Associated Press
YAKIMA — Bob Dole might have taken the tickets, but Andrew Benson decided he’d rather have $475 in cash than see teen pop queen Britney Spears in concert.
Andrew, 13, twisted off the cap from a bottle of Pepsi on Tuesday and discovered he had won four tickets to a Spears concert and $200 in spending money.
"I don’t really like Britney Spears," said Andrew, a seventh-grader at the Yakama Tribal School near Toppenish. His taste runs more to rap artists.
So he called the toll-free number on the cap and traded in the prizes for $475, which he plans to share with his nine brothers and sisters and four cousins.
His mother, Yvonne Benson, will pitch in another $25, so he can start with an even $500.
Andrew said he felt lucky after he spent $1 on a Pepsi at the school store.
"This might be a winner," he recalled telling his friends.
There are 4,800 bottle caps offering tickets to Spears’ Summer 2002 Tour concerts, and the odds of winning are 1-in-51,163, according to PepsiCo.
Both former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole and Spears have appeared in advertisements for Pepsi.
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