Biography of homeless man wins 500k

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Thieves buy winning €500,000 lottery ticket with stolen credit card

A man whose credit card was stolen and used to buy a winning lottery ticket is appealing for the thieves to come forward - so they can split the cash. 

The thieves bought a winning €500,000 (£414,000) scratchcard with the stolen card in the French city of Toulouse.

But the ticket has not been submitted to claim the prize.

The victim of the theft, identified in police documents as Jean-David E, had his backpack containing his bank card stolen from his car earlier this month.

He asked his bank to block it but learned his card had already been used in a local shop, where two apparently homeless men had used it to buy a winning scratch card.

"They were so totally happy that they forgot their cigarettes and their belongings and walked out like crazy people," Jean-David's lawyer Pierre Debuisson said.

He said Jean-David has filed a police complaint about the theft, but is ready to withdraw it if the thieves come forward so that they can share the money.

"It's an incredible story, but it's all true," he added.

The lawyer launched a national appeal on Thursday, asking the thieves to contact his office to make a deal.

"Without them, no one would have won," he told public broadcaster France-2.

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A homeless man’s luck turned on a dime, with a scratch-off lottery ticket winning him a half-million dollars.

Michael Engfors had been homeless for six years when he bought the ticket Friday at a grocery store in the skiing resort city of Aspen, Colorado — the town where he’s lived all his life.

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Before winding up on the streets, he’d lost his business, gone through a divorce, and struggled with alcoholism.

He wants to use the money to reconnect with a daughter he hasn’t seen in 20 years, get a place to live, and — since it’s Aspen — buy a new pair of skis.

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