A man in Florida luckily won a total of $92,000 from 184 winning lottery tickets—worth $500 each—but his luck ran out when he lost his tickets.
Tampa's Walid Aboroomi searched everywhere, but the tickets were nowhere to be found. He even called his garbage hauler to see if the Florida Lottery Cash 3 tickets were in the trash, but the garbage was already taken to an incinerator, reported the AP.
"Finally, I gave up. I was crying, crying like a baby," said the 50-year-old man, who won the lottery with his lucky number 715.
Despite having the receipt showing he bought 184 tickets on May 28, lottery officials said they need to see the actual tickets in order for him to collect the money in the pot, reported the Tampa Tribune.
Aboroomi had won various lotteries in the past with the same lucky numbers, 7-1-5. The day he bought the tickets in Florida, he knew he would use the same numbers again after seeing a license plate with the same numbers on it and checking the time, which was 7:15 p.m. His birthday is also 715 (July 15).
"Everything was 715," said Aboroomi, who emigrated from Israel 27 years ago. "It was blowing my brain."
Aboroomi claims he was never hungry because of his lucky streak over the years—he's won over $1.5 million from different lottery games. He won $500,000 in a scratch-off jackpot in 2004, $1 million playing the Virginia Million Dollar Madness scratch-off game in 2005, won $71,000 in the Virginia Pick 3 with his lucky numbers and another $100,000 with those same numbers in 2007.
