Technician scores big in North Carolina lottery. ‘Couldn’t have come at a better time’
A technician had a longtime dream of hitting the jackpot — then he finally did in North Carolina.
“It couldn’t have come at a better time,” winner Robert Fuller said in a news release. “I want to go on a nice vacation with my family.”
Fuller, 43, hopes to take the big trip after his Powerball ticket matched enough numbers to be worth $100,000, according to the N.C. Education Lottery.
“I kept reading it over and over again to make sure it was real,” Fuller told officials.
Fuller’s win was the real deal, and it came after he went online to buy a lottery ticket for the Feb. 9 drawing. Officials said he spent $3 but ended up winning much more in the Powerball game.
“I always thought I would win some day,” Fuller said in the news release. “It feels like I am dreaming.”
Fuller — who works as an assembly technician — kept $71,011 after taxes. He lives in Lexington, a Davidson County city known for barbecue and roughly 25 miles south of Winston-Salem.
Fuller isn’t the first winner who had to give a North Carolina lottery ticket another glance.
In October, officials said a man got out his glasses to double check his lucky ticket — but didn’t believe he had won until he got the prize money.
Also in North Carolina, family members who played the lottery together were in disbelief after winning $2 million, McClatchy News reported in July.
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