North Carolina man wins lottery while celebrating wedding anniversary

A person in North Carolina received $100,000 within the lottery whereas he and his spouse have been celebrating their anniversary on the seashore. 

Kenneth Smith, 33, of Greensboro, North Carolina, purchased a $100 Million Mega Money scratch-off lottery ticket at a fuel station in Calabash, in accordance with the NC Training Lottery.

Smith informed the NC Training Lottery that he went to that exact retailer and purchased a lottery ticket primarily based on a good friend’s suggestion, a press launch stated. 

“We wouldn’t have identified about it if it hadn’t been for him,” Smith stated within the launch.

Smith, an actual property employee, was in Calabash together with his spouse – together with a few of their family and friends – to rejoice their second wedding ceremony anniversary.

After Smith received the $100,000 prize, he informed the NC Training Lottery that he took everybody out to breakfast. 

“I’ve at all times fantasized about profitable an enormous prize within the lottery,” Smith stated.

Smith informed the lottery group that he plans to make use of his winnings – which ended up being $71,016 after taxes – for house enhancements and a fence for his household’s new pet, a 9-week-old dachshund. 

Within the press launch, the NC Training Lottery stated that two $2 million prizes and 4 $100,000 prizes stay to be claimed from the $100 Million Mega Money recreation.