knot in my chest,” he added in his post.
Shared on March 18, the post has garnered over 1,900 upvotes. A contentious internet discussion was also triggered by the post.
A user wrote, “You could at least have gone half each.”
Another added, “I would have shared if I’d won myself but got tickets with someone else, especially my brother. It would be as much fun watching someone else use the money as it would paying off my nonsense.”
“If this is true, it’s disgusting,” an individual said.
“Why didn’t you at least tell him you’d won and give him half?,” another remarked.
The Reddit user acknowledged that even after years of keeping the secret, he still thinks about it excessively.
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Delhi, India, India
