A North Carolina repairman has won $100,000 in the state's Education Lottery and has big plans for his winnings: better lunch meat. Joseph Greer, who worked as an appliance repairman for 40 years, said he is tired of eating thin bologna and now wants the thick variety.
Greer initially spent $50 on an $8 Million Money Maker ticket but lost. However, he entered the losing ticket into the lottery's second-chance drawing and won $100,000. After taxes, he took home $71,750. 'I about passed out,' Greer said in a lottery news release. 'It was pretty crazy.'
The second-chance drawing had 979,465 entries and offered one $1 million top prize, three $100,000 prizes, ten $25,000 prizes, and 50 $500 prizes. Greer's win came in the second of four such drawings.
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, Nicole Walter, a 42-year-old grandmother of ten and breast cancer survivor, won $2 million playing the online Monopoly Progressive Jackpots game. It is the largest prize ever awarded in Pennsylvania for that game. Walter plans to use the money to renovate a farmhouse she recently bought from a friend.
'I was playing PA Lottery games on my phone, and he was playing on his phone, and he said, 'Hey, I like the Monopoly one, let's try it,'' Walter said in a news release. 'Then my screen went blank and popped up $2 million. I was shocked — I didn't even say anything at first.'
