Man Who Survived Lightning Strike Wins Lottery
‘Very Unlikely’ doesn’t really do it justice.
The odds of being struck by lightning in Canada are less than one in a million.
The odds of winning the Atlantic Lotto are one in 14million.
And Peter McCathie has beaten odds of 2.6 trillion to one by doing both.
The Nova Scotia man survived the lightning strike while wading through the shallow waters of a lake aged 14, and this weekend collected $1million (£640,400) with a co-worker in the Atlantic Lottery.
CTV News Canada wanted to know just how unlikely this was, so they got in touch with University of Monckton mathematics professor Sophie Leger.
‘By assuming that these events happened independently… so probability of lotto… times another probability of lightning – since there are two people that got hit by lightning – we get approximately one in 2.6 trillion,’ she said.
Peter says he plans to take his wife on a second honeymoon with the money, while his co-winner Diana Miller says she is going to go to Cancun, Mexico.
The odds of being struck by lightning in Canada are less than one in a million.
The odds of winning the Atlantic Lotto are one in 14million.
And Peter McCathie has beaten odds of 2.6 trillion to one by doing both.
The Nova Scotia man survived the lightning strike while wading through the shallow waters of a lake aged 14, and this weekend collected $1million (£640,400) with a co-worker in the Atlantic Lottery.
CTV News Canada wanted to know just how unlikely this was, so they got in touch with University of Monckton mathematics professor Sophie Leger.
‘By assuming that these events happened independently… so probability of lotto… times another probability of lightning – since there are two people that got hit by lightning – we get approximately one in 2.6 trillion,’ she said.
Peter says he plans to take his wife on a second honeymoon with the money, while his co-winner Diana Miller says she is going to go to Cancun, Mexico.
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