Lottery player hoped for win to take family trip. Then he saw ‘zero after zero’ in NC
Robert McLean wanted to take his family on a trip. Now, they are going on the trip of their dreams.
McLean, 63, bought a $20 scratch-off ticket from a North Carolina convenience store and took it home, he told lottery officials in a Feb. 13 new release. He put on “SportsCenter,” started scratching and got the shock of a lifetime.
“I started seeing zero after zero,” McLean told lottery officials. “It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life.”
Those zeros added up to a $100,000 prize, plenty for McLean to take his family to Tulum, Mexico.
“This is going to help me have a good time while I’m down there too,” he said.
He told lottery officials he shared the big win with his daughter.
“Once I heard that scream go off I knew she had seen it,” McLean said.
McLean took home $71,256 after tax withholdings and claimed one of 10 $100,000 prizes possible in the new 100X The Cash game from the North Carolina lottery.
McLean purchased the winning ticket in Greensboro, about 75 miles northwest of Raleigh.
