A man who found $20 on the ground used it to buy a $1 million winning lottery ticket
CBSN
A North Carolina resident hit the jackpot twice: First when he found $20 on the ground outside a convenience store, and a second time when he spent the money to buy a $25 winning scratch-off lottery ticket worth $1 million.
The man, Jerry Hicks of Banner Elk, North Carolina, told the state education lottery that he used the $20 he found outside the Speedway convenience store in Boone, North Carolina, to buy an Extreme Cash scratch-off card because the type of lotto ticket he usually buys wasn't available.
Hicks said he planned to use the winnings to retire after working for 56 years as a carpenter, as well as to help his children. He also had more immediate plans, telling the lottery, "We are going to head straight to Golden Corral and eat everything they've got."
