Methuen Man Splits One Million Dollar Lottery Winnings With Friend

These past few years have been tough for us all, and when Eric Cochrane’s son broke his guitar, he couldn't afford to fix it. This broke his heart, for his son's guitar gave him so much joy. His son had a health problem that week. He took it to his friend John's guitar shop to see if he could fix it for him. When Eric tried to offer him a little bit of money in exchange for the repairs, John Galvin refused to take any money from his friend and fixed it for free. Eric decided that if his friend was not going to accept money, he would go down to the local convenient store and buy some lottery tickets. If he were to win anything, they would split the winnings.

And so he did! Eric won one million dollars off of his "$10,000,000 Winter Riches” instant ticket. The ticket was purchased at Howe Street Superette in Methuen on April 15th. Eric and John are splitting the winnings, and I think both of them would agree, that a little bit of kindness can go a long way. (Like a really long way, a million dollars to be exact).

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$10,000 is a lot of money, and we don't know about you, but we often wonder what we could buy with that kind of money! Ever wonder how many times you could fill up your gas tank, though these days it is not as many times as you would think:(... or how many beers you could buy at Gillette Stadium with that amount of cash? Here is a fun list of the things you could do with $10,000!

At about $98 per average ticket, you could buy about 102 tickets. Go Sox!

Gas prices are at an all-time high these days. It is even getting expensive to fill up a small 12-gallon tank, at about $4.34 per gallon, it costs about $52 to fill up a small tank of gas.

Baseball season is just around the corner, and we are excited for our Fenway Franks! At $5.25 per dog, you can buy about 1,905 hot dogs.

At about $900 a night, for a garden view room, you could stay there ten nights.

$10,000 can buy you 833 large premium drafts at Gillette Stadium (about $12 per beer).

At $49 per adult ticket, you could go on the duck tour 204 times with.

The average lobster roll in New England is around $35. This would get you 286 delicious lobby rolls.

We all know and love the classic cape cod bracelet with the silver band and  14k gold ball in the middle. At $160, you could buy 62 of these New England favorites.

We are all going through TONS of hand sanitizer these days. Lucky for you, $10,000 you could buy 690 liters of Purell!

If you have not tried the Italian sandwich from Monica's Mercato & Salumeria in the North End, run don't walk there. These place is one of the best places to get a sandwich in all of Massachusetts, and for $10,000, you could buy 555 of these!

Cape cod beaches charge $20 to park at the beach on weekends from Memorial Day to Labor day. With $10,000 you could have 500 glorious beach days.

At $8 a cup, you can buy yourself 1,250 cups of chowdah from Legal Seafoods. This seems like a pretty good way to spend your money.

At $11.69, per six pack you could have yourself a party and buy 855 six packs of Boston's favorite beer.

Have you all heard about the hair tool that is so amazing that woman are actually spending over $500 on this styling device? Well, you could buy 18 of them with $10,000.

Trader Joes two-buck chuck, the signature Charles Shaw wine, goes for about three dollars, at most Trader Joes.