One lucky lottery player hit a big last night.
Somebody bought a Mega Millions ticket at the mobile station
on Pershing Driving Derby and it's worth $1,000,000.
News 8 Kent Pierce reports from what some think is
now a lucky store, this Derby gas station is going
to have to put up a new sign.
We don't know who yet, but someone bought a ticket
here for Tuesday's Mega Millions and they won big $1,000,000
ticket was sold here just yesterday.
What do you think of that?
Oh, I wish it was me, man.
I wish it was me.
I mean, you know, I wish him the best of
luck with the money, $1 million is the prize when
you get everything but the Mega Ball, right?
And I guess it's very rare because the boss has
told me that he's only sold one other one in
any of his stores, and that was like over 25
years ago.
It's not just a lucky winner who gets something out
of this deal just for selling the winning ticket.
The store actually gets $10,000 from the state lottery.
That's welcome news for the store, but so is knowing
one of their customers just got rich.
We're just kind of waiting down to see who it
was, you know, hopefully it's one of our regulars.
Yeah.
I'm hoping you have a lot, a lot of regulars
here.
We have a lot of regulars, yeah, which was me
yesterday, that's for sure.
But there's always a chance every day, right?
Yeah.
Is this now a lucky story, you think, with that
big a prize?
I, I think so.
You know, I'm going to play a little bit more
today.
I think that is the hope that the big winner
brings in a big crowd of new customers.
People are very superstitious when they see big tickets come
out of a store.
People ask all the time.
We have.
That's why we keep the little boards up and they
tell us, you know, what's the highest, you know, winner.
You've had people like that, you know, everybody looking for
the big payout and they're looking to add more big
winners to Connecticut.
Smallest city in Derby.
I'm Kent Pierce, News 8.