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Sunday, June 9, 2002

Pit Bull Leads Man to £3.4 Million

CUMBRIA (UK) — Next time your pooch wants to drag you off in some strange direction, you'd better pay attention; it just may lead to a pot of gold.

Last week's Lotto winner would never have won, had it not been for his dog's inexplicable behavior outside a shop in Cumbria.  David Little, 42, says he only bought the winning ticket after his Staffordshire "Neo" stopped outside the store and refused to budge until he got a treat.


"£3.4 Million?  Who cares...
Just give me those biscuits you promised!"

David Little and Neo pose outside the shop that made them into millionaires.

Mr. Little, a sheet metal worker from Carlisle, got the message to enter the newsagent's and buy Neo some biscuits, and at the same time he received a strange (telepathic?) urge to purchase a Lotto ticket.

That very ticket netted him £3,462,775 (about $5 million USD) with the numbers 19, 26, 30, 34, 40 and 44 in last Wednesday's draw.

"If it wasn’t for Neo taking me in that shop I wouldn’t have hit the jackpot," Mr. Little says.  "He has changed my life forever."

Until now, the high-spirited terrier has been known for his less-productive pursuits, such as destroying things.  Mr. Little surmises: "Pulling me into the newsagent's was probably his way of saying sorry for chewing all the furniture."

The Sun reports that the divorced dad, who has a two-bedroom terraced house in Carlisle, Cumbria, will build a new dream home to share with his two-year-old dog.

He adds: “Neo can have his own three-piece suite to destroy rather than mine.”

 

The funny thing is that I experienced the same exact phenomenon while walking Scoop Senior Editor "Wags" yesterday.  I, too, bought a ticket for tonight's jackpot drawing, and I hear it's up to 10 million!

Now where did I put that golden ticket—?

No!  Wags!  Bad!  Bad Senior Editor!!

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Sources


"3.4M Reasons Why Neo the Dog is This Man's Best Friend"
Daily Record
7 Jun 2002

"It's a dog's life for lotto winner"
BBC News
6 Jun 2002

PERRIE, ROBIN
"Winalotto dog jackpot"
The Sun
7 Jun 2002


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