A Charlotte man turned a $20 scratch-off ticket into a $100,000 payday. | PxHere.com
A Charlotte man turned a $20 scratch-off ticket into a $100,000 payday. | PxHere.com
Charlotte’s Stephen Zick knows how to follow a hunch, and it paid off to the tune of $100,000.
Zick recently spent $20 on a scratch-off that turned out to be a big winner.
"I was ready to leave the store, but something just stopped me and told me to buy a ticket,” Zick said when he claimed his prize, according to NC Education Lottery.
He bought the ticket when he stopped by the Food Lion on Mt. Holly-Huntersville Road to get a few groceries for his sister.
“When I scratched it, I saw I won something, but it wasn't until I got home and my sister told me that I realized how much it was,” Zick told NC Education Lottery. “I thought she was kidding."
He collected his prize — $71,016 after federal and state tax withholding — at the state lottery headquarters earlier this week.
He said nothing is off-limits when it comes to what he will use his winnings for, but he has yet to make any decisions.
"All I know is I can get what I want,” he said, according to NC State Lottery.
It won’t all be for him, though, as Zick plans to share some money with his family and to make a donation to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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