DDO man sues for 7-second late lotto ticket

A very unlucky Dollard man is taking Loto-Quebec to court.

Back in May, Joel Ifergan bought two Super 7 lotto tickets. He bought them at 8:59 pm. All good. The deadline is 9 o'clock.

But the tickets don't come out instantaneously. They take a few seconds to process. Ifergan's second ticket spit out of the machine at 9 o'clock and 7 seconds, and because of that, it was for the following draw.

If only it was for the draw he was actually buying for, because his numbers won.

The draw was for $27-million. There was another winner, though, so he would've won half -- $13½-million, and that's how much he's suing for.

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