For anyone who has ever purchased, or more likely been purchased*, scratch cards it may come as a surprise to learn that somebody has won a sizeable amount of cash on one of them.
Like some sort of terrifying self-replicating virus, it has always seemed that the only thing it is ever possible to win on a scratch card is another free scratch card. Yet nay-sayers, doubters of the scratch card, join me in fetching a knife and fork, as I believe we have some words to eat.
A man, from Leitrim, has won €50,000 from a scratch card. The man in question is known as Kevin Boyle. Kevin Boyle is either a complicated holographic projection, created by the Scratch Card Industrial Complex as a front to falsely restore people's faith in the possibility of actually winning money through a scratch card, or he is, as the Leitrim Observer reports, a 27-year old resident from Aghacashel who has really won €50,000.
Speaking to the paper, in the National Lottery HQ 'Winner's Room' - which, I think we can all agree, is a name that the decor could only fail to live up to - while collecting his winnings in the form of an inconveniently large cheque, he said "I couldn't believe it. I nearly had a stroke. I had to drive straight home and get the father to double check it. I don't buy scratch cards to often, but the woman in front of me bought a scratch card and I said to the guys behind the counter to give me the same. And to think it was sitting in the car for four days! It's bizarre luck".
I think we can all agree that our envy of Mr. Boyle knows no bounds.
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H/T: Leitrim Observer
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*Perhaps by a distant aunt for Christmas?
