Lottery winner kept looking at life-changing NC ticket. ‘I did a triple take’
A lottery winner scored a life-changing prize — and couldn’t stop checking his lucky ticket.
“I did a triple take to make sure it was right,” Bradley Groseclose told the North Carolina Education Lottery.
Groseclose was in disbelief when he learned he won $1 million. After getting richer, he plans to work on home renovations.
“This came at the perfect time,” the winner told lottery officials in an Aug. 15 news release.
Groseclose won big after he stopped at a Food Lion grocery store in Littleton, a roughly 70-mile drive northeast from Raleigh. While there, he spent $10 on a scratch-off ticket for the 50X the Cash game.
It turns out, he scored one of the game’s top prizes. He couldn’t wait to tell his wife how much his ticket was worth.
“I called her and asked if she was standing up,” Groseclose said. “I told her to sit down before I told her what happened.”
Groseclose, who lives in Raleigh, didn’t take his prize in annual payments. Instead, he opted for the $600,000 lump sum and kept $430,503 after taxes, according to officials.
It’s not the first time a lottery player has looked at their lucky ticket over and over again. Another North Carolina winner said he “had to keep checking it because it wasn’t registering,” McClatchy News reported in May.
