Elderly man falls and breaks hip on the way to buy lotto ticket, joins hospital's pool, wins $1 million lottery instead
An elderly man in New Jersey thought he was going to be lucky the day he stepped out to go buy a lottery ticket but unfortunately, lady luck wasn't on his side just yet. While on his way to buy the ticket, 87-year-old Earl Livingston from Blackwood, New Jersey, had a fall and broke his hip. The elderly man was rushed to the Jefferson Stratford Hospital and told the medical staff in complete dismay that he was about to buy a lottery ticket before his fall but never made it.
NBC 10 reported that one of the employees at the hospital felt sad for the man and invited him to join the 141 hospital staff members in the hospital lottery pool. Bobbie Mickle, Livingston's niece, told the news outlet: "He told them he was on his way to buy a lottery ticket and he was disappointed that he didn’t get it. So they said, 'Why don’t you go in with us? We’re also buying a lottery ticket'."