Car issue leads man to $100,000 lottery win
- By Web Desk -
- Sep 19, 2022
A man won $100,000 lottery with a ticket he bought from a general store where he stopped due to car troubles.
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A foreign news agency reported that the man from Missouri state in the United States told authorities he stopped at the store after his vehicle overheated.
He purchased a Fun 5s scratch-off ticket. He scratched it off and returned it to the shopkeeper for verification.
“She told me I won $100,000, and I was like, ‘Sweet mother, Jesus,'” he said. “I guess it was my day.”
The winner said he would use the winnings to get his vehicle replaced.
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It is pertinent to mention that people win thousands and millions overnight by trying their luck at the lottery.
Earlier, a cheeseburger lunch turned the fortunes of a North Carolina man as he became a millionaire by scratching a lottery ticket
Kevin Poole, an asphalt plant supervisor, had gone to lunch with his co-worker where he ordered a cheeseburger with onion rings and bought a lottery ticket for $30.
“After I finished eating my cheeseburger and onion rings, I scratched it,” Poole told the North Carolina Education Lottery.
The education lottery stated that it won him a $1 million prize. Poole kept $424,509 after-tax deduction.