Canadian 18-year-old wins $1G a week for life after buying first lotto ticket
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Charlie Lagarde celebrated her 18th birthday with a lotto ticket that turned out to be a gift worth $1,000 a week for life. (Loto Quebec)
A Canadian teenager, who bought her first-ever lottery ticket to celebrate turning 18 won $1,000 Canadian dollars a week for life.
Charlie Lagarde claimed her jackpot prize Monday with family and friends, The Toronto Star reported. She bought a bottle of champagne and the CA$4 scratch lottery ticket at a convenience store in mid-March, BBC reported.
After winning, she had the option of accepting a lump sum of CA$1m ($780,000) or earning CA$1,000 a week for life, the report said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Lagarde consulted with a financial adviser, and after a few weeks, she chose the CA$1,000 annuity.
"It's without taxes so it's equivalent to a salary of more than $100,000 a year, so it's a great start in life for that young lady," Patrice Lavoie, a spokesman for the lottery corporation, told The Star. "That was her first lottery ticket ever and she fell upon a winning ticket."
Lagarde said she wants to use the money for travel and her education.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I want to study photography,” she told Loto Quebec. “One of my dreams would be to work for National Geographic."